Maintaining Your Own Identity in Motherhood

Motherhood and Identity

Women are often considered guilty of “losing their identity” once they become a mother.

Friends lightheartedly complain that their once-lively social media feeds are now purely full of baby photos, or that conversation seems to only swing in the direction of sleep routines and exploding nappy anecdotes. 

Exercise buddies or other hobby partners (correctly) quip “haven’t seen you in a while” and “miss you!”. 

Talk of girls nights on the town are promised but never gotten around to. 

And let’s not forget there are still many women who are considered to be less qualified for their previous career, simply because they now have a child.

It’s true, for many women it seems like once they have a baby that their whole life becomes about their child. 

That’s because it does. 

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Self Care Tips and Strategies

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One of my favourite self care strategies – bath time with scented candles

Self Care is an incredibly important part of looking after your mental health, physical health, and your health in general.

Self Care is defined as the actions we can take as individuals to help maintain or heighten our health, wellbeing and wellness.

In terms of mental health then, self care is a valuable tool.

You don’t have to be struggling mentally to indulge in self care strategies, in fact, I believe it’s import to make self care a part of your regular routine, in order to help maintain your mental health.

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