RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey lovely, You're no stranger to personal development. You're a reflective person by nature, and the fact that you feel things so deeply means you naturally gravitate towards thinking about your feelings and thoughts. Certain things have helped with the emotional intensity of life: walks in nature, a yoga or mindfulness practice. Maybe you’ve even faced your demons in therapy. You’ve tried a lot. And yet… life still feels harder than it should,...
25 days ago • 3 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey lovely,Maybe last year Mother’s Day felt a little… disappointing. You’ve sacrificed so much for your children, pressed pause on your career while your partner’s continued to progress, and the truth is, it would be nice for that all to be seen. You can’t help but desire a Mother’s Day that feels like it acknowledges the effort you put into your mothering every single day. That makes sense, and I’m right there with you! So I wanted to spend this...
26 days ago • 4 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey lovely,Maybe last year Mother’s Day felt a little… disappointing. You’ve sacrificed so much for your children, pressed pause on your career while your partner’s continued to progress, and the truth is, it would be nice for that all to be seen. You can’t help but desire a Mother’s Day that feels like it acknowledges the effort you put into your mothering every single day. That makes sense, and I’m right there with you! So I wanted to spend this...
26 days ago • 4 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey lovely, Do you ever wonder if you should just give it all up for them? You’ve always had ambition, goals for your life. You’ve always approached your career with intention and it’s given you a sense of purpose. But in those moments when it gets in the way of being there for your kids — your mind drifting to that client during dinner, answering emails while they beg you to play with them, feeling like you’re not doing a good enough job at either...
4 months ago • 3 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey lovely, Have you ever been in a moment you knew was special, and just felt disconnected from it? You’re spending time together as a family, the kids are falling about laughing over some silliness, your partner catches your eye and smiles, and you smile back — but somehow the warmth of the moment doesn’t quite reach you. Maybe it’s a blanket sense of exhaustion that keeps you numb. Maybe it’s the way your to-do list keeps tugging at your attention,...
4 months ago • 2 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader, January is the month of fresh starts, renewed motivation, and a burst of energy. Except if you’re a mum. December brought some special memories, but the load wore you down. In amidst the change in routine, you were the one keeping tabs on whether the kids were about to get hungry again, when they needed to sleep, whether they’d had enough connected time with you. You juggled logistics and emotional responsiveness and the flu season without...
5 months ago • 3 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader,Hey mama, If you’re gearing up to celebrate Christmas, you might feel this sense that it’s all on you. All on you to consider all the individual likes and preferences before choosing what to cook. All on you to carry the emotional load of the whole family, making sure that the kids are handling being out of routine and all the extra stimulation, so you can try avoid the big meltdown. Just like it was all on you to come up with thoughtful...
5 months ago • 2 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader,Does your head also feel like it’s going to explode with the seemingly endless list of things you need to do: sort end of year teacher gifts, buy your mother-in-law’s gift, arrange the Christmas grocery delivery… The pressure to squeeze all the to-dos into what precious kid-free time you have left (when they aren’t already home with the latest winter bug, of course) is real. If your sensitive nervous system is already fried, I see you. And...
5 months ago • 2 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader, The other night, I burned my finger taking the dinner out of the oven. But it was that pre-dinner chaos, and the kids were hungry, so I just kind of… pushed it to the side and carried on with getting dinner on the table, everyone fed, and cleaning up while my husband bathed our girls. It wasn’t until I lay down in the dark to put my 17 month old to sleep that I noticed the throbbing pain in my finger. It made me think about how so often...
6 months ago • 3 min read
