The Therapy Edit

In this guest episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats to Saira Khan about how she believes taking a holistic approach to skincare will make you feel wonderful.

Saira Khan is a familiar face on our televisions having been a runner up on The Apprentice in 2005 and going on to star in many shows that we all know and love.

More recently Saira has founded her own brand of skincare, SairaSkin that you can discover on her website.

SairaSkin was born from a genuine desire to help individuals embrace their uniqueness, celebrating the skin they’re in. This means accepting scars, uneven skin tones, stretch
marks, fine lines, and wrinkles.

You can also follow Saira on Instagram here

In this solo episode of the The Therapy Edit Anna considers how common, yet surprising it is for mothers to feel episodes of anger and rage, recalling some words she wrote in response to a character from the Netflix series Ozark talking about fierce motherhood.

And of course she offers us 5 therapeutic suggestions and ways to minimise the chances of feeling these emotions and channeling them more positively when they do occur.

Anna names some further resources to support you to manage your feelings of anger and range.
You'll find the People Pleasing course here
You can buy Anna's second book, Know Your Worth here

In this Friday episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats to Daisy Upton, aka Five Minute Mum about her One Thing which is that 5 minutes really is enough!

Daisy is a mum of two and an ex primary school teaching assistant. She's come up with easy games and activities for little kids aged 1 and up, that take five minutes to set up (which means they also take five minute to clear away again - hurrah)!

Daisy's little and often approach is demonstrated on her amazing Instagram account which you'll find here.

Daisy's brand new book will be published with Ladybird in June- Starting School: is a gentle, funny guide aimed at children all around taking the big step to big school. You can pre-order it here.

Daisy has also written:

Five Minute Mum: Give Me Five: Five minute, easy, fun games for busy people to do with little kids

Five Minute Mum: Time For School: Easy, fun five-minute games to support Reception and Key Stage 1 children through their first years at school

Five Minute Mum: On the Go: From long journeys to family gatherings, easy, fun five-minute games to entertain children whenever you're out and about

In this solo episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna offers a few therapeutic coping techniques for managing health anxiety.

If you find Anna's grounding and calming words on this topic helpful, you may find her one hour video workshop on the topic helpful and you'll find it here.

Anna also recommends her first book, Mind Over Mother, which offers lots of explanation and background on anxiety and why many of us experience it in motherhood. You can get your copy of the book here.

In this Friday guest episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna welcomes guest Gemma Bird who shares her one thing which is a reassuring piece of advice for those in the early years of parenthood worried about the spiralling costs in the early days.

Gemma is a mum of two, speaker, author and regular television contributor who specialises in offering advice for mothers on managing a budget and money saving hacks.

Gemma Bird’s practical and savvy money-saving tips have made her a social media sensation with over 330k followers on Instagram. Gemma isalso a regular on ITV's Lorraine as one of the show's expert 'Saver Squad'.

From entertaining the kids, useful money-saving apps and the best deals and freebies, hard-working Mum Gemma shares the ‘need to knows’ to push through economically challenging times.
The key to Gemma’s success comes from her own motivation, a working Mum who frequently held down multiple jobs to make ends meet; she is actively instigating change, dropping the perceived shame and secrecy around being strapped for cash, in debt or economising. She says, “There
is a pride & empowerment that comes with being in control of your money”.

You can follow Gemma on Instagram as @moneymumofficial

You can buy Gemma's most recent book, The Money Journal here

You can buy Gemma's first book Money Mum Official: Save Yourself Happy: Your Ultimate Money Tips Guide here.

In this solo episode, Anna shares her tried and tested top tips for taking the stress out of small talk.

As a social anxiety sufferer, Anna has direct experience of the physical and mental symptoms that mingling can cause but in this episode she also ponders the impact of our reliance on surface level conversations has on our ability to dig for deeper connection, even though we crave it and we need it.

Remember you can take advantage of more of Anna's therapeutic advice on social anxiety in her £20 sofa session here.

In this guest episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna chats to journalist, podcaster and author Lorraine Candy about the one thing that she'd share with all the mums.

Lorraine draws on her decades of parenting four children and lets fellow parents know that they should learn to be comfortable with their children not always feeling happy.

You can follow Lorraine on Instagram here

You can pre-order/order Lorraine's brand new book: 'What's Wrong With Me? 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know' here

You can listen to Lorraine's podcast here

In today's solo episode of The Therapy Edit, Anna shares with listeners her recent journey to cut right back on alcohol and the surprising effect it's had on her sense of calm and her nervous system.

This week, Anna is joined by editor, author, book doula and creator of the term 'sober curious', Ruby Warrington.

In this episode of The Therapy Edit, they discuss Ruby's One Thing: how society must turn the tables on their approach towards women without kids.

Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a new vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby asks, what if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?

We hope you find Rubys words insightful.

You can find Ruby on Instagram here

Order Ruby's book 'Women Without Kids' here.

Order Ruby's book 'Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol' here.

Do you sometimes just feel the need to be held? To be mothered? To be supported?

For a myriad of reasons that’s not always practical or possible so in this solo episode of The Therapy Edit Anna offers out some ideas about how you can find that kind of support when you really need it.
We hope it helps some of you to feel better today.

This episode refers to the #MumRibbonMovement which Anna has set up as a symbol between mothers that you are open to receiving or giving help.

Read this article about the movement to find out more.