Mar 24, 2020
An inspiring and uplifting interview with Helen Wills, a lifestyle blogger and midlife mum of teenagers. She originally started a blog in the voices of her children but as they grew older she’s found her own voice including just starting a podcast! She’s usually to be found wearing yellow or pink and is a whole lot of fun. We recorded this interview a week before the full coronavirus lockdown in the UK.
We talk about:
- Looking after a child with diabetes under the coronavirus lockdown
- Coping with teenagers at home during lockdown when they want to go out
- Struggling with setting boundaries during lockdown
- Working from home when there are kids around
- Taking it all one day at a time and being gentle
- In time lockdown will just be a blip on the landscape
- How to harness your anxiety as a family to enable coping strategies
- Doing what we need to do to protect the vulnerable including those with invisible vulnerabilities
- Dealing with the uncertainty of diabetes and other diseases
- Tips for working from home
- Our modern day dependence on wifi
- Managing distractions when trying to work from home
- Social distancing and how not to do it
- The lack of social distancing on TV
- Thinking beyond the panic of this unprecedented situation
- Being separated from adult children
- Helping older parents during this time
- Using technology to get through isolation
- How older people can be scared of technology
- Ageing and technology, and not allowing ourselves to become digital dinosaurs
- Having to relearn how to do things
- How everything you need to know, you can learn on the internet
- How learning new skills can be great for maintaining brain health
- Finding nice comfortable shoes not ugly sandals
- How to stop being invisible
- How marketers don’t segment over 50
- How older women are ignored when it comes to advertising
- How we get more diverse as we get older not less
- It’s important to represent our age bracket in a positive light
- Helen’s new podcast called Teenage Kicks
- Providing advice for parents of teens because there wasn’t much available
- Finding hope for dealing with difficult teens, from the experiences of adults who had problems when they were teens
- Feeling reassured that the pandemic will end and life will be fine
Helen's Blog: 10 Ways to Cope with Coronavirus Anxiety
You can find out more about Helen:
Websites | actuallymummy.co.uk spaceinyourcase.com