When I had my first daughter I couldn’t wait to get back into exercise. I had built my life on being fit and strong - from playing professional netball to growing a group fitness business - being fit was who I was. I wasn’t going to let something as significant as...
Mum's are the busiest people I know. If you're a mum, how often are you taking time out to relax? Or are you like me and find it hard to relax? Being relaxed can help ease stress, relieve anxiety, depression and sleep problems. To relax means to remove the noise in...
How to prevent or eliminate the ENS blues with five easy steps. Your last child is leaving home. You feel blue. Sure, you still have work and even though that’s rewarding, there is still this malaise that you can’t escape. You’re the proud mother of a college student...
On the tip of an iceberg We have created unconscious unhealthy habits that we do not even think about while we are doing them. This could be the way we breathe, our posture or the way we get annoyed and shout at our children. The first step of breaking these habits is...
Massage is important for more than just relaxation A woman’s body experiences significant physical and emotional, as well as hormonal, changes during pregnancy and childbirth. Her body adapts to accommodate extra weight, her organs move to make room for the baby and...
Are you a step-mom who is simply surviving and you would much rather be thriving in your role? I understand. Being a step-mom is no easy walk in the park. As a veteran step-mom, I wasted plenty of years paralyzed with the disease to please. I had no idea what my role...
There are only two people in this world that Keiko loves with all his heart – his mum and dad. Keiko is absolutely my baby. It does not matter that I am human and he is an animal. To him, I am his most constant companion, and he mine. I consider myself a mum, it’s...
When I first had children, I was a parenting advice magnet. Close friends, long-lost aunties and strangers alike all chimed in with their two cents about motherhood. Breast is best. Stick to Supernanny’s bedtime routine. Never give a three year old a hot glue gun!...
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States One beautiful summer’s day in New York City, I was wandering the streets of Harlem with my son, Will, who was only...
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