Positive thinking

Working on and improving your mindset is paramount to your mental health and quality of life. This category offers a supportive space to understand the importance of mindset shifts, gratitude and reframing challenges to overcome adversity and find joy in single motherhood.

Positive thinking

Embrace Change in your Life for a Powerful Fresh Start

Don’t you just love spring? This season always stirs something in me! I guess it’s the flowers blooming where there used to be bare branches, or the quiet nudge that it’s time to clear out the old and make space...

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The benefits and challenges of being a single parent

According to The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, there are around 949,000 single-parent families in the country, of which 65% had dependents living with them. Single parent families are on the rise worldwide, due to a number of reasons....

Being a single mum makes me a better parent | Beanstalk Mums

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Why being a single mum makes me a better parent

When I look back over the last decade of my life I feel a little baffled. I certainly never expected to be a divorced single mum. Not in a million years. I married because I was madly in love and...

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...

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Why parenting alone has made me the best version of myself

When I chose to exit my marriage, my ex chose to exit the country. I was suddenly the sole parent of – and the sole provider for – my 15 month-old son. I still actually had a job at this...

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How I saved and took my kids to Disneyland

25 November 2017 She’s been all over social media with her brilliant (if slightly teary) video telling her three children that they were going to save and they were going to Disneyland. And to Disneyland they went! In this podcast...

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Why dreaming isn’t everything but it certainly helps

There is nothing more inspiring than a single mum who has taken on the world and lived to tell her story! That is exactly what Lisa Burling has done. From standing in a Centrelink queue wondering ‘how did it come...

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How to make positive change and live your best life

Life can get crazy busy as a single mum. Just getting through the day-to-day is a challenge. Yet, for many of us there comes a time when we stop, take a breath and think ‘this is not enough for me’....

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Helping single mums with money mindset

19 September 2017 I believe everything happens for a reason. And there was most definitely a reason for me meeting the much-loved Denise Duffield-Thomas, founder of Lucky Bitch. Long-story-short, (did I mention I MET Denise Duffield-Thomas?) she agreed to chat...

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Turn self sabotage into motivation

I love doing podcasts that really get me thinking, which is exactly what this one did. Here we discuss the highly interesting topic of self-sabotage with international mindset and identity specialist, Sue Lester from Growing Content. Sue is an expert...