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...
about 2 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,...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 months ago • 3 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader, There’s a side to the load that feels particularly hard: the weight of feeling like nobody really sees you. How immense the load you carry really is. What it takes to show up for your kids everyday without fail, no matter how tired or unwell you are. How hard it is to have nothing left for yourself at the end of the day. How crushing the guilt is when you get overwhelmed and aren’t able to show up as the steady, patient, present mum you...
4 months ago • 2 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader, Picture this: You’re sitting on the floor with your child, building a unicorn castle or a racetrack for monster trucks together, when your mind begins to drift. You promised your little one some special one-on-one time playing together, you put aside the to-do list so you could connect, but now that you’re here, you can’t help but feel… restless. You feel the pull of the laundry piled on the dining room table waiting to be folded, the...
4 months ago • 2 min read
RESILIENT IN MOTHERHOOD with KIRSTI GWYNN Hey Reader, Here’s the honest truth about why it can feel so hard to prioritise myself in motherhood, as a recovering people-pleaser… (Maybe you relate?) When I decide to do something for myself, I would love if no one was inconvenienced by me doing so. I feel guilty when the baby cries because it’s me she wants, or my toddler asks me to stay. I feel guilty coming back to find my husband overstimulated (even though I would be, too). It would feel...
5 months ago • 2 min read
