As great parents who love nurturing their children, it is not surprising you feel guilty at the slightest misdemeanour when things don’t go to plan.

A lot of guilt-fuelled regrets occur after a moment of high-tension, conflicting moments – especially when you’re over-tired and over-worked!

The best way to break this frustrating, inevitable cycle, and prevent you from feeling guilty about the way you react to your child’s demands or tantrums, is to take some essential time out.

Unfortunately this too can lead to more guilt! Leaving your children to go and enjoy yourself can result in you fee...

Positive thinking is such a powerful attitude, it can help you to fulfil your dreams. It will empower you to be the very best you can be.

For those mums who feel frustrated, confused or unfulfilled with life, positive thinking can be a difficult concept to grasp. How can a method of thought possibly have an effect on your life?

The way you currently feel is a direct result of your negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. If you cannot see a way out of your current situation, your limiting beliefs are prolonging your despair. Negative thoughts are contagious – one leads to another – leaving yo...

Tracey Wall is now an accredited Advanced Confidence Coach and practitioner of the accredited “Confidence for Life” programme by Dawn Breslin – internationally acclaimed life coach, best-selling author and broadcaster. As an experienced professional life coach, NLP practitioner and director of Empowering Mums, Tracey can now offer this powerful and life-changing programme to her clients.

During the programme, Tracey will coach you to release the pains of your past, your negative thoughts and limiting beliefs, and support you to overcome your fears and worries. Through effective exercises, t...

Trying to achieve life-long ambitions can be a long, challenging and very rewarding occupation. However, many of us often sabotage our own success by fostering limiting beliefs and negative thoughts that diminish confidence and lessen self-esteem.

Success can only be achieved by adopting a positive attitude. Believing you can succeed will empower you to give your very best to accomplishing your goals. Always remember, whether you think you can or can’t, you are right.

Set yourself some personal goals: things you really want to achieve. Write them down and keep them to hand at all times to pr...

Negative thoughts will limit the way you live your life. Limiting beliefs prevent you from fulfilling your true aspirations and can destroy your confidence, self-esteem and ultimately your future.

If you are desperate to take control of your life’s direction, but have doubts and excuses that prevent the necessary changes from taking place, you will be harbouring damaging negative thoughts and limiting beliefs.

Do these statements sound familiar?

• I won’t get the job so I shan’t waste time in applying.
• I was hopeless at maths in school so how can I possibly help my daughter with her homewo
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‘Accept Yourself’ is the latest e-book to be produced by Empowering Mums. Packed full with effective exercises and enlightening advice, this e-book will build your self-esteem, increase your self-confidence and help you build a positive outlook on life. It will give you the power to truly accept everything about yourself and enable you to live the life you really want and deserve.

By completing the exercises, you will learn how to release self-critical, harsh thoughts that prevent you from living the life you really want to live and enjoying true happiness.

The results of these exercises wil...

Have you ever observed your single, child-less friends? From a brief glance, you’ll notice they splurge happily on the latest trends; they can often be found working out at the gym or stretching at a weekly Pilates class; and they have time to relax over a glass of Chablis with colleagues. Delve deeper and you’ll find painfully high stilettos, a fabulous little black dress and matching lacy underwear all ready for that just-in-case, last minute night out with the girls.

Contrast this with your life. As a busy mum, you’re no doubt wearing Marks & Spencer’s safest white knickers under your unif...

Springtime is finally here and, like most mums, you’re keen to get your annual spring clean underway. And, like most mums, you’re probably finding this a difficult task when the children are constantly vying for your attention or pulling out all the toys you’ve just put away! Your list of spring-cleaning tasks might look like this:

• De-clutter the kitchen drawers and cupboards
• Sort out the toys in the playroom
• Clear the garden so the children can enjoy the nice weather
• Put out-grown clothes away or give them to charity

But, have you thought about spring-cleaning your relationship? Look...

Dealing with negative people is always an arduous task. Being around someone who is extremely negative can be physically and emotionally draining, no matter how positive you try to be. When exhaustion sets in, it is easy to allow their pessimistic and depressing mood to take hold of you too – but there are ways to avoid falling into this trap!

Offer Love and Assurance
Negative people often feel angry, confused, frustrated or even fearful. They believe they have been let down in some way and can only see things in a bad light. Additionally, they develop low self-esteem and self-confidence, res...

Tracey Wall,, finds helping others is the perfect way to live a wonderful life. Tracey lives in Cheshire with her husband and five year old daughter.

During a holiday on the west coast of Wales, I realised my life was not the perfect picture I envisaged it would. From the outside, everything seemed wonderful. I had a caring husband and a beautiful daughter who both loved me very much. Not only that, but I had a highly successful career working in management in the finance sector. With the support of my family and friends close by, life really couldn’t get much better.

But it didn’t. It got a...