Hi, I am Kathryn - The Working Parents Sleep Coach & Mentor
How can I help you?
As an ambitious business owner and mum to two beautiful yet highly spirited children, I support you to navigate and overcome your own challenges of balancing motherhood and your career.
Whether you are looking for sleep or motherhood mentoring and coaching, I support you to find practical solutions for the challenges that motherhood has thrown your way, whether that be a lack of sleep, time, balance, control or adult connection. Whilst working with me, you feel heard, armed with practical solutions and advice and guidance. All with the common goal of reconnecting with your true self.
“They say when you become a mum you gain so much. But no one ever really talks about how much you lose”
Welcoming our first child to the world, literally shattered my unrealistic expectations of motherhood into a million pieces. Where did I get this ridiculous idea that I was going to smash being a mum with one hand and thrive at my business with the other? Or think I was going to sleep when the baby does? Or that life was going to be exactly the same?
This couldn’t have been further from the truth. My first year as a parent was spent in serious sleep debt, unhappy, drained, unwell and basically feeling like I was failing at everything. I genuinely resented that my husband got to drink hot cups of tea, drove on his own in the car, and got to go to work.
I never seemed able to be that super mum that I was striving to be. Why couldn’t I have it all like all the other mums seemed to? Why did they have their shit together? I had completely and utterly lost who I was and had no idea how to feel happy again.
In my second year of this bumpy ride, we welcomed our 2nd baby, luckily she was polar opposite to our first. She was calm and slept 95% of the time. However having now had two children, led to new normal challenges like feeling you were abandoning your first child, anxiety about looking after them both on my own, being even more tired, double mum guilt and having even less time for myself.
I know that my start to motherhood was rocky, and not plain sailing. In the last 5 years my parenting lessons have consisted of extreme morning sickness, post natal depression and insomnia, peri natal anxiety, chronic fatigue and illness, breastfeeding challenges, marriage struggles, premature birth, giving birth to the biggest sleep thief going, reflux and allergy children, additional needs, neurodiversity and nursery exclusions to name a few. All whilst running my business alongside this learning journey.
How did I navigate all of these problems?
They say a problem shared is a problem halved and I am a firm believer in there is always an expert out there that can support you to find a solution to a problem quicker than you can. I have worked with counsellors, personal and business coaches, health practitioners, EFT/NLP experts, lactation consultants, sleep consultants and charities. I have learnt so much from all of these professionals and each one of them has supported me to find solutions. All these amazing experts have taught me so much, of which I still utilise personally today but also share with my clients. I could not have re-found happiness without the support of people that had walked my or a similar path.
I have developed a passion and love for helping parents to find solutions to their daily challenges so that they can live their happiest and healthiest life possible. Initially this started with my sleep coaching business and now this has developed and evolved to supporting parents who also do not have sleep thieves. I draw on my personal lessons of becoming a mother, as well as my expertise of supporting hundreds of working parents across the globe. This experience also compliments my training and qualifications in Gentle and Holistic Sleep Coaching, BSc in Child Development, Advice and Guidance, and Emotional Freedom Technique.
The most popular words that my clients and friends use to describe me are resourceful, ambitious and pragmatic. I am no perfect parent, parenting continues to be a series of lessons and it still challenges me most days. Like a lot of parents, I find going to work easier and sometimes more enjoyable. I’m mum to Oliver and Ruby, wife to Jonno, I spend my “spare time” (outside of parenting and working), going to the gym, seeing my friends and sipping redbush tea.
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