67 | The Motherwhelm with Kim | Motherhood, Loneliness & Building Mum Walk

<p><strong>In this episode of The Motherwhelm, I sit down with Kimberley, founder of Mum Walk, to talk about the reality of becoming a mother far from family during the pandemic, the isolation of early motherhood, and how those experiences eventually led her to build the community she had needed herself.</strong></p><p>Kim shares the shock of becoming a mother after years of being deeply career-focused, a difficult first birth in London, postpartum depression, and life with a colicky baby while separated from family in Australia. We also talk about her very different second experience of birth and postpartum, the identity shift of matrescence, and why connection with other mothers can make such a profound difference.</p><p>We then trace Mum Walk from one local Facebook post to a growing grassroots movement creating free, accessible spaces for mothers to walk, talk, and build community together.</p><p>This is a conversation about giving ourselves more grace, making motherhood visible, and recognising that if we want mothers to have a village, we have to build it together.</p><p><strong>Resources mentioned:</strong></p><p>mumwalk.org</p><p><strong>Topics discussed:</strong></p><p>Motherhood identity, matrescence, pregnancy, pelvic girdle pain, maternity care in the UK and Australia, birth during COVID, birth trauma, postpartum depression, colic, sleep deprivation, maternal isolation, second-time motherhood, positive birth, postpartum body changes, chronic pelvic pain, community, friendship, Mum Walk, mothers’ groups, social connection, the nuclear family, third spaces, maternal wellbeing, volunteer community leadership, the mental and unpaid load of motherhood, self-doubt, grace and building the village.</p>