Overstimulation in Motherhood: Navigating the Sensory Storm
Has your role as a full-time snack provider, referee, chauffeur, and personal assistant to a small (and often loud) boss (or multiple bosses all with different agendas and KPIs) left you feeling like you’ve just come out of a Taylor Swift concert…minus the fun? Replace her music with The Wiggles’ ‘mash potato’ on repeat, your […]
Illuminate Case Studies – Amanda Adams
Amanda’s path to motherhood was not an easy one. Highlighted by hardships, including a six-year battle with infertility, by the time her second son was born, Amanda was struggling with sleep deprivation, trying to manage her own business, and shouldering immense self-imposed expectations to be a ‘good mum’. In our first call together, it was […]
Illuminate Case Studies – Jacqui Doyle
Jacqui was working in a part time role, balancing motherhood and busy family life when she joined Illuminate. In amongst all of the busyness, she was struggling to find her sense of self and her bigger purpose. And while being a mum was really important to Jacqui, she was grappling with something a lot of […]
Illuminate Case Studies – Natasha Searle
Natasha’s journey to joining Illuminate began back in mid 2020 when she signed up for one of our free online sessions. After watching the replay, she was curious to find out more and receive some support in motherhood. A full life and a heavy workload, Natasha had some initial doubts about how she was going […]
3 Ways To Find Your Spark
Helping mums find their spark again is truly one of the greatest things about my job as a motherhood coach. It’s a gift that I get to work with women everyday, helping them to reconnect with themselves, reclaim their voice and get clear on their purpose. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. Finding your spark in […]
How to manage decision fatigue
If you’re a Mum, I’m going to guess you’re familiar with decision fatigue. From the moment we wake up, we’re presented with thousands of decisions. How to dress the kids, what to serve for breakfast, what to pack in the school lunches, how to answer your children’s endless questions, and so on. And these are […]
Illuminate Client Spotlight – Renee Lucas
After the birth of her second child, Renee found herself struggling to adjust to motherhood. She’d also recently lost her beloved father, and had moved house, everything felt overwhelming to say the least. Being a mum was wearing her down, and that was coming through in frustration and shortness with her kids. Everything felt like […]
Reasons I got hooked on Sex/Life (other than Brad & Billie)
Have you watched, or are you watching, the Sex/Life Netflix series? I recently started it, was instantly hooked and promptly polished off Season 1 and 2 over successive nights once the kids had gone to bed. Netflix is a new thing in our lives (we are late to the party!), and I’m generally not a […]
Why a retreat?
As you probably know if you’re reading this, I’m a Motherhood Coach, have an online business and predominantly work remotely. So why am I, seemingly all of a sudden, making a song and dance in the past few weeks about the live retreat I’m co-hosting 2-5 May 2023? There’s a few reasons. Firstly, because it’s […]
My word for 2023
Have you come up with your word for 2023? Is this a ritual for you too, or a foreign concept? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, your ‘word’ for the year is a theme and intention that underpins everything about how you’re going to show up for that year (think, feel, act). For […]