Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2025
The theme for this year’s Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘your voice, your strength’ and I have mixed feelings about it. The postnatal period is a super vulnerable time for most women. You birth yourself as a mother when you birth your baby. You’re figuring out how to integrate being a mum into your […]
The Nervous System Myth: Why you don’t actually want to be calm all the time as a new mum
Are you constantly feeling like you're failing at this whole "regulated nervous system" thing? You've picked up the idea that a 'regulated nervous system' means you're calm 24/7, and now you feel like you're failing because you still lose your sh*t when your kid has a meltdown in the supermarket 🫠 If this sounds familiar, […]
Guest Blog: When Fear Meets Love: Navigating Postpartum Anxiety And Other Emotions After Baby Loss
When Fear Meets Love: Navigating the Complex Emotions of Postpartum After Loss The other night, as I sat in my therapy room with a mum holding her rainbow baby, she shared something that stayed with me. "It's 3 AM", she said, "and I'm standing over that crib again. My hand is hovering over my baby's […]
Why your anxiety might go up a notch (or three) around the festive period
Christmas is supposed to be the ‘most wonderful time of the year’, right? For lots of us, wrong! While we might really look forward to Christmas, for lots of mums it can feel really overwhelming and we might notice a real uptick in our anxiety. So what’s going on? Here are a few of the […]