Anya HayesMay 21, 20173 minPower of TouchIt’s selfcare Sunday: a day which should be in indelible ink in everyone’s bullet journal. I had an aromatherapy massage today, a long...
Anya HayesMay 16, 20173 minMum fail?This morning brought some more spectacularly misguided comment from the Daily Mail about the state of motherhood, basically summing up in...
Anya HayesMay 15, 20176 minSeries: What’s in your toolkit? 4 – Suzy Reading: Part 1I first connected with Suzy on Instagram last year, when I sensed a kindred spirit in her posts, an understanding of the relentless...
Anya HayesMay 8, 20175 minSeries: What’s in your toolkit 3 – Emma CannonEmma Cannon is a fertility expert, author, natural conception and IVF support acupuncture practitioner, and has been supporting women in...
Anya HayesMay 5, 20175 minSeries: What’s in your toolkit? 2 – @thepsychologymum@thepsychologymum burst onto our Instagram squares of awareness two months ago, and has made a huge impact in a short time with her...
Anya HayesMay 4, 20178 minSeries: What’s in your toolkit? 1 – @mumologistNew Series Klaxon! For the next few weeks I’ll be featuring a few of my favourite wellness, coaching, psychology experts asking them to...
Anya HayesMay 4, 20173 minFinding Mama’s MojoThis week is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. I’ll be starting an exciting new series tomorrow on the blog: getting to...
Anya HayesApr 24, 20174 minThe long kiss…helloSometimes having children can be like watching a time-lapse video. It takes my breath away how quickly phases seem to have passed in...
Anya HayesApr 23, 20175 minWho’s that girl?The subject of identity keeps poking its little head out of mouse holes at me a lot recently. The idea of who we are once we’ve had...
Anya HayesMar 28, 20172 minLook for the lightMums often talk about being in “survival mode” in the first years of motherhood. Of battening down the hatches to get through the days...
Anya HayesMar 18, 20173 minThe Supermum MythAnd then, I have a week like this week which offered me a new perspective on that Supermum assumption. Yesterday I feel like I had a...
Anya HayesJan 8, 20173 minThe Mum-me balance When I lived in Japan nearly 20 years ago (eek!), the local stray cat – who we had named Josephina – one evening roamed into our...
Anya HayesJan 8, 20173 minThe A game Anxiety. The monkey that sits atop our shoulder, wriggling and jiggling, weighing down and informing thoughts, which become our...