7 Ways to Let Go of Mother Guilt
Image by Juan Galafa:Unsplash First seen in I am Woman Magazine “Do you think we make motherhood too complicated?” Katie asked. Katie had a full-time job and struggled with allocating time to herself because work and domesticity always got in the way. She said that when she […]
7 Top Tips For Decluttering Your Kitchen
Image:RonyZMbowCanStockPhoto I’m a firm believer in decluttering! I’m really passionate about it and can see benefits in having an uncluttered workspace and home life. Decluttering is hard for some and it’s because we are so emotionally wrapped up in our stuff. My Dad still has boxes of […]
Why It’s Good to have Regrets?
Image: Lea Dubedout/Unsplash What’s been your biggest regret so far? Is it something you wish you did? Or wish you hadn’t done? Maybe you said something to someone in the heat of the moment and now you can’t take it back. We’ve all experienced moments of regret. That painful emotional feeling of wishing we could […]
5 Time Management Tips For Productivity and Wellbeing
Image:Viktor Hancek/picjumbo Good time management enables you to achieve a healthy work-life balance. It helps us to create more fun with your kids, more quality time with your partner, and even the coveted and nearly forgotten alone time, which I call ‘me’ time. I believe that good time management is one of the essential ingredients […]
Is Your School Leaver Better Suited to Work, Study or a Gap Year?
Image: David & Allie/DeathToStockPhoto Helping your teenager make the big decision about what to do after graduating from high school means you are taking on yet another important role in their life. You’ve helped your child along the way and through many of those important childhood milestones to now helping them take their first steps into […]
Preparing for A Conflict Free Christmas
Image: Picjumbo Christmas is a rather chaotic time when dealing with extended family members. Particularly if you haven’t seen them for much of the year, and they turn up on mass, and sadly make the festive day less than joyous. Christmas can be stressful enough even before they arrive so how do you handle these […]
Man’s Search For Meaning: Balancing Freedom and Responsibility (Guest blogger Richard Prince)
Deep within myself have a sense of responsibility, to provide for my family, for me this is meaningful and rewarding. I do this by choosing to participate in a world that can be highly demanding of my time and energy. Yet, I also carry within myself an innate desire to be free of the limits […]
Bouncing Back After Divorce
Image: Milada Vigerova/Unsplash Is it possible to bounce back after divorce? That was the first question my client asked me. Is it possible to heal through a divorce and come out the other side? Nine years ago, I went through my own divorce and it was a perfect storm. I went through some very […]
Mother Guilt
Image: Allie Lehman/DeathStockPhoto Many of us come into motherhood with certain expectations of how a mother should be. Perhaps we’ve modelled this from our mothers or from the magazines, television and movies we saw growing up. Just as we grow into our role as a mother, and our child grows in our belly, we begin making […]
Say No With Confidence
Image: Movie 6/Death To Stock For generations, women have been programmed to be more accommodating and say yes whether we want to or not. We have demands made on our time, our finances, and energy. We feel a certain obligation to say yes because as women we want to be polite, nice, and helpful to […]
