Ah, the guilt. Hello again.
For mums who are tired of shouting and tired of feeling terrible about it afterwards.
Psychologist-built support for the shouting, the guilt, and the overload driving all of it. From a self-paced toolkit to 1:1 therapy.
Does this sound familiar?
You already know what you're supposed to do.
The shoes. The whining. The fact that no one listened
even though you asked four times. Your voice rose
before you decided it was going to.
The advice isn't the problem.
Having something left to give at 6pm is.
This is where that changes.
Here's the thing.
Nobody writes parenting advice for 6pm.
They write it for the version of you who has slept, eaten something, and has twenty minutes to think. That version doesn't need the advice.
The 6pm version does. The one who's been running on empty since Tuesday and the shoes are still in the middle of the floor.
That's not a patience problem. That's overload.
And overload has actual solutions.
This is where that changes.
Maybe you shout. Maybe you go quiet and cold. Maybe you hold it together in the moment and carry the guilt around for the rest of the day.
However it shows up, the underneath part is usually the same. The exhaustion of running on empty. The feeling that you should be handling this better than you are.
That's what I work with. Ten years of clinical experience - and two small children who have tested every bit of it.
Perfection is not the goal. Steadiness is.
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Hey there.
I'm Dr Nicola Sutton.
I went from losing it most days to losing it once every few months. Not because I became a different person -- because I understood what was actually driving it and built the right tools for the right moments.
That's exactly what I help other mums do.
Read my storyNot done yet?
There's plenty more where that came from.
Follow along on Instagram for the tips, the real talk, and the occasional reminder that you're doing better than you think.
One last thing.
You've been trying to fix this for a while.
Reading the posts. Promising yourself not today. Still ending up in the same place. That's not a you problem. The advice doesn't fail because you failed - it fails because it was never built for the moment you're actually in.
This is.
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No perfection. Just something that actually works at 6pm.
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