Pelvic floor meditation

Meditation. That word stresses lots of us out. I can't meditate, my mind is too busy. I don't have time to meditate.  Sometimes there are just too many 'shoulds' beating down our doors so we forget that actually, we do have time we just choose not to use it for our own positive benefit. Think …

You’ve got this mamas! The Supermum Myth event in Norwich

You know those days with a small (or even slightly large) baby when you just think, actually it's so much of a palaver getting out of the house, managing last minute poo explosions, potential scream-fests (yours or baby's??), forgotten dummies, lost packets of wipes...some days it just all seems too much and so you opt …

Let’s Talk Miscarriage

Today I went to a wonderful Gathering of Tribes event at Emma Cannon's Chelsea clinic to commemorate Baby Loss Awareness Week. Emma Cannon is an acupuncture and women's health and fertility expert, and someone who I've long admired and turned to in times of confusion and chaos on the fertility journey. She has featured in …

Diastasis whatsi? How to get rid of the “mum tum”

I was in two minds about the heading "get rid of" the mum tum because I'm all about celebrating and embracing mum hood and all its weird and wonderful remnants in your body and soul. The lovely Beccy Hands, doula and massage therapist and co-founder of the maternal nurturing package The Mother Box (hint hint, …

Wake up Mama! – Energy Boosters

Happy Bank Holiday! Remember May bank holidays before children? Usually involved lots of sunny Sunday drinking in beer gardens, languidly cutting loose in an act of sheer abandon as there was no alarm clock to wake you up the next day. Yep. No more. This morning I had a 5am starter – although, framing it …

Series: What’s in your toolkit? 4 – Suzy Reading: Part 1

I first connected with Suzy on Instagram last year, when I sensed a kindred spirit in her posts, an understanding of the relentless pressure of modern motherhood and life, and a tendency of all of us to slip down our own lists of priorities while we juggle the day to day. Suzy's instagram feed is …

Series: What’s in your toolkit 3 – Emma Cannon

Emma Cannon is a fertility expert, author,  natural conception and IVF support acupuncture practitioner, and has been supporting women in their fertility journeys for many years. I had the great fortune to work on Emma Cannon's first book, The Baby-Making Bible, when I was working for the health and wellbeing publisher Rodale at Macmillan, in 2008. Liz …

Finding Mama’s Mojo

This week is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. I'll be starting an exciting new series tomorrow on the blog: getting to know some of my favourite wellness and psychology experts, asking them how they keep their mojo topped up day to day while juggling life, work, kids, relationships. What tools do you …

Who’s that girl?

The subject of identity keeps poking its little head out of mouse holes at me a lot recently. The idea of who we are once we've had children: are we a mother first, usurping all our previous endeavours? And does motherhood define and top everything we do subsequently? I was tagged to complete a 20 …

Things I’ve learnt

Freddie is now 2 years old. 2 YEARS OLD. Well, 2 and a quarter, if we're being pedantic. I’ve learnt that with a 5 year old and a toddler you don’t get much “done” except doing life day to day, so your goal posts have to shift, your expectations have to soften. As John Lennon said, …