Reading Time: 9 minutes I didn’t hear about the fourth trimester until I was an already 26-week pregnant mother to be. It was during my prenatal yoga class one morning, when our teacher was discussing the benefits of babywearing as we got reading to head out.  “Fourth trimester!?” I remember being stunned, images coming into my mind of gargantuan […] The post 8 Women on Their Fourth Trimester Experience appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes I remember being pregnant, fearing how lonely the journey would be. I didn’t have my ‘tribe’ of mothers everyone talked about. I didn’t have those ‘mom nights’ planned out. Sadly, those are just two reasons moms end up suffering from overwhelm! Want to know what else is sad? So many of us just accept this […] The post Reasons Moms Suffer from Overwhelm appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 9 minutes I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who didn’t want to figure out how to be more productive at home. I’ve met people who wanted to learn how to stop drinking so much Coca Cola, or how to stop having anxiety in their relationship. But I’ve never met anyone who’s like “yep.. That’s enough efficiency […] The post How To Be Productive At Home {Ultimate Guide} appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 8 minutes How do you cope with a bad mental health day usually? Under the covers, go full Bridget Jones with some Ben and Jerry’s? Make poor choices? Maybe you try to ignore it and plod along like nothing’s happening.  I’m a firm believer in tackling things pretty much as soon as they crop up (after years […] The post 12 Ways To Take a Mental Health Day Off appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 7 minutes In a land before baby, even before marriage, I didn’t worry about having too much clutter around. My living space was mine alone and I lived an almost bare essential, minimalist existence, stripped of sentimental objects and tokens.  Not now though.  Life now is proper adulting with a husband and a daughter and a cat. […] The post Too Much Clutter? Here’s How To Deal appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m like 80,000% sure that at least one of my friends has Googled “gifts for people with anxiety” in relation to buying a gift for me before. I can’t blame them, it is a pretty defining characteristic of my personality (hello blog title). It got me thinking about how many other people wondered what anxious […] The post 9 Gifts for People with Anxiety appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 6 minutes Deciding to include self-discovery writing in your weekly or monthly self-care routine is one of the greatest things you can do to turn around negative self-talk. The post How to Start a Self-Care Journal appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you are a new parent, odds are you have read about or been told about the importance parenting and attachment styles. It comes up in almost every discussion on childhood development and parenting. There is extensive research examining parent-child attachment and what exactly it means for our children’s development! *This is a Guest Post and all […] The post A New Parent’s Guide to Attachment Styles appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 8 minutes In our world of instant gratification, we want our discomfort and anxiety to go away in an instant. And there are certainly things you can do that will have an immediate effect on your anxiety. And of course, there is always medication. But there are some easy, holistic ways to relieve your stress and reduce […] The post 9 Foods That Help Reduce Anxiety (and 3 Foods That Make It Worse!) appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more

Reading Time: 6 minutes The part that always impressed me most about time travel movies wasn’t the hoverboards or Doc’s incredible sense of fashion. Nope. It was the fact that the protagonist usually had the ability to relay information to their past self to help their future self. Now if I could write a letter to my younger self, […] The post 6 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self appeared first on This Anxious Mum ..read more