World Mental Health Day – how are you?
It’s World Mental Health Day today. You wouldn’t feel ashamed to tell anyone you had sprained your ankle or had a sore throat. Yet we...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 12, 20184 min read
A gratitude attitude – mindfulness and #everydayjoy
I recently recorded a podcast with the gorgeous Tamu Thomas, founder of Three Sixty and one half of the founders of Motherhood...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 11, 20184 min read
Brain gym – exercise to tone the brain
I’ve just had the great fortune to have been to a wonderful Mindfulness and Yoga retreat, where we had daily guided meditation and...
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Anya Hayes
Jun 1, 20183 min read
The Elastic Brain – benefits of meditation
“Mummy I never change my mind. I always keep the same mind.” Maurice said this to me yesterday, when I suggested that he *might* change...
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Anya Hayes
May 22, 20183 min read
You’ve just had a baby! What now?!
It’s a rollercoaster time, the newborn phase. It’s a watershed of all of the anticipation of the past nearly-year, finally holding your...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20188 min read
Returning to “normal” post-baby
You have a baby. You take it relatively easy for the first 6 weeks, maybe doing the odd squeeze of your pelvic floor (clenching your...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 11, 20184 min read
Rebirth post-caesarean
This month is Caesarean awareness month. First time round, I had that blissful naivety that as long as you “planned” your birth, in the...
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Anya Hayes
Mar 29, 20186 min read
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....
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Anya Hayes
Jan 12, 20184 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20185 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 7, 20185 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 6, 20183 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 5, 20189 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 13, 20174 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 5, 20177 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Aug 8, 20176 min read
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...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 21, 20173 min read
How not to let social anxiety be the boss of you
Social anxiety…just the word anxiety makes my blood pressure rise a little bit, do you feel that? I’ve always suffered from social...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 16, 20173 min read
How to create space and unclutter the mind
One of the things we most crave as mums – as modern humans – is space. When I chatted with the lovely Zoe from @motherkind_zoe for her...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 14, 20175 min read
A letter to my new mum self
I went to an event today called Tea for PND, arranged by the amazing Jo from Lobella Loves. A room full of mums connecting and sharing...
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Anya Hayes
Jul 12, 20174 min read
Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 12 – Lynne Robinson
Next up in the series, one of my all-time inspirations and someone who has personally and professionally influenced the way I live my...
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