Looking for mums who'd like to chat about motherhood for book research

[AnyaJoeli]

Hi there

I'm writing a book about modern motherhood which will come out next Autumn. It's an emotional and mental wellbeing book, I'm writing it with a psychologist, offering a toolkit of therapies and strategies for dealing with various potholes we come across in the motherhood journey - looking at anxiety, anger, other emotional issues which we might not struggle with until we become mothers. How we judge ourselves harshly and berate our achievements from birth onwards, and how this affects our mental health and resilience. How your birth experience can frame the early months and even years. How hormones/sleep deprivation affect your behaviour and relationships. How we set ourselves very high standards and are so quick to call ourselves a "failure"or a "bad parent" "I never thought I'd be the kind of mother who?". The work/mothering balance?ahh that's a biggie.

The book will tackle big subjects with humour and empathy.

I'd love to chat to as wide a range of mums as possible - i.e. not just those in the early days throes of newborn sleep deprivation or the toddler tunnel, but also mums of teenagers and beyond.

Would also love to chat to some dads too!

I would also be very interested to talk to any adoptive parents, or people who have struggled to conceive.

My time (as all of our time) is limited for meeting effectively around childcare etc but I'd love to chat face to face if at all possible, and if not I have a questionnaire that I can send out, and we can have follow up chats on email/skype/phone.

if you're interested in learning more, please PM me or email me, or message here of course!

anyajoeli@yahoo.co.uk