By Adele Kirkby-Clarke The photo below was one of the ones I never posted. I struggled immensely with this photo. I didn’t show anyone this photo because I was worried about what other people would think. How was it that I could take a photo of both my boys at a time like this? And …
By Kelly Wilton We know that when we wake up on the ‘wrong side of bed’ it’s generally due to a poor night’s sleep, together with our systems being overloaded with all that we manage on a day to day basis, resulting in less time for our bodies to rest, reset and get ready for …
By Fiona Lawton Parenting a child is like watching a caterpillar become a butterfly, only for it to metamorphosise again into something more miraculous with each new stage of life. We watch as our newborns become toddlers, then pre-schoolers. Then with excitement we march them off to school for those heady and glorious primary school …
Parenting a child with a disability through the teen years Read More »
By Kelly Wilton Talking about self-care can almost induce feelings of guilt – if it’s not part of your daily to-do list, you feel guilty for thinking about adding a further thing to the list , or the fact that you are not doing it, brings on the guilts! You’re damned if you do and …
By Kelly Wilton There are many things I look back on and wish that I knew then what I know now. It would have helped with the turbulent array of emotions I went through in those early years of parenting. My partner in crime and I weathered some pretty major storms with our premature twins in the early days and we continue …
8 things I wish I’d known when I became a special needs parent Read More »
By Kelly Wilton As parents of kids with disabilities, at some point we are all asked the question – “How do you do it?”… usually followed by, “ I couldn’t do what you do!” How do we do what? How do we care for our child? How do we fight for our child? How do …
By Heidi Denner How we view ourselves directly impacts our mental and emotional wellbeing. A “healthy self-image” can be developed when we understand and acknowledge our intrinsic value and worth as a human being. This healthy self-image helps us have confidence to be vulnerable, embracing mistakes as opportunities to grow, rather than sending us on …
Our inner self talk – how it builds up and knocks down self confidence Read More »
The Healthy Mothers Healthy Families program promotes a way of life to empower mothers to make changes in their own personal health and wellbeing. How many times do we become unwell due to not making our own health and wellbeing a priority? There is much we can do to help ourselves but we also need …
At the end of the year, we are all experiencing brain fog. Whether you are feeling overwhelmed with balancing day-to-day tasks on top of the mental load that is Christmas and long school holidays, or experiencing brain fog regularly, brain fatigue can be troublesome. So what is brain fatigue? Brain fatigue can be described as …
Nourish your noggin: ways to combat brain fatigue Read More »
By Kat Barlow The phone rang, it was the call we had been waiting for. It had been years of challenging struggles with so many doctors to get this MRI done. To see what’s going in inside my son Noah’s brain. Everyone kept saying they wouldn’t find anything. My gut told me otherwise. I picked …
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