Mamahood Archives - Linds Irwin

Savouring Summer Break

I’m re-living that 90’s Summer Vibe. Working for myself this summer has me coasting through the sunny season balancing my business priorities with my 5-year old daughter who’s home with me for her summer break. Every day is a fine dance of staggered work hours mixed with swimming, ‘playdoughing’, Barbie world creations, walks up the…

The First Monday of Self Employment

The first Monday morning of self employment. I will never forget the moment I woke up on that first Monday morning of self-employment. Opening my eyes, and being equal parts disoriented from the change in my grind routine and elated from that rosy feeling of utter freedom. In a fraction of a second I took…

Goldfish Dust

Recognize these little guys? Come on, you know the stuff – the neon orange powder all over the house. The direct result of Goldfish crackers that have been stomped on, driven over with toys, crushed beneath your couch cushions, and staining those little sticky fingers (and your white duvets). On one particular morning that I…

A Love Letter to my Anxiety

Dear Anxiety, Thank you for your brief visit today, while I was grocery shopping, standing in a long checkout line and I didn’t expect you. I’m still a little puzzled as to what triggered you, but I expect it was well deserved, or overdue and out of nowhere, or maybe you arrived because I needed…

Mamahood | Mindset

Want to “feel the shiver of something new”?

Yes – you guessed it. That’s the highly memorable line from the Disney movie ‘Encanto’. Remember the sing-song part when Isabella’s flower magic conjures a super rad, prickly, colourful cactus instead of another boring, old, predictable pink rose? That’s the ‘shiver’ moment. Have you felt it? Are you feeling it now? The moment you realize…

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Savouring Summer Break

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Goldfish Dust

A Love Letter to my Anxiety

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