Much like Midlife, motherhood isn’t always the rainbows and unicorns and shiny family photos we continually see on TV and in social media. Our featured guest on the Redefining Midlife Podcast is Mary McConville. She is the artist and mum behind the instagram page Growupbrite that offers mums a combination of advice and support for the everyday challenges of motherhood. She uses her experiences in motherhood and years as a social worker and pre-school educator to inspire mums to thrive in motherhood. Her illustrations and words are just beautiful and they sum up the real life and real feelings of motherhood. Listen as Jo and Mary discuss:

• When motherhood is not what we expect and our children do a 180, which can surprise us and throw us into a spiral.

• How positive and negative experiences can be a catalyst to help others.

• Keeping in touch with who you are in motherhood, in order to preserve our sense of self within midlife and beyond.

• Playing the role of the modern mum muse and how we can reimagine motherhood, even when we are in the thick of it.

I’m sure that many of you will identify with so much of our chat, we cover a range of topics, including motherhood. I encourage you to follow Mary via her Instagram www.instagram.com/growupbrite/ and website https://growupbrite.com/.

To connect with Jo personally, we would love to hear from you. Head over to www.joclarkcoaching.com for more information. You can also find Jo on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/joclarkcoaching/ and Private Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenswellnesscollective1. Look forward to connecting.

Here’s to redefining midlife and making our next half of life even better than the first.