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Mantras to help you honour your boundaries
It is all too easy for our needs, our wants and our desires to get pushed right to the bottom of the pile and we all know how toxic...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


Menopause anxiety as a mum and menopause doctor (+ symptom checker)
Trees stood tall above me casting long shadows, the sound of the twigs snapping underfoot echoed, my skin felt cold and clammy and my...
Dr Fionnuala Barton
4 min read


3 Steps to Recover from a Stressful School Run
How many times a week do you find yourself stressed out by the morning routine and school run? All 5 weekdays?? I had a particularly...
Sara Campin, Founder of Nourish
1 min read


Finding motherhood hard isn’t your fault and how to empower yourself
Working with women who are mothers I feel privileged to have a front row seat into their inner world. The added pressures that mothers...
Lucy Higgins
5 min read


What is emotional health and how do we boost it?
While it’s nice to feel happy, pressure to be happy is far from healthy and can genuinely add to our burden. Rather than a perpetual good...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


How to change your “core scripts” for more harmony for you and your fizzy kids
Do you have those days when you are standing at the bottom of the stairs hollering at your child ‘How DARE you talk to me like that!’ Or...
Ali Fanshawe
4 min read


The 3am thought spiral… how to combat night time over thinking.
We’ve all been there, baby now soundly asleep, partner slumbering peacefully, there’s nothing required of us…. and still we can’t turn...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


The cornerstone of mental health for mothers is self-care: 5 ways to make yourself a priority
Being a mother is the best reason you’ll ever have to take care of yourself. It’s important to nourish yourself in order to pour that...
Charlotte Lewis
3 min read


Your 5 Minute Escape - on a relaxing train journey
Join Sophie Burch today for this gentle guided visualisation setting off on a wonderful train journey. These moments for you give you the...
kellynealeva
1 min read


Finding my feet as September sweeps in big changes for me and my family
I feel lost. What am I supposed to do now? Primary school beckons my baby and I feel my role shifting and changing. There’s an empty...
Emily Mills
3 min read


Tips for a calmer start to the school day
Getting the kids out the door on school days is a challenge for every parent, but there are things we can do to promote collective...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


Does motherhood mean happiness and how to stay positive
At this moment of the year, with the inevitable big emotions flying around the house and peak stress, happiness may seem like a long way...
Nourish
7 min read


Practical ways to boost resilience
We’re all on board when it comes to resilience – we get how important it is and we are motivated to develop our capacity to bounce back,...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


Confidence Boosts For An Autumnal Return To Work
For many mums, September still glistens with that ‘new page of the jotter’ feeling that we had when WE were at school. Only now, we send...
Lucy Orton
4 min read


3 Ways to Cope in the Moment
Life and parenting is full of tricky times and difficult moments. Whilst we can't always stop the storms from blowing, we can equip...
Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist
1 min read


Top 10 tips to prepare for the start of the school year
It’s that time of year again - where change is hanging in the air. The mutterings in the playgrounds are all about uniform and school...
Sara Campin, Founder of Nourish
5 min read


Why self-care is hard and how to make it easier
We all have the same 24-hours per day to work with, but we don’t all have the same responsibilities. So how do we fulfil each of the...
Yvonne Bignall
4 min read


What is yoga nidra and how does it help? An interview with Sara Johnson
Can you tell us a bit about what yoga nidra is and how it helps mums? Yoga Nidra is such a tonic; it promotes the deepest kind of rest...
Sara Johnson
6 min read


Summer Holidays Yoga with Children
Tune in today for this calming yoga session with Libby Stevenson. This is one you can do with the kids and is perfect for the summer...
Libby Stevenson
1 min read


Summer Family Food: How to avoid overdosing on sandwiches when you have small children!
Do you ever find that summer menus for the children look like sandwiches, sandwiches and more sandwiches? While during term time I'd...
Dot Zacharias, Sleep & Yoga Nidra Coach
6 min read
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