Life as a single mum can be challenging and exhausting, especially around this time of year when all the shops are filled with heart-shaped balloons! Here are some top tips to help you improve your confidence and take control of your life and its direction.

1. Congratulate yourself for doing an amazing job under difficult circumstances. Children bring us endless pleasure but bringing them up alone can often be demanding and overwhelming. Acknowledging everything you do to ensure your child is happy and content should make you feel proud.

2. Ensure you are happy about your self-image. This...

Finding time to spend quality time with your partner is an essential part of any relationship. Understanding each other’s needs and sharing time alone together will strengthen your relationship. Empowering Mums offers you some great ways to find time to spend with your partner and offers tips to keep vital lines of communication open.

Make Time For Each Other

Life as a busy or working mum is very hectic. Between general chores, raising the children, running the household, looking after extended family members such as elderly parents and seeing friends, your partner can quite often be...

It is often the case that mums feel like life is one long treadmill of chores, work and planning. We forget to enjoy many aspects of life such as finding time to spend with the family and taking much-needed time-out from the grindstone!

It is also true that mums don’t give themselves enough credit for the good work they do and the success they achieve in life. So here are a few typical events in life that call for the occasional ‘Time Out Treat’ (in no particular order):

• Getting the housework done on the day you planned to do it. TREAT: a cup of tea and your favourite...

1. Commit to your goal
Choose what you really want to achieve and believe that you can accomplish it.

2. Be realistic
The key is continued motivation. If you set the bar too high, you risk failing.

3. Write it down
A simple yet powerful technique that generates commitment and drive. Write your goal on a piece of paper and stick it where you’ll see it daily.

4. Make an action plan
Decide how to achieve your goal. Write down all the steps you aim to complete in order to conquer your ambition.

5. Be flexible
Not everything will go to plan. Don’t be too rigid else the first minor...

As Big Ben chimes in the New Year, many of us will be making resolutions in the hope they will change our lives for the better. So how can we make certain that such aspirations will be achievable and enable us to live life according to our own set of needs, desires and values?

Effective goal setting is the key. The first and often hardest step is to identify realistic goals that you believe will change your life for the better. A tip here is to consider all the life-long aspirations you have held but never pursued due to lack of time, self-confidence or both.

How realistic are your...

Empowering Mums is proud to announce the launch of its new, fresh and dynamic website, developed with you – our fantastic mums – in mind!

Our new-look website contains a lot of the information found on our previous site but now contains so much more to support you on your journey towards achieving confidence, balance and joy, including:

• More Personal Coaching Options: Empowering Mums now offers a range of new coaching programmes including 1-2-1 and online coaching. We provide tailored coaching programmes to suit the many requirements, preferences and budgets of today’s...

Empowering Mums would like to take this opportunity to thank all Empower subscribers who have supported us and enjoyed reading our free quarterly newsletter over the last twelve months.

We are now pleased to announce that we have listened to the requests of our many subscribers and, due to popular demand, Empower will now be issued to subscribers on a monthly basis and will remain a free online publication!

Empower will now feature a welcome note from Tracey Wall, founder and director of Empowering Mums and Empowering Mumpreneurs, a themed article, news about the latest events happening in...

As the year draws to a close, many mums will be finding that their schedule is becoming more and more hectic. Does your ‘to-do’ list look a little something like this?

• Make the Christmas cake
• Order the turkey
• Find an angel outfit for Alice’s nativity
• Find a suitable teacher’s gift for less than £5
• Dissuade the kids from spending too much on their friends’ Christmas presents
• Find a suitable Secret Santa present for the boss…
• Review savings for Christmas presents
• Write Christmas cards
• Ask Aunty Nell what colour slippers she would like this year
• Buy...

I would like to say a big thank you to all those ladies, and the odd gentlemen who felt a little left out, who came to visit Empowering Mums at the Cheshire Mind, Body and Spirit Fair at the Northwich Memorial Hall.

It was lovely to meet and chat with everyone who came along to see and support Empowering Mums at this twice-annual event. Many signed up to our free newsletter Empower, which is packed full with topics and articles relevant to mums, suggestions about how to cope with life’s many challenges, hot topics, personal development tips and special offers.

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Are you one of the millions of 21st Century mums on the quest to become a Supermum? Are you so desperate to achieve this astounding status that you have absolutely no time to fulfil your own pleasures in life?

Let’s consider the concept of the ‘Supermum’. The title does sound very grand, aspirational and positive, doesn’t it? However, not only is the vision of lycra-clad, cape-wearing mums standing by a school gate hilarious and yet some how horrifying, the concept of such social standing is even more ridiculous.

The term Supermum generally brings with it...