Articles & Expert Guides on Mental Health

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242 Self-Care Quotes Every Woman Needs to Hear

Tassia O'Callaghan

An anti-resolution for moms: letting go of what’s heavy this January

Phoebe Corcoran

Feeling Lighter in Early Motherhood: Therapist-Approved Ways to Ease the Emotional Load

Phoebe Corcoran

Overwhelmed New Mom? 6 Tips to Find Calm & Rediscover Yourself

Tassia O'Callaghan

How to Date Yourself and Why It Matters

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

45 Powerful Loneliness Quotes to Help You Feel Less Alone

Tassia Agatowski

Lonely in Motherhood? Tips for Finding Connection as a Mom

Deborah Vieyra

How to Deal With Loneliness Throughout Womanhood

Tassia Agatowski

62 Self-Care Ideas for Mums to Calm Your Mind

Tassia O'Callaghan

Depression During Pregnancy: You’re Not Alone

Tassia Agatowski

48 “Miss You” Mother’s Day in Heaven Quotes to Bring You Comfort

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Support Groups for Women: Take Back Your Power

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

71 Proud Single Mother Quotes for Sons, Daughters & You

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Coping with Empty Nest Syndrome: All You Need to Know

Deborah Vieyra

International Women’s Day 2026: All You Need to Know

Tassia O'Callaghan

200+ Inspiring International Women’s Day Quotes

Tassia O'Callaghan

12 Inspiring Black Women You Should Follow on Instagram

Team Peanut

Your 2024 Guide to Mental Health During Pregnancy & As A New Mum

Tassia Agatowski

How to Recover from Mum Burnout: My Story

Kristi Yeh

10 Wine-Free Self-Care Tips for Mums

Irina Gonzalez

From the community

Resigned my tenured career

Mixed in emotions. Worked up the corporate ladder and made a career for myself. Just resigned after 10 years in the field. In exchange more time at home and flexibility. Anyone felt the identity crisis?

Losing hope

How do I gain more hope on finding someone. I got divorced about 2 years ago due to couldnt put up with alcohol abuse from him. thought found someone whom just left me pregnant with our daughter whom I find most precious along my other daughter. The one thing I want more in life is to be wife to someone. Anyone else has this feeling?

How do I begin to start making friends again?

It’s so so crazy how my social life has flipped from when I announced I was pregnant. I am the only one that has a baby so far in the small circle I had. No one checks in, even when I try myself. I feel like my “friends” are just sick and tired of hearing about my son. My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. He is the absolute centre of my world and I don’t get up to anything anymore other than being a mum because everyone has just checked out and moved on. How the heck do I start anew? I have to really really hype myself up to even post this 🤣
Advice is more than welcome I need help lols💜

Dying to go back work

Am I the only one dying for the human interaction so bad? I love mat leave with my daughter & trust me I know the years go by ( have my first starting school). But I so badly miss work & my co workers . I miss being their support too! They’ve had it so rough since I’ve been off ( retail & we’ve been understaffed hugely ) . I’m due back November but have training days in between . Is it bad im desperate to book them in? I don’t have mum friends ( haven’t found the time to do anything with anyone & adjusting to two children has been hard) . But I socialise with my co workers outside of work & they make it so much easier for me to socialise I’ve found . Advice?

Lonely

I always told myself i’d have the perfect pregnancy , perfect “family life”. but it feels like my partner has gotten so distant and i’m in this alone . i don’t know what to do what to say so i just lay in bed crying now.

Alone

I don’t even know what I want out of posting this. But I’m so alone. I’m so tired. I’m so burnt out… I’m a single mother of a medically complex kid. I have no friends. I have no family. My daughter’s family has nothing to do with her. I get no breaks. I get no time to myself. I work from home and raise my daughter while I’m working. I can’t afford a baby sitter so I have to balance both at the same time. I never get to get out of my house unless it’s the grocery store or errands. I have no social life it’s just this. My daughter is 6 now and I didn’t even think I could get pregnant when I found out I was pregnant with her… and then she came out when I was only 5 months pregnant. It’s been an emotional roller coaster ever since.

I literally have 0 support system. I don’t have the energy to make friends. I don’t have the safety to make friends because I don’t want strangers around my child and I’m never away from my child. I don’t have time to make friends….

It’s just my child, my job, my chores and errands.

I’m so tired. I’m so burnt out. I’m so depressed.

Am I the only one?

Whenever I have to speak to my baby daddy in relation to co parenting our son, I feel thrown off and then my whole day feels ruined. We completely ended ties like a month ago and we've been keep our distance but I'm only now beginning to heal and process everything. But I hate that I have to still speak to him, I wish I could have at least 2 weeks without communication so I can actually heal and properly move on. Am I the only one that feels this way?

Does anyone feel back to normal yet?

I had my twins 14 months ago and I still feel like I don’t recognise myself - both physically and mentally. I am so much more anxious than my previous self and I just feel like a completely different person. Is it just me?

Haven't been on holiday

Im feeling really guilty that we haven't gone on a holiday with our little girl. Im a teacher so it would have been amazing to go away during term time but she started army crawling at 5 and a half months, she hates the pram, hates the car, isn't a good sleeper and can whinge/cry quite a lot if im not holding her, so the thought of going away just seemed/still seems so stressful. However, seeing other people go away with their little one makes me feel like ive missed out on making special memories. I think its because there is so much pressure to do every activty, club, adventure etc on maternity leave.

Anyone else feel the same?

Friends while being a mom

I feel like I lost so many friends since I became a mom. Just because I’m a mom doesn’t mean I don’t want to do the fun things and go out. I can’t even tell you the last time I went out and got to just enjoy being baby free for a few hours that didn’t involve grocery shopping.