Tag: post natal depression

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020anxiety, attention, attention-seeking, attunement, basic need, busyness, change, communication, community, education, emotions, family, family time, feelings, Holiday, individuality, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, perseverance, positivity, post natal depression, seasonal, self-care, socializing, talking, tiredness, try, work

Whatever next?

I have been reminded this week of the importance of journeying through parenthood with others.  It’s something I’ve mentioned before (maybe on […]

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019attachment, attention, attention-seeking, change, communication, family, family time, guilt, love, mental health, mother, Parenting, patience, positivity, post natal depression, seasonal, self-care, stress, try, work, work/life balance

Mum Guilt

Earlier this year I heard someone answer the question “what would you do differently in life” as follows: “ I’d fill it […]

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019Activity, body, community, Exercise, family, family time, Food, Health, Nutrition, mental health, mother, Outdoors, Parenting, patience, positivity, post natal depression, postnatal depression, pregnancy, running, self-care, socializing, stress, talking

Run Mummy Run!

“Not enough time”, “no inclination/motivation”, “too tired”, “no childcare”, “not sure what to do”.  These may sound familiar.  Fitting exercise in as […]

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019anxiety, body, change, community, family, mental health, mother, nap, Outdoors, Parenting, patience, positivity, post natal depression, postnatal depression, pregnancy, self-care, sleep, sleep deprivation, socializing, stress, tiredness, try

Sweet Dreams

“I love sleep.  My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway Anyone else feel like […]

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019Activity, adventure, anxiety, attachment, birth, body, communication, community, education, Exercise, family, Food, Health, Nutrition, labour, mental health, mother, Outdoors, Parenting, post natal depression, postnatal depression, pregnancy, self-care, stress, Uncategorized

Don’t stop movin’

Our bodies are the texts that carry the memories and therefore remembering is no less than reincarnation – Katie Cannon (p. 184) […]

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019birth, community, Exercise, Food, Health, Nutrition, mental health, mother, Parenting, post natal depression, pregnancy, self-care, socializing

You’re Beautiful

Our bodies are extraordinary concepts.  Our minds are even more staggering.  Yet, however detached we may feel from one or the other […]

May 3, 2019May 1, 2019attachment, Exercise, mental health, mother, Outdoors, post natal depression, self-care

Picture Perfect

Today marks the end of maternal mental health week and the focus for today is positivity. When I was at university I […]

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019attachment, mental health, mother, Parenting, post natal depression

We’re all in this together

I was going to be setting the second of the two Easter holiday challenges today but I didn’t wake up in such […]

December 5, 2018January 20, 2019Uncategorized

What’s love got to do?

Love.  What a word.  What a powerful, complicated, loaded, and excruciatingly important word.  But what is it all about?  Why love? Stop […]

May 28, 2018May 28, 2018Uncategorized

Pinks and Blues

If you’re a mummy you’ve probably heard it being said, but you didn’t need to. You’ve already worked it out for yourself; […]