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🏙️ from the city life to hertfordshire 🍃

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The RyRy in action. Forget carrying heavy, bulky car seats and travel in style with our seat the folds away neatly into a rucksack.

Travel car seat | Travel with kids | Travel with toddlers

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it’s not all doom & gloom 💫🌷💕

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Onto the next phase 🤞🏼

It’s been a while since I shared anything. I was hoping I’d be able to give a positive update but sadly cancer has other plans.

After a gruelling 4 months on IV chemo, my scans from December showed that I’d responded well & the tumours had shrunk / were hardly noticeable. Chemo had done its job! I needed to successfully complete the IV course, in order to be eligible to move onto a different drug which focused on my BRCA2 mutation. A targeted therapy that would hopefully keep things at bay for a while and allow me to have longer on other forms of chemotherapy.

Unfortunately, my most recent scans showed that there is, once again, significant disease progression 💔 the treatment I’ve been on since December, doesn’t look like it’s worked at all. I’m gutted. It feels like everything I’ve been through in the last 6 - 8 months, has been pointless. I took a huge risk, put my body through absolute hell, in the hope that this was the best option for me to live a little longer. It didn’t pay off. I’m trying to reframe my thought process though - if I didn’t try, I’d never know and things could have been worse (unlikely but it’s a coping mechanism).

So I’m moving onto a new treatment, my 4th in under two years. Not looking good 😃 but trying to stay hopeful that this one will actually do the job & I’ll possibly get another year. But it’s not a guarantee and that is so horrifying to come to terms with.
Filled with fear.
Side effects sound brutal.
Life will be rough.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me and checked in regularly since you found out, you know who you are 🫶🏼

The fight continues, it’s exhausting and debilitating. It feels relentless. But truthfully, every time I walk into an oncologist’s office and I’m not told “there’s nothing more we can do”, I feel extremely lucky. Because one day, those words will be spoken.
Going to give it what I’ve got left & hopefully this time, the stars will align and I’ll get a little bit of myself back. Let’s see.
Never expected my life to be cut so unfairly short 💔
Be grateful for what you have, do the things that make you feel alive & tell your people that you love them. 🤍

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Thank you @hanexplores_ for including us in your highlights for October. You have certainly had a jam packed month making lots of wonderful memories ❤️ We look forward to welcoming you back again soon ☺️

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When was the last time you gave your scalp the same care as your skin? 🧖🏽‍♀️
 We met @hairbyhannnnf who had no idea she had build-up sitting on her scalp, until we scanned it. After a full Nourrir treatment (and our On Balance Soothing Toner to lock it all in), her scalp was clean, calm and balanced… and her hair? Instantly revived.

Healthy scalp = healthy hair. It’s that simple.

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Life over the last few weeks in photos 📸

1 & 2 - Belated birthday/engagement celebrations with my girly @_abenaobeng_ 🍹
3 - Sunday Church wearing @hm_kids ⛪️
4 & 5 - Midweek park dates with bub, full outfit is @babymoriofficial 👢
6 & 7 - Sunday strolls and cakes at @fortitudebakehouse the Blueberry Banana sourdough Bread was incredible! 🫐 🍞
8 & 9 - Mud kitchen & outdoor play at @the_garden_classroom 🪏🪴
10 & 11 - Amelia’s first theatre experience watching Wow! Said the Owl! at @littleangeltheatre thanks to @aboutgracepr which was perfect! 🎭 🦉
12 - Healthy lunch out 🥗
13 - Sometimes a contact nap, always in @babymoriofficial sleep bags 💤
14 - Gym days with @mrssusiejenkins the BEST trainer 🏋️‍♀️
15 - Footmuff season of course in @baababy 🐑
16 - Shopping days with the help of @babybjorn for out and about naps! 👶🏻
17 & 18 - Soft Play/ Park Dates with friends @hanexplores_ 🛝
19 & 20 - Lunch at @theivyasia 🍱

*contains some pr items

#photodump #weekendcatchup #october #octobervibes #autumnishere #autumnvibe #memories #ukmum #ukbride #mummydaughtertime #londonmum #yummymummy #photodiary #roundup #mylife #mylittleone #weekinphotos #myweekinpictures #girlydate #matedate #grateful #gratefulthankfulblessed #sunday

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Teething is made better by having matching Friendship teethers with your besties!
The Friendship I LOVE U Teether, is now available on Amazon😍

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We love your feedback 🫶🏻

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Shop from our Bio if you want long, healthy, beautiful hair

#nourrir #hair #haircare #customerreview #testimonial #ugc #scalptreatment

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🌴🍹🧖‍♀️ Buch-a-REST 🧖‍♀️🍹🌴
Don’t have to ask us twice!!!
@therme_bucuresti

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#bucharest #romania #therme #spa #citybreaks #cousins

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Your existence doesn’t need to be earned or justified.

And when you realize this, you’re free to focus on what lights up your INTERNAL validation.

So, play. Explore. Make shit. Let yourself be “bad” at something. Be weird.

Listen to yourself.

And hold space for others to do the same.

If we can all honor what we internally are calling for, it actually allows us to connect BETTER to others.

I think of it like those old string lights, the kind that won’t light up properly if just one tiny bulb isn’t screwed in properly 🎄

Imagine each individual is just one bulb, and the full string of lights is humanity as a whole.
Each one of us attending to our needs, making sure that we’re screwed in properly, is ESSENTIAL for the vitality of the whole 💡

I think we’re often taught, whether explicitly or implicitly, that we need to ignore our needs to take care of others.

That it’s selfish to listen to ourselves and our needs—but the only people who would ask you to ignore tightening your own light bulb are the people who are also not tightening theirs. Maybe they don’t know it’s possible to fix the whole. Maybe they forgot their own power.

But ignoring MORE unscrewed lightbulbs doesn’t help the whole of the string lights at all.

In fact, sometimes the best way to help someone tighten their own lightbulb is to show them it CAN be done by tightening yours. Giving someone the space to empower themselves to tighten their own bulb can actually be an act of mutual respect and love.

This interconnection is not abstract—it’s real. Every breath you take is borrowed from the trees; every step you take is supported by the earth. The energy that keeps you alive is the same energy that fuels the stars. You are not just in the world; you are the world, expressed uniquely in human form.

In the end, the most important message is this: You are not alone. You never were. And you are a vital part of the whole. Live with that awareness, and you’ll not only honor your own existence—you’ll honor all of existence 🌏

#collectiveconsciousness #takecareofourplanet #selfcareisnotselfish #selfcareissacred #youmatteralways

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Ever so cute Ellis 💙

#newbornphotography
#londonnewbornphotographer
#londonnewbornphotography
#londonmums
#londonmumsnetwork
#studiophotography

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