It is not your fault if you find it difficult to prioritise your self-care as a mother. Your brain has altered to facilitate focusing on your baby’s survival and to ensure bonding, and nature intended for you to be surrounded by a village to support you with raising your baby and caring for yourself.

Too many contradictions in that title? Then this blog post is for you!

By now Silly Season is well and truly upon us, and if you’re feeling overwhelmed already it’s not too late to press pause and reset. Here are some suggestions for how to do that:

When somebody starts therapy sessions with me, an important part of our work is to fully acknowledge and give credit to them for looking for support, even though they may have had some, or all, of the doubts below. It is completely normal to have concerns before starting anything new, and everyone I have worked with has had at least one of the worries below before they started therapy. And as I share at the end, I had some of them myself before I started therapy!