The Unbalanced Mother - Anna Hancock

The Unbalanced Mother

Raising a family has its challenges but never more so than when you are battling your own physical and mental health disabilities. Our blogger, and iVillage.co.uk Community Leader, Anna Hancock, shares her experiences of being a single mum with a mind and body that don’t work as well as they should in her blog, which is sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and always thought-provoking.

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Learning to clip my wings

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Sep 21

It's the wearing, not the walking that counts

Never take a man shoe shopping with you. It's not that they get bored of sitting around while you try on endless pairs, or that they mumble embarrassingly about how they can buy four pairs for the price of one of your sequinned buckles, it's more that men are only interested in one type of...

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Jun 11

The reality of living with OCD

It's not often I applaud the 'let's point and laugh at the weirdo but dress it up as a documentary' type of tv programme but just for once I am grateful. There seem to have been a number of programmes recently on people with OCD who are hoarders. Of course, the programmes centre on...

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Apr 10

All the small things...

Sometimes it’s not the bigger picture that makes disability or chronic illness hard to live with. More often, it’s the little things, especially the little things that go wrong or that change that make all the difference. Last week I hadn’t been to the garage to put petrol in the...

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Mar 09

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

Size 14. I used to think a size 14 was unimaginably huge, now it is something I aspire to, slimmer but shapely and no risk of losing too much weight off my face, in case there are lines hiding under there! Yes, once upon a time everyday life kept me fit and in shape. Working full time, running...

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Feb 28

Wrong end of the stick

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with my walking stick. Having it means I can walk further, get out more and most of all avoid the embarrassment of toppling over in front of a load of strangers (an embarrassment I have tried and tested many times!). I should love this slim enabler, but it...

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Feb 20

When you see me in the morning

Let’s face it, Monday mornings are testing in any household. Kids to be breakfasted, washed, dressed and bags packed, then the hassles of the school run. If you saw me at the school gate on a Monday morning you might think that my morning had been pretty similar to your own, the only hint...

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