February, 2020 - Polly Jemima

Feeling Perpetually Tired? 3 Tips to Help You Reset and Find Your Balance

February 28, 2020

There are days when you will feel tired, especially after working so hard, but that tiredness should go away after some rest. If you are continually tired, this should be a cause for concern. However, note that in most cases, tiredness is not a sign of a serious issue in your life. It’s mostly as...

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6 baby items that you actually need!

February 27, 2020

If you look at baby magazines or websites, you’ll end up with a huge list of ‘essentials’… things that supposedly you can’t live without once you have a newborn. The truth is, babies don’t need an awful lot. A few vests and babygrows, nappies, a pair of arms… all babies need is to be fed...

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Oren Sage Malachi – 8 Month Update

February 25, 2020

Happy Eight Months! Time is flying far too fast, and he is getting so big! He’s not quite mobile, but pulling himself up a lot, and if you leave him sitting somewhere he can shuffle quite a bit to get where he wants to be. He wants to be on his feet, holding fingers and...

ADVICE, BLOG

Little ways to help yourself heal

February 24, 2020

As I talked about in my post ‘5 ways to support yourself‘, it is vital to put your support in yourself, to learn how to take care of yourself and build yourself up. Only YOU can be the savior of you. Here are 15 little ways to help yourself heal Stand in front of the...

ADVICE, BLOG, FAMILY, INSPIRATION

What I learned from some lost photos

February 24, 2020

On Saturday my phone told me it needed to do a system update, having done them hundreds of times before, I clicked update, thinking nothing of it. Half an hour later, the update was all done, but when I picked my phone up, a box kept popping up every couple of seconds to tell me...

ADVICE, BLOG, INSPIRATION

Loving our Postpartum Bodies

February 20, 2020

Before I became a Mama I never gave thought to what my body would look like post-partum. I guess I just presumed it would ping straight back into shape – the media aways showed us these perfect looking celebrities who had given birth and looked like they’d never even been pregnant. So when I gave...

BLOG, JOURNAL

Coming home to me

February 19, 2020

“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.” Charlotte Eriksson In the last few months I’ve felt more me than I ever have. I feel like a whole differnet person. I hunkered down for the last eighteen months, trying to survive an abusive relationship, deal with the...

ADVICE, BLOG

13 mantras to boost your self-worth

February 17, 2020

I’m the worst at negative self-talk, or rather I should say I was the worst. For most of my life the voice in my head was a very negative one, giving a constant commentary on everything that I was doing wrong. It would put me down at every opportunity. The problem with negative self-talk is...

Month: February 2020