Life is FULL and if you’re a mother, it can also feel extremely overwhelming and exhausting, with no time left for you. What you’re feeling is now commonly known as postnatal depletion: ‘a common phenomenon of fatigue and exhaustion combined with a feeling of ‘baby brain’. There’s often a feeling of isolation, vulnerability and of not feeling ‘good enough’, according to Dr. Oscar Serrallach, a family physician in Queensland, Australia.

Reading an interview with Dr Oscar Serrallach I thought he had snuck into our home and spent a day in my life! I found myself nodding most of my way through his article. I reckon it affects more than 50% of us though – and it can affect us way longer than the kids are 10 years of age – just in a different guise, (as I explain further along).

As a mother, for the first time;

• My immune system was way less than average.  A small amount of exercise was enough to compromise my immune system. I couldn’t understand why?
• While I lost my baby weight quickly, after a few years I began to hold onto weight around my tummy and on my thighs!  I feared that this was the beginning of my ‘inevitable’ and gradual weight gain into middle age and beyond.
• I would wake up in the morning less than fresh and could happily roll over and go back to sleep after having a full night sleep – and still be tired at the end of the day (and irritable with the kids).
• My skin was very dry, just like my parents & my grandfather and something I’d concluded was my genetic destiny.
• I was borderline hypothyroid. A condition where the thyroid gland is underactive, affecting every cell in our body. Little wonder I was moody and lacked the energy for enjoying my kids, hubby and life in general.
• Ignited by feelings of overwhelm and the routine demands of family life, I’d lost my sense of purpose, my identity, my confidence.

In addition to this, my mothers intuition told me my babies weren’t as fully nourished as they could’ve been and nor was I. During this time my health struggled and so did my family. I now know that there is so much I could have done to radically improve my heath and my joy of motherhood.

I’ve noticed a similar pattern in my clients. Healthy, active, educated women that when they became mothers find themselves suffering from lack of energy, sleep issues, weight concerns and then, autoimmune disease, irritable bowel, depression, adrenal fatigue and most commonly – thyroid ‘conditions’.   Is this how you feel too?  It’s okay, but…

YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GET THIS INFORMATION OR THE SUPPORT YOU NEED FROM YOUR AVERAGE GP or Health Practitioner. You need an expert you can trust to ensure you create an enriched life – physically, spiritually and emotionally. A life that with ease enables you to reclaim your sense of self again and to BE the role model you so deeply desire to be, for your children too.