The Art of Being a Calm Mum

Nobody warns you that getting calmer can make you feel worse before it makes you feel better.

I found this out sitting in my car.

I'd just finished the school run, the kind of day that looks complet...

Five years after leaving my marriage as a single mum, I made the leap to move in with my partner. Last week, something happened that triggered me more than I have been in a long time.

On this particu...

The mess will continue to be there whether I clean it or not.

I used to feel like the second my kids left the house, whether at school or with their dad, that was my window to catch up. Clean the kit...

This month, I finally took the plunge and moved in with my partner of three years. It is a momentous occasion where we are finally coming together; my two boys and his daughter, together as a family. ...

Before I was a mum, I had a lot of opinions about motherhood.

One of them was this absolute gem: "There is no way I am going to rearrange my whole life for my kids."

Oh, how I cringe now.

If those ...

Do you ever wonder why you go from 0-100 in a split second when you are with your kids?

It feels like you are starting from 0, but the truth is you could be anywhere from 90 upwards before you reach ...

I'm going to be honest with you.

This week has been hard.

Not hard in a "busy but managing it" kind of way. Hard in a "I have nothing left" kind of way.

I'm burnt out. And for a little while I did ...

There are moments in life that stop you in your tracks.

Not the big dramatic ones you can see coming. The quiet ones. The ones that creep up on you when you're already running on empty.

Mine came in...

This time last week, I was sitting in my car with tears streaming down my face.

School refusal. Both boys. At the same time. It was a lot.

Today I’m sitting in my car again. Same car, same school ru...

I've been taking a bit of a trip down memory lane lately. And it got me thinking a lot about some of the challenges I faced when I first became a single mum.

I was on my own, in the middle of COVID, ...

Just the idea of creating some space as a mum can be overwhelming, let alone actually making it happen. You are already carrying an invisible load and what? Now you somehow have to find time to fill y...

This morning I caught up with a friend for coffee and we got talking about this process of normalising what is happening in our life.

For her it was in relation to overcommitting in her business and ...