Anxiety Recap For Surviving Lockdown
This is my first new post in a long time. Those of you who follow The Butterfly Mother Facebook page will be up to speed but I’ve desperately neglected the actual blog for a while…
Tag: mindfulness
Pregnant After Postnatal Depression & Anxiety – Third Trimester
The overwhelm is real, people. With less than a fortnight to go Anxiety has definitely come nipping at my heels in recent days. I expected this, of course, but it still takes lots of hard…
PND & Anxiety: ‘Fourth Trimester’ Survival Kit
Thanks to everyone who watched today’s Facebook Live (if you missed it, click here). I want to do everything I can to avoid experiencing PND & Anxiety following my current pregnancy and one of the…
Pregnant After Postnatal Depression & Anxiety – Second Trimester
I’m a little behind on this post as, at almost 31 weeks, I’m well into the third trimester now. But there’s so much I want to catalogue from this pregnancy and I want to help…
Pregnant After PND – Balancing Expectations
I’m now 24 weeks pregnant and as the anxiety about the pregnancy itself begins to ease I allow myself to imagine life as a mum of two. Unrealistic expectations were a big trigger for my…
Mindfulness: Five Daily Techniques For Anxiety Recovery
Practising mindfulness and learning how to be present was a huge tool for me during Anxiety recovery. Anxiety thrives on future worries; if you take the future out of the equation and live in the…
Pregnant After Postnatal Depression & Anxiety – First Trimester
Anyone who didn’t read my last post should probably go back and take a look before reading this one! But in short, for anyone brand new, I experienced severe PND and Anxiety following the birth…
Ten Mental Wellbeing Mantras For Mums
A few months back I created the post and printable 10 Affirmations For Anxiety Sufferers and wrote about how positive thinking, mantras and affirmations were more than just hippy nonsense and can actually contribute hugely…
Creative Kids: The Perfect Craft for Non-Crafty People
Welcome back to Creative Kids – where I share guest bloggers and the art, craft & messy play activities they get up to with their kids. Today I’m sharing an absolute classic paper craft that definitely deserves a…
Creative Kids: Five Fun Mindfulness Activities for Children
Welcome back to Creative Kids – where I share guest bloggers and the art, craft & messy play activities they get up to with their kids. Regular readers know what a huge fan I am of mindfulness &…