Helping Mums Embrace Gentle Living & Easy Journaling

Sparkle Tips: Worrying About Wearing A Bikini?

For years I have worried about wearing a bikini, so much so that it put me off beach holidays. Add to that the fact that hairy northern hubby and I didn’t gell so well on beach holidays; I liked lots of romantic attention and sunbathing/reading and he liked ‘doing’ stuff.  So for years we did […]

Sparkle Tips: Hair Accessories

Welcome to my first Sparkle Tip, yay!  It’s also the official announcement of my new book which will be available from September called ‘Six Weeks To A Sparkling You’.  At the moment my lovely guinea pigs are just making sure that it really is as simple as possible for you.  I’ll be giving you loads […]

Weight Loss Tips No11: Dress for self-worth

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

Hopefully by following my 12 months worth of tips, you are now loads fitter and slimmer, but have you broken the pattern of not feeling good about yourself? Now you know that it wasn’t the weight really that made you unhappy with how you looked don’t you? It was how you felt about yourself. If not you […]

Exhaustion Tips: Alcohol

We moved into our town house when I just had a couple of months before Curly Headed Boy was born.  It’s a crescent with 14 houses, and half are full of young families whose babies started to appear 6 weeks after Curly Headed Boy was born.  So it was also pretty sociable, because we were […]

Weight Loss Tips No10: A Simple Detox for your health and life

Weight Loss Tips For Mums

A detox can be a great start to a New Year or Spring when you are feeling a bit stagnant, or Start to a weight loss programme, or boost to a weight loss programme. I watched Channel 4’s Food Hospital program and they pretty much proved that Detox’s don’t do much.  So whatever they do, […]

Top Seven Tips For The Summer Holidays

How to organise a play room

I so look forward to the holidays, but the last half-term was a huge disaster, so much so that I couldn’t bring myself to blog about it.  The big hairy northern one was away, the little irish granny I found in Tescos was ill, and I still had some work to do, despite it being […]

Exhaustion Tips: A Good Declutter is great for the soul!

Normally my little tips about general health are all that’s been needed to boost my energy levels, but there are times in my life when more is needed, and the last few weeks is one of them.  The great news for you is that as I resolve my own energy levels, I’ve been able to […]

Video Wed: Exhaustion Tips: To cheer you up if it’s sleep deprivation

This week I’m combining my Video Wed with the Tips on how to deal with Exhaustion! Sometimes we are just exhausted because we are Mums.  Sometimes it’s because of the pressures of life.  But sometimes it’s because our little blighters / gorgeous children are rubbish sleepers! Mine are rubbish sleepers, I haven’t ‘slept through the […]

Tips for Making a Monthly Plan to avoid overdoing it

So in my last 2 posts, we talked about embracing the exhaustion so that you can find out what caused it and then making a plan to deal with it. Once your back on top, keep your eyes on the rest of my exhaustion tips, because there are still some fabulous ones to come to […]

Exhaustion Tips: Make a Plan

One of the worst things about being exhausted is that the overwhelm means that you can’t see any light at the end of the tunnel.  But there is something that can really help feel like you have it more under control, and that is to make a plan of action.  Yes, some of it might […]