All motherhood articles
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Opinion‘I prayed for 365 days to overcome the loneliness and challenges of raising a newborn’
This Lent, Cristina Turlacu reflects on the quiet power of daily prayer and how it can gently transform your day-to-day life. Through her personal journey of motherhood, she invites you to be encouraged to pray and discover how even the simplest words whispered in faith can bring strength, peace, and lasting change.
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OpinionHigh School Musical star Ashley Tisdale’s toxic mum group experience and what faith teaches us about inclusion
Becky Hunter Kelm reflects on Ashley Tisdale’s experience and explores why mums need villages marked by kindness, inclusion, and grace rather than mean-girl dynamics.
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OpinionHow I realised I had made an idol of motherhood
Vicki Courtney reflects on how the good desire for motherhood can become an idol. Through her daughter’s pain, she’s reminded that a woman’s true worth lies not in motherhood, but in being a beloved child of God.
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Opinion‘This is how God restored me after I lost my twin babies’
Angelina Amedeka shares her journey of faith, loss, and redemption — showing how every “amen” spoken in pain or joy becomes part of God’s beautiful design.
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ArticleWill you still love my children?
Rhiannon Goulding shares what happened when some of her children ‘came out’
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Opinion‘How did I get to 33 as a Christian woman and not know this about miscarriage?’
As Baby Loss Awareness Week begins, writer Jane Knoop urges Christian women to break the silence around miscarriage. She calls for greater honesty and compassion in sharing these hidden experiences with younger generations.
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OpinionTrusting God through the different seasons of motherhood
Danielle Finch explores the highs and humbling lows of motherhood, sharing how each season, whether joyful or challenging, has drawn her closer to God.
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ArticleThe untold stories of motherhood
Every week Dr Sarah-Louise Hurst, a perinatal clinical psychologist, listens to women who are struggling after difficult births and/or finding it hard to bond with their babies. She believes it is time such women are given space outside the therapy room to be heard, supported – and no longer shamed
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OpinionWomenswear designer Karen Millen has shamed mothers who breastfeed beyond six months
As a midwife, Michelle Tant was appalled at the response to a viral video of a woman breastfeeding her toddler and points to Bible references giving credence to its benefits.
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OpinionI thank God for my mother (who is also my best friend)
‘In this mother-and-daughter relationship, we are fiercely for each other, fiercely opinionated and fiercely determined to set an example for what a mother-daughter relationship could and should look like,’ says Jessica Stark.
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OpinionHere’s how to celebrate Mother’s Day if you’re struggling with heartbreak from baby loss
Having lost two children at birth, Funke Oham wrote a book about her experience and now shares tips on how to navigate the pain.
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS I am in the ‘Sandwich Generation’ and drowning
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, relationships and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here, Dr Sarah-Louise Hurst answers a woman who feels pulled in every direction.
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OpinionA woman returning pregnant from maternity leave is not a case for dismissal - and there are biblical grounds for offering grace in these situations
‘Even when it costs us financially, we are called to do what is right,’ says Shakira Peronet, as she looks at the case of a woman who had to fight her employers for justice.
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OpinionLiam Payne’s death reminded me of how we all need to find our identity in Christ
‘God never intended for our roles in life or our circumstances to become our identity,’ says Danielle Finch, as she reflects on Liam Payne’s death, and her own life as a disabled mother.
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OpinionMothering without a mother: finding strength in God through grief
’Raising my daughter without my mother’s physical presence, even just over these past few months, has pushed me to lean into God’s promises more than ever,’ says Bethany Hobbs.
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ArticleYour history is not your legacy (AKA You are not your mother)
Cathy Madavan encourages us to remember that we won’t simply repeat what our mothers did – but nor should we expect our daughters to be just like us
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OpinionWomen in South Korea are faced with having a job or having children
Becky Hunter-Kelm is grateful for the Flexible Working Bill, passed earlier this month, which will help working mothers in the UK hugely. She takes a look at how without flexible working conditions, women in South Korea are choosing not to have babies.
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OpinionHope is so important in Princess Kate’s cancer diagnosis
’Human life is comprised of mind, body, soul and spirit and investment in each of these components is integral in our passage towards healing’ says Hannah Wickins. As a mother close in age to the Princess of Wales, she went through a health battle and understands the deep sense of responsibility for your children riding alongside an innate drive to survive.
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OpinionMothers don’t need more advice, here’s five reasons why
A few weeks after having a baby, Shakira Peronet said to her husband ‘please remind me to not give advice to new mothers unless they’ve asked for it’. She explains what we can do to support them instead.
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ArticleNurtured in the hidden places
Jill Duff, Bishop of Lancaster and former director of St Mellitus College, North West, spoke with Jane Knoop about the topsy-turvy nature of God’s kingdom
