THE RESILIENT WORKING MUM, Workplace Burnout, Employee Performance, Women in Leadership, Stress Management, Resilience, Productivity, Boundaries, Working Mothers

As a young girl, the thought of exercise made me feel exhausted, heavy and lethargic.  I would do everything I could not to exercise.  Little did I know that a few years later, I would be a rower, would be running half marathons and would be completing a half ironman.  My story is one that I think that we could possibly all relate to in some area of our lives. It might give you the motivation to s...

Are you feeling stuck in some area of your life? In your role as a working mom or in your role at work? In your health or in your relationships? Do you feel like you just can’t see way out of the situation and the way that things are going but you know that you want things to be different? Today's episode offers five steps to getting unstuck that I have tried and tested on myself and my clients an...

You are stressed and overwhelmed and just wish you had a moment for yourself.  The to do list goes on and on and you aren't sure when you are going to get it all done.  You snap at the children, want to cry and feel like you are going to break at any moment.  This episode looks at how this state of stress can lead to the fact that we have even less time and how that then perpetuates the cycle as w...

At the end of the day, do you find it really hard to close your laptop and stop thinking about the to do list and all the things that you didn’t get done? Do you feel drawn back to it and find yourself working after hours or unable to be present with your family or even yourself?  The overstimulation of all that is required of us during the day can leave us exhausted and on top of this, we find ou...

We all long for more time.  Time to do the have tos and time to do the want tos! But it feels like there is never enough of this precious resource and we are running around trying to fit everything in while feeling flustered and exhausted. Today, I offer three practical ways that you can take back your time so that you can get more done in the day and so that you can feel energized and on top of t...

When the to do list is as long as our arms, it is so easy to jump from task to task, suddenly remembering that something needs to be done or reacting to a request for something from one of the many people who have needs or expectations of us. We are distracted, there isn't enough time to fit everything in and we end up feeling guilty for not working or parenting properly.  When we are overstimulat...

On 9 June 2022, my two-year-old daughter was wheeled into theatre to undergo open heart surgery.  As I watched her prepare for the surgery and in the days following this ordeal, I was in awe of how she managed the whole process and it got me thinking about why she was able to do so with such calm and ease and peace. It made me think about how we could live our lives more like this and so I offer m...

Do you feel like you are constantly chasing your tail, trying to balance the time you spend at work and the time you spend at home? Do you wish you had more time for your children and yourself and that you could give up some of your work time but you need the money? Does the work life balance seem impossible to find and you wish you could feel less stressed and more in control?  Today, we are talk...

Do you find that you never have a chance to do the things that you love?  Or you actually can’t even remember what it was that you used to do that brought you joy? One of the biggest problems I have come across for working moms is finding ‘me-time’ or taking any time for ourselves if the time does come up or is offered to us. We end up out of balance, impatient and frustrated.  What I have learnt...

Today, I had the great privilege of spending time with Shan Wright who lives in Indiana USA, a working mom of 4 and a registered nurse and wellness coach so we have a little bit in common! Shan’s passion for holistic healing and wellness grew after her experience with postpartum anxiety. She now shares the solutions she uses for intentional and peaceful motherhood on the Top 3% globally ranked pod...

In this coaching call, Diane was looking for some help with time management. She came to me looking for strategies to shut out the noise and focus on what matters in every time block and each area of her life. We worked through what isn’t working for her.  She was distracted and found that she wasn't productive when she had the time to be. She developed a plan that she could take away and implemen...

Today is my birthday and so I am excited to share a little bit more about where I have come from and where I am today. We look at the tools that I have used to make changes in my life and to transform it from one of striving and fluster and not doing anything properly to one of focus and feeing in control of my future, able to keep that work life balance and enjoy my work and my motherhood. My aim...

Sometimes we lie in bed and wonder how we could make a change to the relentless rush and hamster wheel of life.  Or at least, I have done that many nights of my life!  And I have found that there is one thing that I can do that can allow me the space and the freedom to slow down and to respond life the way that I want to, living it more intentionally rather than just reacting to whatever next thin...

Once the children are settled at school and the year is in full swing, we still have to get back into the swing of work if we have been out of it over the holidays.  I found that my work took a bit of a backseat while I was getting everyone ready and into the new school year and now I am back at my desk and need to hit the ground running! This can sometimes feel like a slog when we have hundreds o...

Connecting with someone is the foundation of any relationship.  If you do not connect with someone, it is hard to keep that relationship going. In the busy-ness of working and mothering life, there is little time to think about how we connect. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t and if we don’t, we don’t often take time to think about why not. This Christmas, I took some time to figure out why...

This is a busy season for working moms. After the holidays, we are flung into back-to-school activities with everything new whether it is a new class or a new school altogether, or just a new year after the festivities of the Christmas holidays! It can be exhausting and this exhaustion can cause us to be impatient, irritable and generally not the way we want to be. I followed the three steps I off...

If you are anything like me, resentment is a part of your life, even more so now that you are a mum trying to manage the mental and emotional load and fit everything in that needs to get done. It is a really hard emotion to put down and it can cause real chasms and break downs in relationships. Today’s episode offers a new take on resentment that might allow you to be able to put it down, to take...

Are you struggling to see results even though it feels like you are working so hard? Do you wonder why you can’t see to make any progress? Do you wish you could feel less pressured and more at ease?  In every area of our lives, there is one thing we can do to make sure that we make progress and that we get the results that we want. Today’s episode talks about this and offers 6 tips to moving close...

Feeling anxious is something that we have all experienced in varying degrees.  But why do some people find certain situations anxiety provoking while others seem to manage them or even thrive in them? Why do some people get overwhelmed, lose focus and feel stressed when other can remain calm and peaceful and in control?  Today’s conversation takes a look at an equation that offers a different pers...

I think it is really useful to have a word for the year that keeps us aligned to our goals and can help to ground us when things get a little chaotic so that we can keep balanced and feel more in control.  This year, I have chosen a word that is going to remind me what I am doing with this podcast and as a working mum. It is a word that you, too, can use to make the work that you do at work and at...

It is the beginning of a new year. And we all have a list of resolutions that we are going to keep THIS YEAR! We are going to be more organized. We are going to be more consistent with our eating/exercise/parenting strategy. We are going to stop shouting at the children so much.  We are going to be more self-controlled.  We are going to be healthier. We are going to find more balance and be less s...

Struggling to lose weight? Wish you had more control of what you eat and how much you eat? Do you want to find a way of life that makes you feel clearer and cleaner and healthier in your body and in your mind? Longing to focus on your work and be more productive but there is so much noise in your head about what works and what doesn't? I have always struggled with my weight and I have been on and...

When the balls are all in the air and you feel overwhelmed and like you need more time, it is easy to drop the balls that appear to be not ‘as important’. These are generally the things that are the most important for us, the working mum, the things that keep us going and make us feel good as mums and as women. I have three non-negotiables in my day that I know I need in order to maintain my work...

In this second part of our two part ‘series’ on asking for help, we look at how you can ask for help in a way that you will actually get it so that you can have more time to get things done, can focus and be more productive and can feel less stressed about your to do list!  If you haven’t yet, I really recommend that if you struggle to ask for help, you listen to part one first. This episode offer...

Asking for help can be really hard for a lot of us as working mums. And yet getting help might be the difference between failure and success. It can decrease our stress levels and allow us to be more productive so that we can focus more and in turn feel less stressed! There are various reasons why it might be difficult for us to ask for help. Getting to know these gives the chance to get past our...