Look at the picture of the woman to the left.  Can you often relate to feeling the way this woman? Are you allowing yourself the time to be an individual as well as a mother? 

Especially when your children are young and they are at their most demanding, it can be easy for a mum to forget about herself and become consumed by her role as a mum.  You begin to define yourself by your role as a mum and quickly lose sight of who you are, forgetting that you once had a life outside of your household duties.

Time Out for you is really important for you to maintain balance and calmness in your life.  When you become consumed with anything, regardless of how enjoyable it was to begin with, you can end up becoming resentful, or tired of it and that's where anger, frustration and impatience take place.

But we know this. There is endless advice given to mums that tells us how important time out is. You would have even experienced first-hand how much clearer and happier you are after taking time out, so logically you know that it's beneficial for you.

But why don't you take time out more often?

Because you have beliefs about why its not a priority.  Think about the last time you thought about having time out and didn't. What did you say to yourself about taking time out?  What was the story you told yourself about why something else had to come first?  If you take notice of these conversations with yourself you will become aware that you are not making yourself a priority because you consider that something else has more importance over your time out.

In The Happy Mum Handbook you will discover exactly what your beliefs are about taking time out and learn how to change these beliefs and start making yourself a priority too.  You will come to understand how you prioritise things and why and then learn to look at how you can re-prioritise your life to include your time too.

We know its really important to take the time, but maybe you just don't think that there is enough time for what you would like to do.  Well, let me tell you that there is time for everything.  It's all about prioritising, organising and becoming aware of how you think about what needs to be done. In The Happy Mum Handbook, we use the Mind TRACK to Happiness process to show you how it can be done.