‘I’m a mum of seven – here are my eight key strategies I use to enjoy some time to myself’

Resist the resolutions — every day is a new start, to set new healthy habits that will help us thrive in this new year of motherhood

Ballynahinch motivational speaker Emma Lewis with her seven children

Emma Lewis

Do a couch to 5K run challenge? Join a gym? Get up before the kids every day to work out before anyone else is awake? Cut out all sugar? “A new year, a new me.” That’s the narrative for all in January is it not? Why then on day three am I already struggling?

My name is Emma and I am a 40-year-old busy mum of seven children: Annabelle (13), Mabel (11), Bobby (9), Essie-May (8), Jon (6), Hugh-James (4) and Wilfie (2).