In this episode, I open up about what I’ll do differently the second time around in motherhood — not because I regret how I raised my daughter, but because I lost myself in the process and was deeply driven by my own internal wounds.

I was the poster mum for gentle, conscious, attachment-based parenting. No screens, no bottles, no breaks, no boundaries. I gave everything… and I mean everything. And while my daughter thrived, I unravelled.

This is an honest reflection on how my own abandonment wound shaped my parenting — and how “doing it all right” left me feeling hollow, exhausted, and alone.

I share the changes I’ll be making for when my next little one comes along — from planning postpartum support, setting emotional boundaries, and actually allowing myself to be human, to questioning the parts of conscious parenting that felt more like self-erasure than self-trust.

This one’s for the mums who have ever felt like they disappeared under the weight of doing it perfectly.

You’re allowed to change. You’re allowed to choose yourself.

Let’s talk about it.

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