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The Pelvic Floor Patrol
We, the Pelvic Floor Patrol, are a team of 5 women who are all passionate about empowering women with health and wellbeing postnatally....
Anya Hayes
Mar 29, 20186 min read
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The bounce back – postnatal fitness and health
This week I got together with an amazing group of women to have a very special meeting, with Baroness Cumberlege who is the Independent...
Anya Hayes
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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You’ve got this mamas! The Supermum Myth event in Norwich
You know those days with a small (or even slightly large) baby when you just think, actually it’s so much of a palaver getting out of the...
Anya Hayes
Jan 26, 20182 min read
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MUTU – Leaner, Stronger, Fitter, more in control, more confident? Don’t mind if I do!
As some of you who are regular readers of the blog (hiya! *waves* Very happy to have you here!), you’ll know that in November I started...
Anya Hayes
Jan 12, 20184 min read
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Scummy Mummies: How not to feel like a shit mum
Late last year Dr Rachel Andrew and I had the huge pleasure of being invited onto the Scummy Mummies podcast to talk about our book The...
Anya Hayes
Jan 9, 20184 min read
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Control freak? – Motherhood, identity, exhaustion, PND
I’ve never really thought of myself as a control freak, I’ve always thought I was relatively easy going and serene. But I guess, up until...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20185 min read
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New Year Wellness toolkit
New year, new you, all the headlines shout enthusiastically. We might write energetic resolutions in our new 2018 journals, or we might...
Anya Hayes
Jan 7, 20185 min read
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Dry January: The impropriety of sobriety
Dry January – are you doing it? Have you done it? Normally the driest my January goes is a dry white wine. I’ve always been a bit sniffy...
Anya Hayes
Jan 6, 20183 min read
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Birth Trauma – Trauma is not a normal part of birth
Today is Freddie’s birthday. This time 3 years ago I was lying in the postnatal ward, breastfeeding a newborn of two hours old. (Three...
Anya Hayes
Jan 5, 20189 min read
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Umami healing – the power of Miso
I’ve been really interested recently in Ayurveda, living life with an equilibrium with my body and the seasons to try and make sure I’m...
Anya Hayes
Jan 4, 20183 min read
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MuTu Postnatal exercise: Embrace body positivity
This week I had the pleasure and privilege of going to a body positivity event hosted by the MuTu System. It was a screening of the Body...
Anya Hayes
Nov 13, 20174 min read
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Model Method Online: Less Pretty More Sweaty
Fitting it in – How do you make time for for fitness around your kids? Fitness postnatally has been the hardest thing for me to find...
Anya Hayes
Nov 5, 20177 min read
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Let’s Talk Miscarriage
Today I went to a wonderful Gathering of Tribes event at Emma Cannon‘s Chelsea clinic to commemorate Baby Loss Awareness Week. Emma...
Anya Hayes
Oct 31, 20173 min read
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HIIT me baby one more time – Model Method Online #2
JOY – so what did you used to do for “exercise” when you were little? Do you remember what you did to “keep fit” when you were a kid? I’d...
Anya Hayes
Oct 30, 20173 min read
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Be Strong, Be Happy, Be Healthy: the Model Method Online #1
If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly looking for ways that you can supercharge/begin a “fitness routine” around an already...
Anya Hayes
Oct 29, 20173 min read
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Flexible Strength: your pelvic floor in pregnancy and beyond
The pelvic floor: you’ve heard about it, you’re told to “exercise” it, you know it’s there…but it’s a little bit intangible and ethereal....
Anya Hayes
Sep 27, 20178 min read
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Model Method Online: Week 1
Week 1 of the Model Method Online – tick! It’s amazing how even just a week of upping your exercise routine can start to make you feel...
Anya Hayes
Aug 29, 20173 min read
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Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 14 – Midwife Hannah Horne
Lovely Hannah, or @midwifehorne as she is to her many followers on Instagram, is a ray of sunshine on Instagram and writes a wonderful...
Anya Hayes
Aug 25, 20178 min read
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DOMS – help! My muscles are trying to kill me!
Have you ever started a new exercise regime full of enthusiasm, perhaps a running programme or a new dynamic yoga class, only to be...
Anya Hayes
Aug 24, 20173 min read
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Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 13 – Nicky Clinch
Balance. Wholeness. Purpose. These are the three overarching themes which greet you when you visit Nicky Clinch’s website. Comforting...
Anya Hayes
Aug 8, 20176 min read
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