5 tips to protect your mental health in lockdown
Hello loves, how are we all doing? After several weeks of lockdown, emotions are all over the place and we are all feeling the strain. We are not designed to...
Category: * Self care and Growth *
Lockdown, productivity and staying sane.
If we choose to see this time we have as a gift, a time when we are safe at home not stuck at home, we can change how we feel...
Rediscovering what we’d lost sight of
These are strange times. There is fear and anxiety around us. Yet we still have the choice whether to let them dominate or whether to focus on the good. To...
Little ways to help yourself heal
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...
What I learned from some lost photos
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...
Loving our Postpartum Bodies
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 –...
13 mantras to boost your self-worth
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,...
I’m no super{wo}man
Five kids. One house. Four cats. A dog. Homeschooling. Schooling. Self-employment. Family life. Kids commitments…. One single Mama. It sounds a recipe for chaos, and truthfully, sometimes there is. Yet...
Support your Mental Health – 5 simple steps to help
I remember times when I was in the midst of a bout of depression, or my anxiety was sky high, desperately wishing for support from someone. What I wanted was...
Finding healing with forgiveness
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to...
Twenty Twenty Goals
A New Year is my favourite time to set some goals. I prefer goals to resolutions as they feel more positive. I’ve been thinking about what I want this year...
Separating feelings from yourself – 8 ways to help
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better...
A guiding word for 2020
Apart from last year, I’ve been choosing a guiding word each New Year for the last decade. It helps me to focus on the year ahead as a whole, it...
7 Mantra’s to cling to when you’ve lost hope
There have been countless nights when I been crying hysterically, lying on one floor or another. There have been far more times than I could count when I have been...
Be kind to yourself Mama
One thing I’ve learned over my sixteen years of parenting is that I have to remember to be kinder to myself. Especially when I’m pregnant and have just had a...