You can love your kids and still hate what modern motherhood asks of you.
Which is why you need honest conversations and practical support for the invisible labour, financial squeeze, relationship struggles, overwhelm and loss of self that modern motherhood can bring.
Which of the 5 motherhood villages do you need the most?
So many mums find themselves in debt - and not just with money.
Motherhood can cost us sleep, time, income, identity, ease and connection. I call these hidden costs
The Motherhood Debt: the unpaid, unseen, emotional, financial and energetic costs women absorb when raising a family.
Becoming a mum isn’t the problem. The problem is doing it in a world that still expects women to carry so much of motherhood alone.
My work puts words to those costs, makes sense of why they exist and explores what it takes to create a version of motherhood that feels supportive, joyful and sustainable for women too.
The Mama Circle Podcast:
Why motherhood feels like this
Have you ever heard another mum describe something and thought, Oh thank God, it isn’t just me?
The Mama Circle Podcast puts words to the parts of motherhood that can feel hard to explain: the money, relationships, rage, identity shifts, mental load and all the other things that make motherhood feel like… this.
Mum, writer and host of The Mama Circle, an independent podcast about the realities of modern motherhood.
My work explores the hidden costs motherhood places on women, from money and work to relationships, identity and emotional wellbeing. Through The Motherhood Debt and Five Villages frameworks, I help mums understand the experiences they live through but struggle to explain.
Around here, you’ll find honesty without judgement, honest chats without the jargon and practical ways to build a motherhood that has space for the woman inside the mum too.
Hey Lovely, I’m Nat,
Mums don’t need one village. We need five.
Motherhood was never meant to be done alone. But in modern life, support rarely comes from one person or place.
The Five Villages framework helps you recognise the different kinds of support holding you up, understand where you may need more and find practical ways to build a village that fits the life you actually have.
Take the free quiz to see how supported each of your five villages feels right now and discover the podcast playlist created for the village that may need more attention.
Want to find other Mamas who just get it?
It’s A Lot is a space for the honest, contradictory and sometimes uncomfortable parts of motherhood. Come as you are. No performance required.
Looking for a podcast guest who can speak honestly about modern motherhood?
I speak about The Motherhood Debt, motherhood and money, relationships after children, default parenting, identity and the five kinds of support modern mums need.
