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✌️It takes a village to raise a woman. ✌️ And I’ve found a village in these little squares that has spilled into real life and helped me to rebuild my identity after kids and stay sane. 👭👭👭👭👭👭👭👭 Social media isn’t a substitute for the real thing, but it can be a connector, an umbilical chord to the outside world when you’re drowning in baby fog and Sudocrem and a place to at least start when you find yourself living thousands of miles from your family and old pals. 🌍 To my Swissters and TedX gals - @h_mcinnis @hayleyensuisse @lunaguidetotravel 🇨🇭 💡 To my @shesportsswitzerland Switzerland bundles of energy @leyjenkins @sarahveebee @rachelspry 🤾🏼‍♀️🤸‍♀️🏄🏽‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️🤽🏾‍♀️🧗🏼‍♀️ To those who have inspired and told me to just bloody well get on with it @womens_work_lab @mother_pukka @smilenesta @mama.of.daughters @mamafuel.me @girlsonhillsuk 👩‍🎤 And to those who have been there in the darkest of hours @poetic_endings @anna_eol_doula #iminyourvillage #visforvillage @mumologist (great initiative ✌️👊)
With the exception of some extraordinary bedtime antics from the toddler and a teething baby, today has been an excellent reminder that THESE are the days of our lives. Don’t wait.
💥ONE FOR YOUR COMMUTE / BEDTIME / BACKDROP TO THE WITCHING HOURS💥One of my New Year’s resolutions was to listen to more podcasts. So I am delighted to say that two months in I have popped my podcast cherry and actually BEEN ON ONE! 🍒 🎙 I chatted with the force for good that is @mamafuel.me about life, motherhood, losing my mum, fear, comfort zones, adventures, failure, living abroad and being a human being. If any of that floats your boat then skip on over to @mamafuel.me and click on the PODCAST link in her bio (and give her a cheeky follow while you’re there because she is good news and has some fab women lined up for future podcasts) 📢👭🌍 Love from me and my sofa (where I am curled up with food poisoning exacerbated by the smell of kids’ tea but lessened by an inkling of pride that I actually did the above ⬆️ 🤢 🛋 🍋💛👊)
In the future, women won’t need unicorns. They won’t need to pull off daily miracles because the world will support them in life, in work and as 💯 equal human beings. 🦸🏽‍♀️ 🦄 In the meantime, I’ll be working with @shesportsswitzerland to raise women in the world of sport until the playing field is equal. 🤽🏾‍♀️🤸‍♀️🏂🧘‍♀️⛷🏄‍♀️ And I’ll continue to bang the @tedxlausannewomen drum until more women have a voice and their ideas a platform. 🎙 💡 And most of all I will be focusing on my full time job of raising the future generation of women in my two girls. My most demanding clients and our best shot at creating a better future. 👭 #internationalwomensday #iwd2019 #kidsarethefuture #shesportsstronger #shesportswithus #showingup #balanceforbetter
Children are great teachers. Annoying too. But yesterday was the fattest reminder of what can be achieved in a single hour. Of children’s ability to ignore the fear of failure and to just get on with it. The toddler learnt to ski. She went from not being able to slide one ski forward on the flat to coming down the nursery slope in a snow plough with no one holding onto her. And absolutely loving it. As she told me on the way home “I am very impressed with myself mummy”. I have never felt more proud of this mini human. For her skiing, yes, but also for the life lesson (which you can see her Granda and little sis taking in, in this shot). Proof in stories. Watch and learn adult humans. #thisgirlcan
I was caught between two worlds today. To my left blue and sunny and to my right this moody scene over the mountains. It’s that happy / sad place again. Life is going on, the future feels exciting and for living but there’s always this rumble in the background, a darkness, reminding you that something momentous has changed and that nothing will ever be the same again. It’s also moments like these and vistas like these that make you feel so alive. And mum would have loved them. #msaawarenessmonth
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