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The Health Mum
Join Carolina Oyekanmi, a family physician and mum that shares her medical and personal insights. Her passion for creating this podcast was fuelled by her own experiences of parenting. Providing actionable tips and inspiration for all things family health and lifestyle to help mums gain confidence and feel supported in the challenging yet hugely rewarding task that is navigating parenthood while maintaining some sense of self.
Grab a coffee, listen to it in the car, or during your morning walk or run. No matter where you are on your parenting journey, the joys and the challenges are real. Let's support each other, we are all trying our best and our best is good enough.
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This is just the beginning of our journey, together!
As we celebrate all the wonderful mothers in our lives, and wish you a day filled with happiness and togetherness with those you love, remember the give and take of life. Perhaps by giving our children less of what they ask for, we are actually giving them much more.
Stoicism as a way to parent can help many of us in the current pandemic by allowing us to see beyond the utopia of the perfect parenting and to be happy along with our children despite the daily challenges we face.
We consider happiness vs contentment in the context of being a parent and discuss some tips to cherish the joy of parenthood.
I have decided that it is time to put down my phone, turn off my computer and pay more attention to my children. Here's how I am trying (and sometimes failing) to do it.
Tell me how you do it, DM me to let me know
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We have all heard the saying “It takes a village to raise a child” but… where is that village? Modern family living means parents have to keep ALL the balls in the air with NO help. Let’s talk about how we can have help when we run into problems.
DISCLAIMER:The content in the podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice.
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to ALL of us. As mothers we can empower our children to continue this message of gender balance and equality.
https://www.internationalwomensday.com
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COVID has disrupted every aspect of our lives causing huge anxiety and overwhelm. Balancing priorities, juggling responsibilities... We discuss a useful tool, The Eisenhower Matrix, to help us, parents, regain some sense of control and set us up for a calmer and more joyful family life where we prioritise the important and not just the urgent.
Join Carolina Oyekanmi, a family physician and mum that shares her medical and personal insights. She provides actionable tips and inspiration for all things family health and lifestyle to help mums gain confidence and feel supported in the challenging yet hugely rewarding task that is navigating parenthood while maintaining some sense of self.
Let's support each other, we are all trying our best and our best is good enough.
http://instagram.com/the_health_mum