So about my day, it generally starts with an early morning wake up call from my favourite little person whispering in my ear “is it 6 yet Mummy!!” The next 45 minutes generally are spent running around breakfast, teeth, packing school bags and asking 100 times for school shoes to be put on. I’m sure you can all relate to this part of the day! Once school drop off is done my 2nd job starts. 

The spa itself is within the fabulous and bustling Brooklands Hotel, but feels like a quiet, cosy nest. At first Megan and I were unsure about a spa without a pool, but as we both admitted, we tend to just use the pool to cool off after a steam or sauna! Instead we would sit outside on the rooftop terrace, snug with a blanket, enjoying the breeze on our freshly buffed and plumped skin.

You clutch your dimpled arms around my neck

The gossamer smoothness of your skin, as

unblemished as your sunny soul

She managed to brush her teeth today

She won a big deal and got her own way

She wants to be heard and have her say

She wants the mean voice in her head to GO AWAY

My typical day varies so much. I have an eleven month old and a four year old who is in reception so I cram as much as I can in between baby groups and school pick up. After school I stop working until the kids are in bed.

Bar the washing up and dusting I love all the elements of my days. I find joy in playing and getting to spend so much time with my daughter, I love and enjoy my work, I find great satisfaction in a hover and I find peace, calm and joy getting out of the house for a dog walk.

I started to realise that prioritising tiny acts of kindness to myself through the day might actually help me. I started to realise that the more self-care I gave myself the nicer a person I was to my family. I started to realise that the more self-car I gave myself the more I encouraged it in my clients. I started to realise the more I looked after myself the more I’d make rapid gains in my business.

In my coaching capacity there’s so many critical words I hear from women using to describe themselves - and I’ve had enough of it. These women are amazing, powerful beings who don’t need all the weight of these words. So I’m suggesting seven brand new alternative diet plans, and it goes a little something like this…

“your noise is only sound

I choose my music, my song,

the fizzy happiness of my soul.

I choose that today.”

In the last few years however, I’ve noticed that I can be somewhat chameleon-like in my relationships: in order to keep everyone happy, I can chop and change so that everything is harmonious. I can be fabulous, noisy, quiet, hysterical, silly, empathetic, whatever that person needs to make them feel their best. This is a great quality to have as a coach: it’s not always ideal for my own relationships.

I love celebrations. Christmas, Eater, other people’s birthdays, my own: I just get so excited and excitable. We’ve even been known to call my birthday a birthday “season” (I know…)

The Gin Fund Squad offer so much more than just swapping kid tat: I knew this was somewhere I could share my concerns and thoughts about parenting without judgement.