Sometimes motherhood feels loud.
The mental load. The overstimulation. The constant decisions. The thoughts we carry long after everyone else has gone to bed.
Taking care of ourselves is often the first thing to slip, yet it's the very thing that helps us show up with patience, presence and perspective.
This is a place to breathe a little deeper, protect your peace, and leave feeling just a little lighter.
Permission to slow down, protect your peace and make space for yourself again.
A place to let go of the thoughts you've been carrying and remember you don't have to hold everything alone.
Movement, mindfulness and practical wellbeing resources to help you feel more like yourself again.
Sometimes, there are hard things we just need to say. A thought we’ve been carrying. Something we’re struggling with, grieving, questioning or finding hard to admit. The Mother’s Diaries is a place to put it down and let us share the weight of it with you. You might feel a little lighter for having said it, and another mother might find your words and realise she isn’t the only one who feels that way.
Sometimes I miss who I was before I became 'Mum'. Not because I'm not grateful for this life, but because I haven't felt like me in a while.
Most days I count down until bedtime, and then when they're finally asleep, I spend my free time scrolling through photos of them and feeling guilty for how I was that day.
Sometimes I resent how easily everyone else's needs get met before mine even register as a need.
I never considered myself an angry person, until I had children. They test me in ways I've never been tested before.
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Small rituals for the days that ask a little too much of you. Things to help soften the edges, settle your body and make space for a moment that is just for you.