Mind Over Mother: Every mum's guide to worry and anxiety in the first years

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that kind of thing) and so fails to account for the far more complex difficult issues low-income and/or single mothers, for example, might face. A comforting ear on my shoulder -if that makes sense as I realise it was me listening to her; but it really felt we were having a shared conversation.

Anna gives so many helpful and manageable tips and it’s like having a really lovely friend hold and your hand and tell you everything is going to be ok:) highly recommend! Anna has an honest, reassuring and relatable way of speaking that comes through the pages and makes you instantly feel like there's a friend sat with you, giving you a big hug. It provided some reassurance and practical tips (breathing exercises, for instance) but I'm not sure it will have a lasting impact on me.We may have patches of time where we linger more towards one end than the other or bob around the centre. Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. I could understand the first chapter being a run down of anxiety but I picked this up expecting a bit more and I don’t have the time to keep reading to see if it gets deeper.

Yes it starts with the obvious and if you flick through it you might not see its worth but if you invest the time to read the book from start to finish and think about the prompts at the end of each chapter, if you do the work to try the techniques she teaches then this book can be an immense help for too. With conversations on Maternal Mental Health on the rise, and more women speaking up about the way they feel, Anna Mathur’s insight as a psychotherapist AND mother make her someone you feel you can trust.I also hadn't realised that I had suffered with mild PTSD after the birth of my eldest daughter - it was like a lightbulb moment making sense of that time. As mothers, we tend to quickly demote all the things that might help us feel more relaxed and grounded.