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Realistic self care, mindset and resilience tools for mums. Helping women adjust and to, and thrive in motherhood.

Raise Up Mums provides health and wellness tools for mums. Guidance on simple self care, realistic nutrition, stress reduction, healthy habits and a positive mindset that incorporate into frantic parenting life without having to find extra time the day. Join the Raise Up Mums Community (through the "visit group" button on the page, book a space on a workshop, or join the Raise Up Mums Club - a 6 month online program to re-claim your life beyond motherhood (doors for this open again in April, get in touch to be added to the waitlist).

19/08/2026

The pressure of creating fun summer memories is always there, but even more so when you're starting to feel like you're running out of summers with your (young) kids. The challenge is to not let that pressure wind you up so tightly that you can't let loose.

*I meant to post this the first week of the holidays. Then the holidays happened.

*This pressure scenario also goes for dates or nights out, too if you don't have them regularly btw.

22/05/2026

It's been a good week with lots of good little moments (and one root canal) that I felt like sharing - might share something like this every week because it feels fun?

Maybe share a snippet from your week that's stayed with you to make it a communal thing?
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Happy long weekend everyone!

01/04/2026

The background: an after school sports activity that kids had to be driven to. We had 20 minutes to make a 25 minute drive (strike on against my anxious brain), down narrow country lanes (strike two) with limited parking once you get there (strike three) - nearly enough for me to refuse to take her but she loves it and it was promising to be a sunny day so that outweighed the horrors. I considered asking if I could pick her up early but that would have embarrassed her too much. Lots of parents were looking for lifts for their kids. I knew people would see me getting in the car with just my child, so I felt I had to let them know why I couldn't offer. No child but my own needs to witness me pep talking my way through oncoming traffic with limited space for passing, or repeating to myself over and over again that where we'd parked was going to be fine. My kids are used to this and I'm ok with them seeing me manage my through my anxieties - other kids, not so much. (Also - looking after other people's kids is kind of a BIG responsibility!).

So I opted for honesty and posted the above. I didn't expect replies and there weren't any. I got the odd sarcastic 'you made it then' on the day, but that's it. And I can live with that. And maybe it made someone feel like they can honour their limits next time, too 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Overall I think we could do with making our anxieties, mental health wobbles, boundaries and general limits more visible. Could I have pushed through and given some lifts? Probably. But I would have fretted so much more than I already did and my comfort and sanity matters, too.

I have another example I'll share another day but for now I'd love to hear about ways that you've looked after yourself and your wellbeing in ways that might have raised eyebrows (doesn't have to be parenting related at all).
The more out there, the better!

27/03/2026

Re-introduction Part 2 of 2. An origin story if you will.

From Germany to the UK, via a brief, but life changing stint in the US. From working in TV to retraining in massage and starting a number of businesses around the kids. Through to covid, health scares and perimenopause - all of which I'm still recombobulating myself from. That's the short version. Scroll through the images for the lengthy, wildly cathartic version (with pictures!). Prizes for anyone who reads the whole thing....

Does this mean I'll start posting regularly again? Who knows. But I do know that I want this to feel fun again (like it did in the early days), without pressure or worries about the algorithm, so it'll have to be in line with that.

Thank you for being here and being lovely.

25/03/2026

Name change = a re-introduction! (part 1 of 2)

I've been sharing a mishmash of things under the Raise Up Mums business name here for quite a while and felt the time was right to change the handle to my name, to make it less confusing (for me as much as anyone else!).

First up, what topics you can expect to see. As tempting as it is to lean fully into my name and pivot to woodland fairy content, I'll be posting about the different things I do for work, alongside things that affect and interest me personally. That's basically massage, motherhood, midlife and anything loosely related to those topics. My plan is to somehow amalgamate all of these things into *something* this year (the how is yet to reveal itself 😆) but the name change feels like a good first step.
Suggestions on a postcard (honestly, I'd love some post).

Scroll on through the images for more information!

Photo credit for the first slide goes to the wonderful and full disclosure, this was way before Covid, so a slightly out of date picture

29/12/2025

Just love them.
That's my only teen parenting tip.

When you think they need more discipline - love.

When you think you've told them off too much - tell them you love them, despite everything else.

When you worry that they want to look just like everyone else - tell them you love how they look.

Always love.
It'll get reflected back (at varying intervals, but it will.)

22/12/2025

Perimenopause would have me believe it's the former - 'I just can't do as much as I used to'. And while that's maybe a little bit true,a big part of me is simply not prepared to do as much and feel stretched too thin week after week (month/year/decade).

The run up to xmas is always rushed and frantic but we're quite low key in comparison to most (we don't host, barely travel, have small families and older kids) yet I found myself feeling physically fizzy and shaky in a way that positively circled the drain of a panic attack.

Then I realised something - this is how I used to feel ALL OF THE TIME.

So frantic and anxious in the mornings that I could barely hold a thought or string a sentence. Powered through all unwelcome sensations with productivity to feel a sense of control. At some point in the afternoon I'd start to mellow out a bit with the realisations that I could in fact make it through the day.

Rinse and exhaustedly repeat.

But I don't do that anymore. I make time to rest and to look after myself. I leave blank space in the diary. And when that's threatened, old patterns return. But that's ok, because life happens and December decembers. It doesn't have to become the norm again.

I hope everyone is doing ok with Christmas prep. Not only is it a lot to organise and make happen, it's also a tricky time of year for many in a multitude of ways. Be kind to yourself in all the ways that feel possible and enjoy the parts of the festivities that feel good to you.

18/12/2025

Favourite listens of 2025. My aim was to read more this year, and although I did manage a few physical books, bed time reading lasts about 5 minutes before I get too sleepy.

I walk and walk and clean and clean though, so - audiobooks were excellent companions.

These were my absolute favourites, in no particular order.

📖Beartown - I lived inside this trilogy for 3 utterly obsessed weeks. The characters will forever stay with me and I won't look at the number 16 or cherry blossoms the same ever again.

📖All Fours - very, very 😳 but very, very good. Listened to it twice. Perimenopause changes all of us and this character embarks on quite the trip.

📖The Names - I thought the parallel universe type storytelling would annoy me but it didn't. I was rooting for each version for different reasons. Deeply upsetting, but very good.

📖The Wedding People - Invested from the first sentence. Wonderful characters and both dark and funny.

📖Anxious People - Whatever Backman writes, I will read from now on. Initially irked that the characters were super rude, they restored faith in unconditional human goodness in the end.

📖Remarkably Bright Creatures - Only read this because it was recommended so much. Couldn't see myself liking a story from the perspective of an octopus. How wrong I was. Such a brilliant story.

📖Selfish Girls - Love a good generational trauma based story and these sisters pulled me right in. Beautifully told.

📖Sandwich- A lovely, easy listen about midlife and motherhood.

Thoughts on any of these? And have you read anything good that you could share? My 'listen next' list is long but there's always room for more!

12/12/2025

Follow me for more mental health tips 😆.

Seriously though - do try it and let me know how it goes. I feel like I'm onto something.

*Coincidentally one of my words for 2026 is whimsical. More on that another day.

08/12/2025

I got a lot of messages when I posted this on my stories the other day, so felt it deserved a place on the grid.

Here's to us striking precarious balances, based on knowledge of our kids and gut feelings.

All of this is impossible to get 'right', which is one of the hardest things about parenting. We won't know for decades in which ways we've done well and in what ways we messed up.
But we make choices that feel like the right ones at the time every day over and over. And that's all we can do.

I wish I could discuss parenting in detail like I could when they were little. I miss the sharing of 'I'm so glad it's not just me'. DMs are always open for confidential chats. X

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