When we become a mother, we look to our own mother, to our husband, to our friends, to our peers, to our elders, to the media, to the world, to see what we should be doing and how we should be doing it ‘right’. But what if everyone around us is …
How to Live a Happy and Healthy Life
Cameron Rogers knows how to live a healthy life… and it’s more than just eating a bunch of superfoods and going for a run. You need to feed your soul, too. By Nicole Fuge, MD® Managing Editor Which is why the 30-year-old New Yorker up and left her corporate career in …
In a Funk? Here’s how to Feel Like Yourself Again
Feeling a bit bleh? I get it. It’s been a LOOONG couple of years and 2020/2021/2022 [WTF!] has thrown us more than its fair share of curveballs. This means many of our routines have been tossed in the bin, especially working from home. By Fran Dargaville, Functional Nutritionist Anyone who has …
How to Practise Self Love and Take Care of Yourself First
I love that the word ‘self love’, or ‘selfish’ is no longer being used as a negative in my mind. Being selfish, in a way that doesn’t take away from others, is crucial to me and my happiness. By Angela Simson But I wasn’t always like this. I used to people …
[Guest Editor] Revie Jane: From Breakdown to Breakthrough
By Revie Jane Motherhood: it’s been one of the most profound and joyful experiences of my life but, like many, it has come with challenges and uncertainty. From the start, I felt enormous pressure to meet not only my own expectations of what it means to be a good mum, …
Mama, R U OK? It’s OK to not be OK
By Yakira Giger R U OK? My automatic reply is always “Yes, I’m fine.” *Smile and wave, smile and wave…* But why? Why do we feel so CONCERNED about voicing the way we REALLY feel? When in fact, what we really want to say is: “Actually, no – I’m not. I …
How to Improve Your Wellbeing and Resilience
Resilience is usually developed over a lifetime – but since 2020, we’ve taken a crash-course in it! We had to deal with a new sense of normal. We had to learn how to work from home, how to homeschool our bambinos, and how to find different ways of spending our time when …
How to Balance Working from Home and Motherhood
By Mama Disrupt® Two years into this sh*tstorm and so many mums are still working from home while taking care of the kids full-time. To say it’s a struggle is a massive understatement. So if you have your kids at home with you, you’re no doubt trying to balance their schedule …
Time To Hit The Reset Button? Try These Realistic Goal Setting Tips
By Kerrie Simon-Lawrence It’s that time of year, when we feel the need to hit the reset button. Set resolutions. Start goal setting. Maybe you’ve already started making promises. There is something about New Year’s Eve that gives us the sense that anything is possible. But as those first, fresh …
Overcoming Postnatal Anxiety and Depression… Twice
By Kelly, PANDA Champion This is my story of how I recovered from Postnatal Anxiety and Depression not once, but twice. It started when I was 20 weeks pregnant I lost my job and unfortunately, it didn’t end well. The next 20 weeks I had at home and while I …