HELLO, I’M SILKE
I help women adjust to motherhood, through resilience and self compassion tools.
Raise up Mums was created after not being able to find realistic wellbeing resources for mums who don't have extra hours in the day to look after themselves (so that's all of us, yes?).
YOU ARE SO WELCOME HERE
I AM SO GLAD YOU FOUND US
Here and in the Raise Up Mums Community you'll find oodles of tools for:
Simple, doable and effective self care
Treating yourself with kindness and compassion
Feeling resilient, calm and capable in the chaos of it all
All based on the understanding that time is precious but that YOU MATTER and that you deserve to take care of yourself. Even, and especially, as a mother when it seems all you do is give, give and give some more. When life is relentless and sleep and alone time are as rare as unicorn tears.
Join my FREE Raise Up Mums Community on Facebook for daily resilience hacks, self care inspiration and an endless supply of “thank eff it’s not just me” moments of solidarity.
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MUMS
Raise Up Mums Resilience Cards
How to thrive rather than just survive in motherhood
- at your fingertips!
A deck of 50 cards, providing a broad toolkit of physical self care and mindset tools, that will see you through the most frazzled and sleep deprived days (or months….) of parenting. All actionable within your mothering day, without the need to add any extras to your to do list. Because let’s face it, that’s already long enough. The front of each card shows a short prompt, and the back some more detailed information or instructions. All easy to read, peppered with humour and geared towards making you feel a little more cared for and valued every single day. Pick a card daily, or whenever you need a little boost.
An essential purchase for yourself if you're looking for ways of looking after yourself a little better, and a super thoughtful gift for a new mum (be that first time or more…).
THE MOTHER-LOVING GUIDE BOOK
The Honest Heads Up that every parent deserves!
Instead of birth preparation and infant care, this down-to-earth, no-nonsense guide focuses almost exclusively on you – the mother, the woman, the person – and offers plenty of truth, tools to prepare yourself for the realities of life with a newborn and some humour along the way to give you the heads-up that every first-time parent deserves.
What would you tell your first time pregnant self if you had the chance?
Get involved with ‘Letters to your pregnant self’ !
Give yourself half an hour, some tissues, and pen a letter to your pregnant self. Give a heads up, a hug, encouragement, wisdom and straight talking to yourself in that pregnancy bubble way back when. What would you say to yourself? What might have helped prepare or steady you?
If you can bring yourself to share it with me, I would love to include it in a collection of letters that will sit on this website and will be linked to from the book I'm currently writing, with the collective aim of finding connection, belonging and inclusion in motherhood. Normalising the hard stuff and really, really feeling like we are definitely all in it together. Think 'Post Secret' for motherhood.
Before we move on to practicalities, let’s nip this old chestnut in the bud: Asking for help is a sign of weakness. We’ve already established that bringing up kids is really not meant to happen in isolation. You’re not weak for not wanting to/not being able to soldier through sleep deprivation and postnatal healing. Asking for support is going to enable you to enjoy motherhood and maybe even some slices of your ‘old life’ here and there. You’re setting yourself up for long-term success and well-being by asking for, and accepting, help. So let’s get to it!