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Why am I a Pilates Teacher?
What’s your story? ✨ In The Supermum Myth in one chapter we delve into narrative therapy – we’re all made up of stories and live...
Anya Hayes
May 29, 20172 min read
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Wake up Mama! – Energy Boosters
Happy Bank Holiday! Remember May bank holidays before children? Usually involved lots of sunny Sunday drinking in beer gardens, languidly...
Anya Hayes
May 29, 20174 min read
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Series: What’s in Your Toolkit 5 – Fern Taylor
Instagram connected me to Fern Taylor – her feed is full of mindfulness tips, a love of nature, and a gorgeous cat. Basically all the...
Anya Hayes
May 28, 20174 min read
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Mojo detectives – pelvic floor restore
Mama mojo. That elusive magic ingredient that gets lost somewhere between 3rd trimester cankles and the dark faceless beast of sleep...
Anya Hayes
May 24, 20172 min read
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Mum fail?
This morning brought some more spectacularly misguided comment from the Daily Mail about the state of motherhood, basically summing up in...
Anya Hayes
May 16, 20173 min read
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Series: What’s in your toolkit? 4 – Suzy Reading: Part 1
I first connected with Suzy on Instagram last year, when I sensed a kindred spirit in her posts, an understanding of the relentless...
Anya Hayes
May 15, 20176 min read
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Series: What’s in your toolkit 3 – Emma Cannon
Emma Cannon is a fertility expert, author, natural conception and IVF support acupuncture practitioner, and has been supporting women in...
Anya Hayes
May 8, 20175 min read
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Series: 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 Hayes
May 5, 20175 min read
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Series: What’s in your toolkit? 1 – @mumologist
New Series Klaxon! For the next few weeks I’ll be featuring a few of my favourite wellness, coaching, psychology experts asking them to...
Anya Hayes
May 4, 20178 min read
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Finding Mama’s Mojo
This 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 Hayes
May 4, 20173 min read
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Pregnancy: the Naked Truth
Pregnancy is a bit like the parties you used to go to when you were 15: exhilaratingly new and exciting, full of unknown adventures – a...
Anya Hayes
Apr 28, 20172 min read
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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 in...
Anya Hayes
Apr 24, 20174 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Apr 23, 20175 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Apr 20, 20175 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Apr 17, 20173 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Apr 15, 20174 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Apr 6, 20172 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Mar 18, 20173 min read
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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...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
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The A game
Anxiety. The monkey that sits atop our shoulder, wriggling and jiggling, weighing down and informing thoughts, which become our...
Anya Hayes
Jan 8, 20173 min read
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