Parents & Carers

Do you care for your kids?

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Care for yourself?

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Act as carer in a role at work?​

 

If we selflessly give, over time we become depleted. We need to balance our caring roles with self-care.

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When I started this journey, my sense of over-responsibility kept me on edge, pushing, and not able to find my balance.

 

This impacted my relationships, work, and sense of wellbeing, leading to burnout. I was so invested, already run ragged with an overly full schedule, that I could not stop pushing because I wasn’t ready to hear how to do it or to make space to fit it in.

 

I had written tips for parents at all stages of development; based on my own experience as well as developmental, parenting and attachment theories. I wrote about my adjustment to parenting as a type A perfectionist (my first book, Mums the Word). I even wrote about how we all need to create time for ourselves as new parents (my second book, The Practical Parent: Guide of Serial Sevens) before I started to make the time for myself.

 

Then I realised that I needed to consider that the carer needs care too. And it doesn’t have to mean an about turn, a sudden change of everything. But it does require a shift, an acknowledgement that the current trajectory will wear you down completely.

 

I took the first step in caring for myself so I could care for others.

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" the carer needs care too"

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Please click the link below to explore how you can take the first step toward feeling restored, steady, and supported.