Hey there, Mama. Take a deep breath for a second. If you’re reading this while hiding in the loo for two minutes of peace, or while eating a cold lunch at your desk between end-to-end Teams meetings, I want you to know something: You are doing a phenomenal job. But I know that’s not what that ...
Poems About Mom Guilt: Truths For When You Feel Like You’re Failing
If you’re reading this, welcome; I want to start by saying something: you’re not a bad mom. I know that might sound throwaway line-ish, but I mean it with everything inch of my being. The fact that you’re even searching for poems about mom guilt tells me your heart is full, not empty. It tells ...
Poems About Strength: Finding Power in Verse
When life is challenging or overwhelming, we have the option of turning to art and creativity for comfort and inspiration. Now poetry - with its magical way of distilling complex emotions into words, has long been a source of resilience for readers around the world - including me, and in this post, ...
Why I’ve Temporarily Come Off Instagram (& Other Recent Musings)
I'll say it bluntly. Words are my thing. Which is why I've come off Instagram. I love writing, pretty much as much as I love my garden, or my kids (OK, maybe not that much, lol, buy you get the gist) Which is why I run this blog, and why I work professionally as a copywriter and marketer. But ...
The Radical Act of Softening: Why Motherhood Demands a Reconstruction (Not a Return)
In this modern parenting space we find ourselves in, we're going through what I can only describe as a busyness pandemic. Everywhere you look, there's noise. Movement. Pressure. Expectations whispering that we should be 'doing more, achieving more, bouncing back faster' yada yada yada. As a ...
Short Poems to Uplift and Encourage
A gentle breath for moms and busy women who carry the whole world in their minds. Some days, life feels loud. SUPER LOUD. The living room's full of noise, the to-do list stretches into forever, and your heart is carrying complex emotions no one else can see. You love your family. You care ...
The Motherhood Manual They Forgot to Write: 5 Truths To Set You Free
Modern motherhood is truly a landscape of contradictions. We're flooded with advice from every corner; books, social media, well-meaning relatives and yet, it’s easy to feel completely unseen in your real, day-to-day struggles. The pressure to be perfect, to “do it all,” and to feel nothing but ...
A Gentle Guide to the Emotional Load Of Motherhood
You've Got This, Mama Welcome. The journey you're on as a mom is one of the most profound experiences life has to offer - a beautiful and complex path filled with incredible joy, fierce love, unexpected challenges, and, at times, completely overwhelming feelings that you just don't know what ...
You Are Not Behind (Even If It Feels Like Everyone Else Is Ahead)
There is a certain kind of ache that settles quietly. Sometimes it shows up in the evening, when the house is finally still. And other times, it sneaks in while you’re scrolling, or maybe standing in the kitchen, or even watching someone else step into a life milestone you thought you’d have reached ...
Poetry on Mothers: Where Love & Motherhood Meet
If there’s one thing that carries us mothers through the (seemingly eternal) early mornings, hard times, and everything else in between… it’s our own, ever flowing, love we feel for our babies; a love that grows roots and blossoms like flowers (even when we feel absolutely cream-crackered - ...
Beautiful Poems for Her: A Stimulating Selection
If you’ve ever sat with a notebook in hand, heart full, mind racing, trying to find the right words to tell your best friend or even your sister/relative just how much she means to you, you’ll know that friendship, love and language have always danced together in form or other. Across ...
In the Blink of an Eye: Poems About Living Life
Before we start, know this; I am a classic, stereotypical 'existentialist' if ever there was one. In fact, I tend to live life through the lens of, "If I were to die tomorrow, would I be happy with how I've lived/behaved/treated others today?" Seriously, this is me. And this, I find, is reflected ...
