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The Great Mental Unload Starts Here
The great mental unload. We’ve talked about the mental load a lot. We need to reduce it. But how do we start? It seems such an...
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The Nourish Blog
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Helping mums navigate the emotions and struggles of motherhood and find more connection, compassion & calm.
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Simple self-care when you have ZERO TIME
It can be hard at the best of times to squeeze in nourishing practices but when we need it the most that’s when it can feel literally...
3 tips for coping with an early start
Being wrenched from sleep by our kids - a challenge mums know too well! When your day feels exhausting before you've even opened your...
Mandy Rees
- 4 min
5 New Year, no-guilt, self-care 'strategies', NOT resolutions!
The New Year often brings with it a pressure to try and reinvent ourselves and set ourselves (often unrealistic) resolutions. But what if...
Top Twixmas Treats 🎁 7 essential meditations to help parents restore and reboot ready for 2022
It’s been one hell of a year. No sorry, 2 years! Many of us have not had a proper holiday to restore and recharge in what seems like...
How to stay in your lane this Christmas
As we approach another Christmas season it’s helpful to remember that while life has opened up, we are still very much in the midst of a...
Laura Abba
- 4 min
3 reasons why your idea of motherhood is not near your reality
What we know about how we live, is that our minds are always searching for ways to keep us alive. And it takes our past experiences as...
Simple Strategies to Dial Down Worry
We live in worrying times and while anxiety is a very normal response to the current uncertainty we find ourselves in - yet again (!), we...
Dr Caroline Boyd
- 5 min
Mum Rage & the Mental Load – What Helps?
Feeling stressed? Exhausted and irritable? Raging silently? If the answer to any of these is Yes, then you may also be wondering how...
Mandy Rees
- 3 min
Five ways to embrace your Great Mother energy
Every mother has a power within her - a deep intuition and wisdom that makes her soul sing and heart ache in equal measure during...
Your 3 Step Plan to Uncertainty
In the midst of all this great change and uncertainty, we need a plan! Even when there is so much outside of our control there are always...
How to grow into motherhood and be the best version of you
Motherhood - every aspect of our lives fundamentally change and in some ways we no longer feel aligned to who we where before that...
Your 5 Minute Visualisation Escape
Join Sophie Burch today for this gentle guided visualisation to the top of a hill. Enjoy the feeling of space and calm as you gaze out...
Diana Spellman
- 4 min
Does your home cause you mess stress?
Back in the Summer of 2019, my mess stress had reached a point where I knew something had to change. I resented all the time I was...
Your 2-minute Mind Break
Sometimes it can be hard to think straight because the mind is racing so fast, we have so much going on. Try this short, grounding...
Nicky Lowe
- 6 min
The epidemic of stress for working mothers and the three things you can do about it
It shouldn’t surprise me but it does. I still find it hard to read the latest statistics about stress for working mothers, despite having...
Chloe Bedford
- 4 min
Why therapy isn’t always the answer
Such a controversial idea, especially from a psychologist! I know! I often hear that people have been told to access therapy by those...
Dr Fionnuala Barton
- 4 min
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...
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...
Lucy Higgins
- 5 min
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...
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