Sanity
Haters gonna hate
This week I almost let something get to me. I found out that someone very close to me, who has been a real champion of what I’m doing actually has pretty different and scathing opinions about it which they’re liberally spreading when I’m not there. I’ve received hate before, but
A toolkit: what to do when the life balance is off
Over the past year, I’ve spoken to hundreds of mums. We’re all different. But at times, it seems, we all have one thread in common; no matter who we are, where we come from or whether we work or don’t. We all experience times when life balance eludes us. When the
Why I’m no longer an after-thought
How much time do you get to spend doing things you love? The things that set your soul on fire, or make you feel as though you’re right where you should be? A couple of years ago, in spite of having built a life purposefully and been lucky enough to
“But mummy…I’m going to be so sad when you leave me.”
I still feel sick now. A couple of hours have passed since the door shut at the pre-school, with me on one side and my son on the other. As a metaphor that’s the most unnatural situation I can think of right now. I have a child who suffers separation
The playgroup life-savers
At the weekend I bumped into a mum whose daughter used to go to Xav’s preschool. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, and we got chatting about the work I’m doing through Mumbelievable to support mums. One of the biggest privileges for me since starting all of this
Mental wealth
You might know that recently I decided to open up about my eating disorder and mental health history by publishing a series of posts about my recovery. I was petrified of making myself so vulnerable, feeling sick and shaking as I wrote and my heart beat thumped in my temples
Five things that erode our confidence as mums and what we can do about it
Last week I had a bit of a mini-meltdown and ended up sobbing down the phone to Tim, my husband about how I was literally, catastrophically failing at life. A tad melodramatic, maybe…but that was 100% how I felt right then. My plate-spinning confidence was on the floor (along with
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My mission: to help a million mums feel the way they deserve to
Here it is. My public declaration. All this work I’ve been doing around confidence among mums has shocked and saddened me more than I was prepared for. But it’s also ignited a fire in me that has given me purpose. I can’t just do nothing when so many mums feel
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