Christmas is a time of joy, and sometimes the gap between reality and joyfulness can make us feel like we’re not quite getting it right. Here’s my handy guid...

I’ve been back in full-time work for nearly 3 months now – almost out of the newborn phase! I feel like any life transition takes at least 3 months to recali...

What is a “wellness toolkit”? I first started gathering a wellness toolkit when I went through a really shocking bereavement when I was 28. My best friend fr...

Social media is a wonderful tool. It has connected us in such amazing ways to information and support in the postnatal days, weeks, months and years, to help...

I’m so delighted to introduce the new toolkit from ROOTED LIVING Founder, Pandora Paloma, Intuitive Living Coach, specialising in Intuitive eating & Living, ...

I’m delighted to share a handful of the 5-star reviews currently on Amazon for The Supermum Myth. •••• I discovered Anya on Instagram after the birth of my s...

I was asked to answer a few questions for a blog, and I thought I’d share it here for you guys – I’d love to hear your thoughts, we’re all in it together mam...

The six-week GP check – where you are pronounced ‘back to normal’, right? The 6-week check is an interesting experiment because it rarely scratches the surfa...

If you feel physically weak after having babies it can have a domino effect on your emotional energy, feelings of competence, self-confidence, your sense of ...

Pelvic floor exercises – we know we need to do them, right? But we forget, or we skip it in favour of eating a biscuit, or we’re not sure HOW to do them so w...

Before having children, I didn’t realise how many ‘pillars’ I had to help keep my mental and physical health ticking along nicely. I had, I now realise, artf...

It’s half term this week in the UK, which means I’ve got both boys with me full time, plus a load of admin to keep an eye on, and various other things I’ve n...

Meditation. That word stresses lots of us out. I can’t meditate, my mind is too busy. I don’t have time to meditate.  Sometimes there are just too many ‘shou...

This time last year I got together with an amazing group of women to have a very exciting meeting, with Baroness Cumberlege who is the Independent Chair of t...

The link between mental and physical health is inextricable, arguably. But never more so than in pregnancy and motherhood. In the second half of my talk, the...

My talk at the Birth Trauma Conference earlier this month focused on the link between maternal mental health and pelvic floor dysfunction. I explored three m...

Pregnancy isn’t an illness: it’s a natural, normal and healthy state – even if that first-trimester permanently hungover feeling makes you feel otherwise. If...

It’s that time of year again, where fitness advertising cashes in on the fact that we’ve all eaten too many biscuits and have been sitting on our bums a lot ...

Motherhood is the one thing able to send you from feeling like a million dollars to a piece of poo, in one swoosh of a baby wipe. It contains our zenith, and...

What is anxiety? What is its purpose? Anxiety organises our responses to threats to our life, health and wellbeing. Focuses on our escape from danger. It enc...