A Geelong dog trainer who became a mum - reflections

A lot in me just wants to run away and just be in the safety of my own home with my baby, living in our own beautiful bubble.

But alas I live in a world that is not designed for me.

I’m a woman.

I have recently become a mum.

But I also have a business.

And day by day I find myself wondering if this is what I even want to do, because I don’t feel like the woman that I was before I had my baby.

In a way this is normal for most of you who have been in my similar spot, Not necessarily as a dog trainer but as a working woman.

You thought it’d be easy to go back straight to work after you had the baby, but then you hold them for the first time.

You realise that your life is never going to be the same, because it’s like taking a blue pill that shows you how the world really is.

But the beauty of changes it doesn’t mean that you are worse off, Sometimes it means that you’re actually in a new and better place.

What I want to viewed as potentially downfalls to my personality like empathy and compassion, I now view as strengths as I raise my little human.

In terms of business, I may never be the same dog trainer that I was before I had him. In a way, I never want to be again.

Because now I’ve noticed her.

The woman who is going through motherhood the same way I am.

But not just any Mother the one who’s also having the burden of care around their dogs.

And now that I notice her, I cannot see the fact that she needs someone who knows exactly what she’s going through.

Someone exactly like me.

How am I going to help this woman?

Keep an eye out in this space.

Mindfulness Dog Training is changing and it will be changing for the better.