As I click the ‘Book now’ button on the Maverick Mum’s ‘Rewild yourself’ half-day retreat, I can’t help but feel a thrill of exhilaration course through me tip to toe.

And the thing is, it is not only the anticipation of quality time with a dear friend or, the restoring company of other women with similar interests that is thrilling me.

It’s not even the anticipation of connecting once again with myself through the beauty of nature, the opportunity to refresh my soul with forest bathing, envigorate it with wild swimming and then warm its cockles with a woodland sauna and Cacao around a campfire.

No.

Whilst all of that anticipation is delicious and making my body tingle with inner delight at the treat I have in store, there is another glow building within me that fills me with an even deeper sense of satisfaction.

It is the realisation that in clicking that button, I am affirming a new pattern of interaction with myself that has taken literally years to formulate. In clicking that button, I am shedding the guilt I used to feel in asking for time for myself. I am disowning the bitterness I used to carry within myself as I strived to meet my son’s needs whilst completely disconnecting from my own.

In that button click I am challenging that internal script that used to whisper in my head, “You can’t do that! You’re a mum now! You have responsibilities and that kind of fun is not allowed!”

In clicking that button, I am shedding the guilt I used to feel in asking for time for myself.

Today is a good day. Today is a triumph. But the journey out of ‘Mum Guilt’ can sometimes be a bumpy road for me, even after several years of practice. Some days I coast along the highway in a shiny convertible, my hair blowing in the breeze as I sing along to “I’m every woman!” (*insert own preferred power ballad!) and I am completely ok in the knowledge that as an individual I have needs and I am entitled to seek ways to meet them. It sounds so simple doesn’t it?! But other days the road is a potholed country lane and I am on a unicycle with a wobbly wheel feeling completely uncertain about what my needs even are in that moment, let alone feeling confident enough to ‘demand’ time to meet them.

And that is the beauty of Maverick Mums.

It is not just about the actual gifts of time, activity and connection that Maverick Mums offers us as women and mothers; it is also the magic it has created in the supportive community it has built up to help us stay on track with our personal journey into genuine self-care. Because self-care is not selfishness. By caring for yourself you have more to give others, but, even more importantly – you get to live an authentic life, be true to your self and role-model that existence for your kids in the most powerful way…by example. Because kids do what we do, not what we say.

Because self-care is not selfishness!

As I sit there, staring at the screen with its confirmation message blinking that I am all booked in, I can literally feel myself tapping into the collective feminine and maternal wisdom that Maverick Mums embodies – the calming, soothing message that says, “You have found your place, you have found your people, and we want you to feel safe yet stretched, relaxed yet envigorated; you are a woman, you can have it all.”

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