Too many contradictions in that title? Then this blog post is for you!

By now Silly Season is well and truly upon us, and if you’re feeling overwhelmed already it’s not too late to press pause and reset. Here are some suggestions for how to do that:

When somebody starts therapy sessions with me, an important part of our work is to fully acknowledge and give credit to them for looking for support, even though they may have had some, or all, of the doubts below. It is completely normal to have concerns before starting anything new, and everyone I have worked with has had at least one of the worries below before they started therapy. And as I share at the end, I had some of them myself before I started therapy!

When I first became a mother, I couldn’t believe how so people suddenly became an expert on how I should be mothering my baby, and living my life, and how they assumed I was interested in hearing their (many!) opinions. This blog post describes the framework I work through with mums to help them to understand why people don’t seem to understand how unhelpful this advice is, and how mums can best support themselves in the midst of all of this noise.