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Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

Loneliness in motherhood: ways to embrace vulnerability & find meaningful connection

Life After Birth: a real account of the transition to motherhood after birth trauma

It’s OK not to find parenthood blissful (dealing with shame)

Mum Rage & the Mental Load – What Helps?

Finding motherhood hard isn’t your fault and how to empower yourself

Sleep deprivation, desperation and self-care

Bex’s maternity-leave diary and her response, one year later...

Why Being Highly Sensitive Could Actually Be Your Superpower

Charlotte Lewis

5 min

Why Being Highly Sensitive Could Actually Be Your Superpower

Do you often feel too sensitive for the world around you? Overwhelmed in crowded spaces or loud environments or easily affected by other...

The Uncomfortable Truth About The Gender Wellbeing Gap

Nicky Lowe

4 min

The Uncomfortable Truth About The Gender Wellbeing Gap

You're probably aware of the Gender Pay Gap. But are you familiar with the Gender Wellbeing Gap? The statistics on the Gender Wellbeing...

Hayley Thomson

4 min

5 Ways to Manage Mum-Overwhelm

Motherhood can be overwhelming at the best of times, right? I find myself saying it all the time, ‘Ugh, I just feel so overwhelmed, if...

5 yogic breaths to keep your family calm and in control

sarajanecampin

4 min

5 yogic breaths to keep your family calm and in control

Have you ever instructed a tantruming child to calm down? Or maybe you can see your child is on the edge of a break down it but don’t...

How to ease anxiety through the power of touch

Dr Erica Bowen

4 min

How to ease anxiety through the power of touch

I’ve battled with anxiety since I was a child. It wasn’t until I had my son, nearly 14 years ago however that I was ‘treated’, through...

Why “Work-life Balance” isn’t the Holy Grail we seem to think it is…

Nicki Young

4 min

Why “Work-life Balance” isn’t the Holy Grail we seem to think it is…

What is Balance Anyway? For as long as I can remember, we working mums have been trying to achieve the “Holy Grail” of work-life balance....

People pleasing in Motherhood, and how to set yourself free!

Tamsin Williamson, The Parent Coach

4 min

People pleasing in Motherhood, and how to set yourself free!

How often do you find yourself…. …saying YES to others when in your heart you mean NO? …spending time with people who don’t bring out...

15 Ways to find pockets of positivity, even in tricky times

Nourish

6 min

15 Ways to find pockets of positivity, even in tricky times

From the safety of the UK, it is hard to even imagine the fear, pain and tragedy that so many Ukrainians are experiencing right now. Our...

Diana Spellman

4 min

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...

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...

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...

7 Tips for a Calmer Start to the School Day

Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist

1 min

7 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...

How to create a more playful family home

Suzy Mizrahi, Development Psychologist

4 min

How to create a more playful family home

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing" - George Bernard SHAW Do you believe in magic? One of...

Getting to Know Your Thyroid: Why feeling overwhelmed might be about more than just being a mum

Thalia Pellegrini, Registered Nutritionist MBANT

5 min

Getting to Know Your Thyroid: Why feeling overwhelmed might be about more than just being a mum

Women are amazing: I believe they hold up the world. Unfortunately, they are not always so amazing when it comes to paying attention to...

Suzy Reading, Wellbeing Psychologist

5 min

7 Simple Strategies to Combat Overwhelm

Have you noticed the overwhelm rising? Check out these 7 simple strategies to combat the overwhelm and support yourself during this time.