Category: * Self care and Growth *

A leap of faith

This is never how I saw my story unfolding. I was a ‘one marriage, I do forever’ kind of girl… until I realised that didn’t fit anymore. I never imagined...

5 ways to turn around a ‘down day’

We all have ‘those days’ – days when nothing goes right, when you are overwhelmed and overwrought, when you wake up with a serious case of the ‘mehs’. For years...

6 ways to quell the anxiety

I know too well the awful feeling of anxiety. For years I struggled to keep it under control, endless days with my stomach a ball of knots, unable to eat...

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...

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,...

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...