On Friday I decided to make a small change. I decided to walk to nursery rather than drive. It may seem super easy but normally, in my head, my time is so tight that I don’t allow myself the extra 20 mins each way as I think what can do in that child free time. But […]
I’m back to work today after a couple of weeks off. I think this is almost the first time in a year I’ve actually taken a big chunk of time off and really rested. Like so many others we were plagued by viruses but it was such a good excuse to do little and also […]
If you’ve been following me on instagram or social media recently, you will have seen a theme…. that is about prioritising your needs over the ever growing list of jobs to do and REST. I was already writing a newsletter on the theme of REST when I got this in an email from an old […]
I recently wrote a post about working with your future self. The task was to help you think about life without any of the day to day symptoms that you might feel (anxiety, bored, overwhelmed, stressed out, procrastinating). Part of the exercise was to start identifying how that future you was different to you today. […]
When I ask women… how would life be if you didn’t feel anxious/stressed/fearful/fed up….. Many of them reply with… “I don’t know”….. It’s hard to imagine how life would be if they didn’t feel anxious, stressed, busy, worried or something else all the time. They don’t know how a day would look like if they […]
All over my social media for the last few days I’ve watched that clip of Meghan Markle documenting publicly what so many mums go through. I am so sorry that she’s had to go through this so publicly. It’s the epitome of vulnerability and it’s something we could all take lessons from in a number […]
Last week I wrote all about failure and about how we give ourselves a really hard time as mums specifically around failure and how we’re so good at focusing in on failure. This week I was keen to cover why failure can actually be a good thing. It’s a really helpful thing to happen […]
I’ve been busy back at work over the last week now that the kids are finally back and school and well (whoop whoop) . There’s a real recurring theme with my clients around failure – and a sense of failure when we haven’t achieved perceived perfection. We give ourselves such a hard time around failure. […]
The last week has been fairly chaotic for us and without a doubt has really pushed us with all the various elements that parenting can bring and…. norovirus can bring. Added in to that was birthdays, back to school for us and my increased working hours. It ended up that the norovirus timed itself perfectly […]
Last Tuesday I went to see psychotherapist and author Philippa Perry as part of the Edinburgh Book festival. I don’t know if you’ve read her book, “The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and your children will be glad that you did)”? It’s probably one of the only parenting books I recommend at the […]
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