The journey into motherhood is widely viewed in our society as a special time, where those of us privileged enough to become parents flow naturally through the transition and #cherisheverymoment.

 

But the truth is we are a generation of women who have more pressures and expectations, but less support than ever before. Social media inundates us with perfect images of blissful motherhood, ‘bounce-back’ post-baby bodies and wholesome, clean-living gentle parenting.

 

But at the same time, society is making it even harder for us to live up to these (already impossible) expectations.

 

We’re expected to work as if we don’t have a family, and parent as if we don’t have a job. The fractured nature of modern society means we often live far from the support of family, or without the ‘village’ everyone claims it takes to raise a child. As a result, so many of us experience anxiety, guilt, burnout and problems with our physical health.

 

The Relaxed Mama Club is a space designed to support those mums who feel as though they are just about surviving motherhood, and would like a chance to thrive.