As a busy executive mum, you may not be unfamiliar with those moments when your body just doesn’t feel relaxed or comfortable. You might be sitting still, but your shoulders feel tight, your jaw is set, your neck feels loaded and your thoughts are still moving even though your body is trying to stop. By the end of the day, you feel wired, tired, and somehow still holding tension everywhere. This is the kind of pattern so many executive mums live in without even realising it. Your body stays in a low-grade alert state for so long that it starts to feel normal. In this blog, let’s walk through a few simple techniques you can use to shift your body out of that constant “on” mode and into a calmer, more supported state before tension builds into pain ....
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You don’t actually need to sit perfectly all day. I know it feels like that’s the goal. "Sit straight. Stay upright. Don’t slouch." But if you have ever tried to hold “perfect posture” through a full workday, you already know how quickly it falls apart. Not because you are doing anything wrong, but because your body was never designed to be forced to hold one static position for hours at a time. What your body really needs is a way to come back to a neutral alignment. Gently. Frequently. Without being forced.
In this blog, let’s explore a simple 3-step posture reset you can use during your day to achieve a good posture while reducing the strain on your spine, ease muscular tension and help your body feel supported ...
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You probably start your day with the intentions of sitting in a good posture all day long. You sit down at your desk, adjust your chair, maybe even remind yourself, “Sit straight.” For a little while it feels fine. But somewhere between your second meeting, a few emails, and checking your phone in between, your body quietly shifts. You may not notice it happening. Your back softens into the chair. Your shoulders round. Your head moves slightly forward. And then later in the day … you feel that heaviness in your upper back, the tightness creeping into your neck and maybe even the start of that dull, familiar headache. And you think… “I was sitting properly… so what happened?” In this blog, let’s explore why your posture keeps slipping during the day and what your body is actually needing instead ...
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You know those days when the headache hasn’t started yet, but something just feels off? You are sitting at your desk trying to focus, but your neck feels slightly tight. Your shoulders feel heavier than usual. You find yourself shifting in your chair, rolling your neck, adjusting your position, but nothing really settles. It is not painful enough to stop you, so you push through. And then a few hours later, the headache sets in. By that point, it feels sudden. But in reality, your body has been signalling this much earlier. In this blog, we will break down the early signs your neck is starting to overload and how to step in before it progresses into a full headache ....
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As an executive mum, the long hours at a desk and high mental load leave very little time to reset the body, leading to tight spots. They are called trigger points and they form when muscle fibres stay in a low level contracted state for too long. Initially they might feel minor, so you keep going with meetings, emails, school pickups, dinner and a million other tasks in the day. Over time, they start to restrict blood flow, irritate nearby nerves, and create that familiar combination of dull ache, stiffness, and sometimes even headaches. In this blog, lets discuss what are trigger points and some easy ways to relieve them without adding more to your already busy day ...
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