22/07/2025
The invisible load of motherhood 💭
It’s not just packed lunches and school runs. It’s…
📅 Making appointments
🛍 Buying clothes
📚 Managing school paperwork
🎒 Remembering school uniforms
👩⚕️ Dentist and doctor visits
💇♀️ Haircuts, opticians
💊 Taking time off — sometimes last minute
👩💻 Working while looking after a sick child
🧾 Paying bills
🏡 Keeping the household in order
🎁 Buying gifts and birthday presents
📆 Organising family trips, playdates, weekends and holidays
🏊♀️ Swimming lessons, football club
🤹♀️ Juggling too many balls — always
💔 Being the default parent, emotional crutch, and everything in between
🧠 Feeling burnt out, run down, and constantly needed
😓 No time for yourself — even for basic self-care
🌙 Can’t sleep. Endless worry. Low confidence. Crushed self-esteem. Feeling invisible
And still… you show up. Every. Single. Day.
This is the mental load so many mums carry — silently, endlessly.
This is the mental load of motherhood. It’s overwhelming. It’s exhausting. And it’s so often unseen.
To the mums holding it all together — I see you. You are doing an incredible job. You deserve rest, support, and care too. 💚
If this speaks to you, take the first step toward rest.
✨ Book in with me at &Relax Massage Therapy for the most needed hour of your life. Because you deserve to feel held, too. 💚