Healing

If you need help with emotional, trauma, mental health or spiritual healing, you’ll find resources here. With a focus on self-compassion and self-love, we share targeted content around mindfulness, meditation, personal growth and women’s empowerment.

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Life After Divorce: 10 Tips to Help You Heal and Start Fresh

So, you’ve gone through a divorce. Welcome to the club no one really wants to join. But once you’re here, you might as well make the most of it, right? I’m here to show you there’s life after divorce. Being...

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What’s a memory jar and how can it help my child?

As the single mother of two young daughters who are experiencing the highs and lows of co-parenting, I’m always looking for ways to make their lives easier. And one of the very best tools I have found is a memory...

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How can I be so busy but still feel so lonely?

Life as a working single mother is crazy-busy, and yet … it can be so very lonely. Anyone else feel this? How can it be that every day is packed full of chores, people and the vibrant chaos of our...

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Helping single mums understand and manage anxiety

Anxiety is part and parcel of daily life … especially as a single mum. Everyone feels anxious at times, but for many single mothers navigating solo-parenting or co-parenting, alongside the financial, practical and emotional stress of “going it alone”, it...

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How to recover from a marriage to a narcissist

You’re exhausted, right? And every day feels like a battlefield? You spend most of the day inside your own head – predicting, analysing, planning, questioning yourself endlessly – working out how reduce the conflict that you know is inevitable. Surviving a...

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Mum anxiety: Coping mechanisms for everyday life

Motherhood is hard sometimes, right? Well, anxiety can sometimes pop up just to make everything a little bit harder. Anxiety as a mother can feel overwhelming, or like you’re losing control, and it can impact you in a mild way...

Finding real you as a single mother | Beanstalk Mums

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Finding the ‘real you’ amid the craziness of being a single mum

Single mums play many roles. From first thing in the morning until last thing at night we can swap our hats faster than a professional hat swapper. This includes being mum, dad, friend, employee, handyman, chef, cleaner, important guest at...

Signs of depression as a single mother | Beanstalk Mums

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How I manage my depression as single mother

As humans we have a myriad of different mood types which we swing through at an alarming rate. Yet, as a single mum, depression may visit you all too frequently. I have been a single parent for eight years and...

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Helping single mums move forward after DV

It is an unfortunate fact that many single mothers have experienced a relationship with domestic violence and are, understandably, struggling to move forward and create a happy, healthy life for themselves and their children. An abusive relationship does not stop...

How to supercharge your self esteem after divorce | Beanstalk Mums

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Supercharging your self esteem after divorce

Maybe you have been there … You believe you have failed at life. You feel fluffy and frumpy and are frozen in time with little sense of how to move forward. The dissolution of your marriage happened slowly with a...