Hello there Restless One.

I see you.

👋🏻 I’m Anna. An adventurer, author of six books and Mumma to little girl Storm (age 4) and boy/girl twins Rocky and Jupiter (aged 2).

You will likely have arrived here not having a clue who I am. That’s groovy. I’ll fill you in.

Once upon a time…

In a land before I grew humans in my belly I was an adventurer. I spent over a decade gallivanting around the world doing adventures and then coming home to tell stories about those journeys.

Adventures like…

• Running 2,000 miles the length of New Zealand.

• Cycling 11,000 miles through every state of the USA.

• Cycling 5,000 miles along the spine of The Andes Mountains.

• Running 90 marathons through Great Britain… in bare feet.

📚 I wrote six books about those adventures.

🙀 Won a literary award for one of them.

🏆 I was also once named by the Guardian as one of the top modern female adventurers.

💥 And am proud to be the UK Ambassador for Girlguiding

🙅🏼‍♀️ As well as the co-founder of Adventure Queens; the UK’s fastest growing women’s adventure community where 15,000+ women connect every week.

Motherhood — I have learned — is a bigger challenge than any of these adventures.

And so…

Each week I write about how I’m keeping my adventurous spirit alive.

Some posts are about adventure. Some are about travel (because DANG I love to travel) and others about the inner goings on in my mind and the daily chaos in our household.

A household where my partner is an adventurer too.

Above all, weekly posts are honest thoughts and a truckload of flaws — all with a pinch of good humour and a dash of perspective.

Sound like your kinda of thing?

Then welcome, welcome.

Please accept a virtual squeeze and join me and all the other Restless Ones — trying to keep that flame of adventure ALIVE 🔥

What to expect?

Every Thursday, I’ll parachute into your inbox with a tale of adventure, some musings on mindset, or an update on daily life.

It won’t always be pretty but it will either be funny, insightful or… both (steady on).

Paid subscribers get…

🙌🏻 Exclusive, paid-only posts (including my most raw & personal ones)

🎧 A free audiobook and audio-narrated posts

💙 Many, many thank you's (with extra thank-you sprinkles on top)

Free subscribers get…

A couple of posts a month

Fancy getting stuck in right away?

Here are some of my most popular posts:

Chasing Tides: A run to the edge of the world (free)

Let’s Go Sleep On a Mountain (free)

A 16-mile Run with Three Kids: Are we Mad? (free)

EMDR Trauma Therapy (paid)

Friendships in Motherhood (paid with a free preview)

The Overwhelm Episode (Paid with free preview)

Want more of the back story?

I started Restless Mumma because I find being an adventurous spirit and a mother a difficult combo.

When I first became a mum, the me who’d discovered that freedom was her favourite word and loved travel and adventure collided headlong with… a newborn would wouldn’t sleep and a world view which felt like it’d shrunk to the size of my living room.

My body was forever changed.

My boobs were no longer my own.

I loved being a mum, but I missed the old me.

I stumbled through the first year, got the hang of things and then thought, well, in for a penny. ‘Lets go again’ and then BAM…

We had twins…

Holy crackerbarrels, yes we did. Apparently as an older mum (then 38) the chances of of there being more than one belly-bean in womb were high, but had I considered it is a possibility? Psssh. Of course not.

Come January 2023 I had a toddler (aged 2 years and 1 month). And two newborns.

Life got cray-cray.

I lost my way (again).

I lost myself.

Then one night…

I decided that I would do what I have always done in difficult times through life. I would write about it.

And hope to connect with other restless souls out there in the process.

So… here I am.

I can’t wait to have you along for the journey with me.

Big love,

Anna xx