Wellthy Living for mums

03/11/2025

It's in the Bag is Share the Dignity's much loved Christmas appeal where you can lovingly pack a bag full of essentials to help a vulnerable woman or girl.

25/10/2025

Every ending is an invitation to reconnect: with ourselves, our stories, and what’s unfolding next.

This week I realised that as parents we spend years capturing our kids milestones, but we don’t often pause and mark that their milestones are ours too.

The past week has been a big one, the closing of a huge chapter as my youngest finishes school.

While journalling, I realised how powerful it is to pause, reflect, and actually feel these milestones.

Over the past few months , I’ve been creating a series of Wellthy Living Reflective Reset guides, and I felt called to create one for this moment too.

It’s called The Reflective Reset: When Your Youngest Finishes School.

It’s not a “how-to.” Just five reflective questions to help you pause, honour what’s ending, and open up to what’s next.

It’s free to download if it speaks to you:
https://mailchi.mp/ba32b9a0518e/the-reflective-reset-when-your-youngest-finishes-school

If your youngest hasn’t finished yet, this might be something to tuck away for when the time comes, or perhaps you have a friend who’s in it right now that you can share it with.

Reflection guides us to connection and connection is how we live well!

12/09/2025

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25/08/2025

Worth considering ….

19/08/2025

Totally agree. There should be a compulsory subject in senior school that teaches life skills needed by all individuals regardless of their pathway.

This example focusses mainly on understanding finances but even simple skills like jump starting a car or changing a tyre, along with resume writing, critical thinking, and first aid.

Some would argue this is a parents job and perhaps it should be, however considering all kids need these skills then I would argue teaching them collectively makes sense.

What are your thoughts?

20/06/2025

What teenage boys are trying to tell us and why we need to start listening.

I’ve spent decades working in wellbeing, much of it supporting women. I know the importance of self-worth and of lifting girls and women up and helping them find their voice. But in recent years, as a mum to a son and through countless honest conversations with boys, young men, and mothers of boys, I’ve started to truly see what’s happening for them.

They’re not broken, but they are confused. Unsure how to show up without being judged. Constantly second-guessing how to be in a world that keeps changing the rules without including them in the rewrite.

I wrote this article for Men’s Health Week, but the message extends far beyond that. It’s not a defence of toxic behaviour or a call to swing the pendulum back, it’s an invitation to broaden the conversation, based on what I’ve been seeing and hearing.

I’d really love to hear your thoughts, especially from parents, teachers, and anyone raising or working with boys. Let’s open this up.

And if this resonates, please share it. These are conversations we need more of



Maggie Dent Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families Rebecca Sparrow

In a world that’s fighting hard for equality, boys are quietly slipping through the cracks. Let’s stop talking about them and start…

29/03/2025

There’s a much talk about boys/ men and emotiobsl intelligence and the need for healthy masculinity.

So I thought I’d share this list of men’s events for the men in your life who may be interested.

26/03/2025

I don’t see myself as an out of touch parent. I have always and continue to have lots of open and honest conversations with my kids, however sometimes it’s like they speak a different language. Between acronyms and slang it’s not easy to keep up.

Watching Adolescence was an eye opener to not necessarily the themes but the definitely the language and social groups formed online. I hadn’t come across the Incel culture. So if you, like me want to understand it more, this post is helpful.

The world of our young people can be tricky to navigate and it takes a collective effort of learning, understanding and supporting them. This Netflix series has certainly opened up many peoples eyes and important conversations are being had.

25/03/2025

So powerful.