Posts by Kelly Pietrangeli
10 Immunity Boosters for Busy Mothers
Do you push on through even when you’re exhausted? Find yourself watching binge watching NetFlix rather than hitting the hay? Know you ‘should’ be eating healthier, but end up grabbing whatever’s easiest? Your amazing body has built-in mechanisms for internal rebalancing, but guess what happens when you constantly override them by running around too much,…
Read MoreDo Your Friends Lift You Higher? How to Build Your Power Posse
Think about the friends you spend the most time with and how you feel directly after seeing them. Buzzing and elated, still smiling from something funny they’ve said? Inspired to try something they’ve recommended? Grateful they’ve been a good listener and helped you gain some perspective on a problem? Or were you the sounding board…
Read MoreThe Key to Finding a Better Balance
It’s easy to let the demands of life tip you in one direction, leaving other parts of your life sitting on the back burner. You don’t realise you’re neglecting your self care – even when you become overwhelmed and short fused. You don’t see that your partner needs attention, until you start drifting apart. Without…
Read MoreTurning Goals Into Reality
You know that feeling when you set a goal for yourself and you really want to achieve it… but somehow it never quite gets off the ground? You start beating yourself up and soon you just feel negative about the whole goals and resolutions thing. Why even bother if you’re going to fail anyway, right?…
Read MoreHow to Think Before Reacting To Your Kids
I was thrilled with the opportunity to write a guest blog for one of my favourite websites, Tiny Buddha, about my experience of learning to press my mental pause button and think before reacting. It was a difficult to write as Tiny Buddha have a diverse audience and the blogs they publish aren’t gender specific or…
Read MoreBecome The Master of Your Circus (And Tame Those Wild Animals)
Sick of the sound of your own nagging voice? Feel like a broken record on repeat? Do your kids only listen once you’ve reached screaming point? What’s a stressed out mother supposed to do? I used to drive myself crazy trying to get my kids to behave like human beings instead of wild animals. Now…
Read MoreCreating Goals That Rock!
Do you ever wonder why some of your goals never quite get off the ground? You’ve got good intentions – yet with everything else going on in your busy life, you lose the plot. Everyone needs something from you, your to-do list is a mile long and there are already not enough hours in the day…
Read More18 Busy Mamas Reveal Their Biggest Struggles
Ever feel like other mothers have got it together more than you? Wonder how they manage to make it all look so damn easy? I’ve got something special for you here. Proof that even those mothers we tend to put up on a pedestal aren’t perfect and have their struggles just like anybody else. I…
Read MoreThe Power of Designing Your Year
Are you tired of setting goals that don’t stick? Do you start off with great intentions but soon slide back into old habits or get completely side tracked by the busyness of life? Maybe you think you have goals… ‘I want to lose weight’, ‘I want to get organised’, ‘I want to start a business.’…
Read MoreBe a Lover Not a Fighter. How to Fight Fair.
My man and I are at gridlock. What’s it about this time? Teeth brushing. (He’s before breakfast, I’m after.) Each of us firmly believes we’re right (even though it’s obviously me). It’s not just the little things we argue over. Like all couples, we have our ‘button pushing’ topics – housework, money, sex, parenting…. We’re…
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