Today’s episode is an interview with Lolly Williams-Gibbs. Lolly is a Life Design Coach and conscious parenting mentor. She empowers Mums, particularly SEND mums and those with chronic illnesses, who have lost their self esteem and self identity, like she had. Teaching them to live life by their design and create the life they truly desire, with a bit of conscious parenting and behaviour support thrown in. After all, once we've learnt how to live our best lives, isn't that what we all want for children? If we can teach them, the tools and new positive beliefs in their childhood that they can embed and use naturally into their adulthood, we may, just may end up with the next generation not in such a mental health crisis!
And of course some book recommendations (see list below).
Here are some of the key takeaways from this episode:
- The importance of teaching your children the same tools that your learn about living life by design.
- Being a parent carer.
- Designing your life around you health, your family.
- Planning as a family. Planning sessions, and communicating regularly. Prioritising time for this.
- Playing to the strengths of each partner, and learning from each other.
- Embedding small habits to get the foundations for life and business in place.
- Body Doubling for ADHD.
- Using screen time when needed to allow you to get things done as Mum.
- Fibromyalgia and how this has forced Lolly to re-assess & prioritise self-care.
- How being diagnosed with ADHD, fibromyalgia, depression and anxiety affected her.
- Self awareness - listening to your system and body rather than being stuck in masculine hustle.
- How a business evolved from offering advice after leaving a job in teaching.
- Helping Mums who feel lost without having to niche her business as she was being told by the experts.
- Incorporating Life by Design into her every day life
- Leaving a narcissistic relationship and finding herself again.
- Ignore everyone else's advice and follow your own path.
- Morning Success Ritual. How this sets Lolly up for the day. Not looking at your phone until you have finished your morning ritual.
- How to avoid being sucked in by notifications on social media. How allocating days to "be mum" is beneficial.
- The importance of mental health awareness in the educational system
- Listening to what your body needs and taking action to help Weekly planning sessions as parents
- The impact of a morning routine on mindset for the day ahead
Find the show notes and the links to recommended tools and books here.
