Who’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...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 20, 20175 min read
Freelance life: before vs after kids
My name is Anya and I’m a freelance scrappy mishmash… er, sorry I mean, I’m a freelance writer/editor and proofreader/project...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 17, 20173 min read
Things I’ve learnt
Freddie is now 2 years old. 2 YEARS OLD. Well, 2 and a quarter, if we’re being pedantic. I’ve learnt that with a 5 year old and a toddler...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 15, 20174 min read
Open your heart
Not just a great Madonna track from the 80s (I can still picture the poster I had of her on my bedroom wall, in all her 80s legwarmer...
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Anya Hayes
Apr 6, 20172 min read
Mother’s Little Helper
Motherhood – a state of being which often means that however sorted and competent you’re feeling – like me here, all dressed up at a...
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Anya Hayes
Mar 28, 20172 min read
Look for the light
Mums often talk about being in “survival mode” in the first years of motherhood. Of battening down the hatches to get through the days...
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Anya Hayes
Mar 18, 20173 min read
The Supermum Myth
And 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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
Firing up the cylinders
The idea of going to a Pilates class when you’re feeling low on energy is, sadly, an unappealing one. I’ve been there, at the end of a...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
The 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...
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Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
The A game
Anxiety. The monkey that sits atop our shoulder, wriggling and jiggling, weighing down and informing thoughts, which become our...
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