motherhood
The stage of parenting we're not told about
There’s so many stages of parenting that I feel we have so much advice and tips given to us about. We can prepare ourselves. “Sleep when baby sleeps” “Ahhh my baby has a rash, I know to do the glass test” “My child has hurt themselves, kiss it better”. We kind of know what to do and what not to do. We’ve read it in a book, on a forum, our community has told us.
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wellbeing
April 2025
Well April just flew by! It didn't feel long ago that I was writing my March roundup post and now here I am writing an April roundup! April, thankfully, has been quieter than the last couple of months which is just what I wanted/needed. Crabbing! I sat in the garden to have my morning coffee and was desperate to get out of the house for the day. The boys appeared…
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wellbeing
Things That Are Therapy to Me
Last week I sat on a panel with two other colleagues, Wendy Robinson who is the Director of Services at CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) and our work Wellbeing Ambassador Jeff Brazier. The panel event topic was 'Therapy' and was filmed to be shared with colleagues in a months time. I mainly shared about my experience with seeing a therapist, briefly a…
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wellbeing
Things I’ve done to improve my Wellbeing - #2 Wellbeing Days
In September last year I planned to start a blog series "Things I've done to improve my Wellbeing". I wrote one post, about reading , then I didn't write any more for that series. In November I followed it up with " Things I STOPPED doing which affected my Wellbeing ". I could easily think that I failed in not continuing with that series …
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wellbeing
March 2025
I genuinely thought that March might be relatively quiet. Other than having plans to go to London with work for an event, I didn't think I'd have much else going on really. How wrong I was! This was my March:
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