"You need to fill your cup before you can fill anyone else's"...

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Great advice, but it took me over 6 years to really comprehend what it really meant!  I couldn't stop the day-job, my 'free-time' (time is never really free in motherhood) whizzed by, and my children continued to get older by the day, week, year. There simply wasn't much opportunity to put myself first.

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Would an evening on the sofa, a take-out or early night count as self-care? Even when I managed to do them, I couldn't switch my mind off - there were too many jobs and my mind was always racing.

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Self-care, I discovered, was not a one-off activity, not even a weekly routine or annual holiday. It is, in fact a life-style choice. One that starts with nurturing your mind, body and soul.

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I wouldn't dream of telling you what self-care looks like to you, but for me, it was finding time for a morning or evening routine of meditation, enriching books and time to reflect on life and connect with what matters.

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I found every time I deviated from my morning self-care routine, my mind and body would quickly call out to me how much it missed and needed it.

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As a post-natal depression and anxiety survivor, I was drawn to help others who are going through what I did.  I know how lonely and utterly debilitating these conditions can be, I couldn't bare to think of other's feeling that way.

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I have compiled a series of self-help, care and discovery tips, which were pivotal in my own journey of recovery.  Have a look, maybe even try a few...  I hope that one or more might strike a chord with your beliefs and values.

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Please note, these were written with love and hopes of helping other.  If you would like to talk to me about the ideas in them, please get in touch.