Ever want to scream, "WHAT ABOUT ME?"
If you had to count the number of things you did on any one day this week - how many would there be?
Cooking. Eating. Cleaning. Cooking again. Washing up. Sorting laundry. Soothing. Working. Feeding. Refereeing. Playing. Shouting. Crying. Teaching (ish). Wiping. Hugging. Hoovering…
The list goes on...
#Mumlife
How many, if any, of those things were just for you?
When our children are tiny, the clamour for our constant attention can be overwhelming – you are serving needs, constantly. Having a wee without an audience is self-care. As our children get older, their emotional needs don’t lessen, but they change. And still our priority is beyond our selves. I read a quote recently that said motherhood is your heart forever walking around outside of you.
Do you remember you pre-kids? Depending on the age of your off-spring, this may be recent, or some years back. How did you look after yourself? Did you take vitamins? Go to the gym? Eat well? What about now?
Let me ask you this: if you had to give your energy a mark out of 10 each day, what would the average be?
Most mums that come to see me put their energy around 3-5 mark. Maybe 6 on a good day. I get them to a steady 8 or 9 far faster than they imagined possible.
The mistake we can make as mums is not taking the time to look to our own needs. We think of them – then forget we thought of them, because we just heard the bathroom holler of, “Mummy, I’m FINISHED!” or intervening when two siblings start screaming, or right now, responding to, “Mum, I don’t understand my maths/English/topic…” There’s just always something. Or ten things.
But here’s the thing. Nothing changes. We put our health to the bottom of our to-do list because there isn’t time right in front of us. But there never will be as long as we are raising kids. So, do we put our health off until they leave home? Put up with those menstrual migraines, the perimeno-rage, the crap libido, that fat around our middle that WILL NOT SHIFT. What about the anxiety you feel? Your frustration with always. Feeling. Knackered.
From my perspective as a nutritional therapist that works with mums, I KNOW that you can feel better if you work with me. I’ve seen it many, many times, with women who come to me not really believing they can feel better – and then I watch their energy shift from minimal to maximum in the space of a month or two. Their reaction is always brilliant to see.
Aukje was a working mum struggling with symptoms of perimenopause when she first came to see me:
“I really thought I was following a healthy diet that was good for me and in the first instance I thought nutritional therapy wouldn’t make much of a difference. However, I was so desperate to get myself back that I gave it a try and I still cannot believe the massive improvement the right diet has given me. Absolutely incredible. Finding food that I like, which at the same time makes me feel better is a completely new world for me.”
What I do as a nutritional therapist is get to know your routine, your lifestyle, your challenges – and I take the sting out of the changes that will transform how you feel.
If you’d like to talk to me about the one health goal you’d like to achieve in 2021, book a Discovery call. A free 20-minute chat, I’ll tell you how I would make nutritional therapy work for your #mumlife. Click here to find a time that suits you.