Mamahood Our Way

When we say boundaries we can often jump to saying NO - but where else can boundaries support (and protect!) our mental health in motherhood? Claire share’s a few ideas and some stories of where boundaries have got the better of her! Listen to the end for an important announcement, Mamahood fam 🧡

It’s mental health awareness month in SA/NSW so I’ve given my co-host a few weeks ago so I can bring you a mini-series to amplify the message - that yours matters 🧡 Over the next four episodes I’ll share 6 life-changing tools that have helped me heal from PND and feel like my head is in a good place again ✨ But first, here’s a speedy zip through my own mental health struggles, and some reflections on why talking about it helps 🧡

Another thing society has an opinion on as well as how you conceive, birth, feed and sleep your baby is how MANY babies you have. And when it comes to our choice (shock horror, we are actually doing Mamahood the same here), we’re ‘doing it wrong’. Here we share our very different journeys that have lead to the same outcome of being one and done (with one of us reserving the right to change her mind!)

As always this week’s episode gets into two very different schools of thought, this time around SLEEP! So often the BANE of most parents existence in those first few+ years. CJ1 is team sleep support, CJ2 is go with the flow, and they share their very different experiences in a non-judgey but raw + real way. This one’s for anyone who’s in the thick of trying to sort sleep out, who’s given in or up on even trying to, or even the Mum out the other side but can hard relate. The one thing we DO agree on is that lack of sleep is an absolute f*cker, and you do whatever you need to get through! Claire’s support for sleep came from @holisticsleepmumma 🧡

The poddy has been on a winter break for 3 whole months…it feels like longer, but also yesterday, and a LOT has happened for us all, huh?

We’re well passed the longest day of the year, three new moons have f*cked us all up a little bit, some of us cried a few tears over school holidays and the latest World Cup, our littlies threw approx 962 tantrums….oh, and I found myself a co-host!

As someone (probably) once said, it takes a village to be a podcaster and a parent, and here’s part of mine…fellow toddler boy mama, expat, creator of mamahood her way and all round legend, CJ! In a nutshell she’s the Good Mum to my Wallet Mum, and I’m the Allan to her Barbie 💞

Since change is as good as a rest, episodes will now drop on a THURSDAY, and we’re aiming for weekly but who bloody knows because this toddler mama/biz owner/global financial crisis is a wild ride and we’re all just winging it eh? 😘 It feels SO good to be (almost) back, I’ve so missed being in your ears and chatting all things Mamahood and beyond 😝

Wow, the end of an era…well, sort of! It’s the end of season 1! I hadn’t planned to have seasons but I’m all about living into our seasons soooo it makes total sense I’d apply that to the poddy. What a 9 months it’s been together riding the waves of what ‘our way’ means in mamahood 🧡 Keep up the self-care work, Mama, and I’ll see you in August 🫶

It’s the one you asked for over on the gram! The how, the why, the when and the wild ride that has been resigning from my job of 6 years, and where to next! In this episode I share a little bit about the long winding road, ups and downs, highs and lows to get here, and the thing that made me take the plunge. Finally! 🧡

In this episode I share some of the key lessons in being very intentional with my birthday, and how I chose to design it in a way that brought me the most happiness - it wasn’t without its mental challenges but it’s a work in progress for sure 🫶 We also chat about how you could use this in your own Mothers Day plans ✨

Join me this week as I lift the lid on my current mindset project - overcoming a special kind of Mum Guilt - capital M, capital G!

Spicy 🌶️ and trigger warning re: birth trauma/premature births. A birth announcement over the weekend on my socials really f*cked me off. In this ep I’m sharing where I think we can do better and why 💥

In this ep I’m joined by my ultimate hero, my own Mama! I share things I’ve never told her before. She shares her take on self-care, what Me Time means to her now versus when she was a young Mum, and what she thinks of Mamahood My Way (no filter!) So grab a cuppa and join us for this chinwag on all things Mamahood, and doing it your way!

This week I’m spilling the tea on my shit week, the ongoing mental health issues stemming from Bears birth, and what I did to help myself through it over a few days. We all have days/weeks/months like this, so how can we get ourselves out the other side quicker? Please rate, review and share in your stories if this resonated, Mama 🧡 ILY!

I asked for it, you brought the spice 🔥 How many kids do you want? Why do you and your husband sleep in separate beds? How’s the sleep regression going? What’s your most toxic trait? Warning, it gets a little fiery so make sure you have a cup of something stronger than coffee in hand 😝

‘Finding time’ doesn’t have to be a mission, there are tiny steps we can take today to create pockets that get to feel less frantic…even spacious! I’ve been into hacking productivity since she was a student and corner cutting exam revision was her #1 goal! In this episode I share everything (ok, a fair chunk of what) I know on getting shit done without sacrificing ourselves in the process 🔥

Join me + fellow toddler mama, Cat, for a journey through our experiences of long haul travel recently with our toddlers. We share the good, the bad and the ugly - not that there was much of the latter, thank feck as we were both sh*t scared beforehand! If you’re thinking about an overseas holiday this year with your under 2(s) Mama, this ep will hold you through it 🫶🎉

In this episode I take you through my end of year ritual where I reflect, reset and activate for the best 2023 ahead! I do this every year as a dossier of what I’ve achieved, what I’m grateful for and as compass for how I want things to go in the 12 months to follow. If you’d like to join an online session to go through this practice with other mamas shoot me a DM as a workshop is in the making 🫶

The first ep in the Mamahood Unfiltered series goes genitals first into all things GENDER…Mama of 3 boys, Monika, joins me for a vino and a deep dive into gender stereotypes, how they crop up in parenthood, and how we can raise a more aware, less gender-obsessed generation of humans 💪🏻

You know that thing you’ve wanted to do since forever? Run a 5km, learn French, book that trip to Japan, join a singing class, make a new bestie…we all have that thing on our heart that we think about often, yet do nothing about. Well it’s not entirely our fault, we can blame our physiological makeup…but we still want to do the thing, so how do we get around it? Well, hit play to find out, Mama 🧡Hot recco of the week is the Doggyland album by Snoop Dogg - hip hop nursery rhymes for a welcome change to the Wiggles!

Clue to the question in the title of this episode: EVERYWHERE!In this sassy ep we get under the hood of ‘Good Enough Parenting’, how it stacks up against ‘Gentle’ or ‘Attached’ parenting, and practical ways we can make good enough work for us. For Claire, it’s a step too far to negotiate footwear choices with a toddler! And of course, the usual truth bombs are scattered throughout 🫶