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Anya Hayes
Mar 26, 20203 min read
How to stay calm and sane during isolation
While “stay safe/healthy” has become a common sign off in the age of coronavirus, we need to nurture our ability to stay sane, too. The...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 30, 20194 min read
How to approach Christmas without Motherwhelm
Christmas is a time of joy, and sometimes the gap between reality and joyfulness can make us feel like we’re not quite getting it right....
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Anya Hayes
Nov 27, 20196 min read
Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 18 – Greta Solomon, Holistic Transformation Coach
Tell me about yourself! Tell me more about being a Holistic Transformation Coach, and how you came to do what you do. Hi, I’m Greta...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 26, 20195 min read
“She’s doing a much better job than me” – how comparison takes the joy out o
Help! I’m such a crap mum, everyone else is coping better than me, what can i do to stop feeling this way? The Supermum Myth Modern mums...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 13, 20196 min read
Financial Self Care: Rituals and Positive Money Mindset
It’s been two months since I started my full-time job. Two months of a new work/life juggle, a new routine for the boys, a change in...
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Anya Hayes
Jun 13, 20193 min read
Pelvic floor exercises – am I doing them right?
Pelvic floor exercises – we know we need to do them, right? But we forget, or we skip it in favour of eating a biscuit, or we’re not sure...
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Anya Hayes
Jun 12, 20195 min read
The importance of being a ‘good enough mum’
Being a ‘Good Enough’ Mum There is so much pressure on us to be a ‘perfect mum’ – the Supermum ideal is something that hovers over us...
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Anya Hayes
Jun 6, 20193 min read
Motherhood: the long kiss hello
Sometimes having children can be like watching a time-lapse video. It takes my breath away how quickly phases seem to have passed when...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 25, 20194 min read
Pelvic flaws: Part 2 of my talk at the Birth trauma conference.
The link between mental and physical health is inextricable, arguably. But never more so than in pregnancy and motherhood. In the second...
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Anya Hayes
Dec 30, 20182 min read
New year – same you! Why we should ditch new year’s resolutions
It’s that time of year again, where fitness advertising cashes in on the fact that we’ve all eaten too many biscuits and have been...
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Anya Hayes
Dec 9, 20185 min read
The Supermum Myth – how to overcome anxiety, ditch guilt and embrace imperfection
Motherhood is the one thing able to send you from feeling like a million dollars to a piece of poo, in one swoosh of a baby wipe. It...
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Anya Hayes
Dec 4, 20184 min read
Mindfulness for pregnancy, birth… and motherhood
Mindfulness is definitely a buzzword, like many a new fad in the wellness industry we may have reached peak saturation in terms of...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 21, 20184 min read
Perinatal anxiety – what it is, and tips for how to manage it
Perinatal Anxiety Pregnancy The Naked Truth by Anya Hayes What is it, and why am I feeling it? We’ve all heard of ‘postnatal depression’...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 17, 20182 min read
What is “the postnatal period”? How long am I “postpartum”?
I’ve just finished writing Postnatal Pilates – I cannot wait for this to be available as a resource for mums to take ownership of their...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 16, 20183 min read
Abdominal Massage – why it’s so important for your postnatal recovery
If I could have known the power of JUST ONE THING postnatally first time round, it would have been the immensely healing and restorative...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 14, 20182 min read
Stretches for feeding mums
Forward leaning when feeding your baby is literally a pain in the neck. In some ways aches and pains are inevitable as a new mum, but...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 14, 20184 min read
Post birth healing tips
In the first few days and weeks after giving birth you’ll probably feel bruised and sore, whatever birth experience you’ve had. We’re...
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Anya Hayes
Nov 1, 20183 min read
How to restore your pelvic floor, in less than 3 minutes a day
One of the things that new mums tell me almost more than than anything else, is that they wish they had fully understood how important...
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Anya Hayes
Oct 18, 20182 min read
Welcome to Motherhood
I did a lovely live chat last night with Lauren, an inspiring author and motivational speaker, on her Facebook page This Girl is Enough....
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Anya Hayes
Oct 18, 20182 min read
The art of breathing
It all begins with the breath. Did you realise that, although breathing is a natural reflex that all living animals perform, newborn...
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