WHY I STARTED

Running has saved me. More than once. Not in a dramatic, single-moment way. In the accumulated, quiet way that only makes sense if you’ve felt it - where you come back from a run and something has shifted.

Where you left as one version of yourself and returned as a slightly better one. More patient. More present. More capable of the life you’re trying to build. I’ve felt that enough times that I couldn’t ignore it. And when I started reading the research - the neuroscience, the psychology, the maternal wellbeing literature - I understood why.

Running doesn’t just make you fitter. It makes you happier. And there is a very specific, very well-documented scientific reason for that. Almost nobody is talking about it properly. I decided I would.

WHAT THIS IS ABOUT

I’m exploring why running is the key to happiness in motherhood - and sharing what I discover through research, writing and community.

Not to tell you to run more. Not to sell you a programme. To help you understand - through evidence, through honest writing, through real stories from real women - why running gives you something that nothing else quite does.

And then to help you get to the point where you actually want to do it. Not because you feel guilty. Not because someone told you to. Because you understand what’s on the other side. That shift - from running because you should to running because you genuinely want to - is called intrinsic motivation. It’s what the behaviour change research says is the only thing that makes exercise truly sustainable. Building that understanding is what everything here is working toward. And none of this has to cost a lot. Running is free. The research I share is free. An active, happy life in motherhood is not a luxury reserved for the time-rich or the wealthy. I am absolutely committed to that.