Edwina Taylor
Womb Therapist & Educator
Helping women reconnect with their body, womb & nervous system
Speaker | Facilitator | Since 2006
21/06/2026
Today I attended an ADHD conference and had the opportunity to hear from Rebecca Folitzpatrick Masters Psychology
One of the things she and other speakers spoke about stayed with me long after I left.
It wasn't ADHD itself. It was the high-functioning women.
The women who have spent their entire lives compensating.
- Working harder.
- Trying harder.
- Overachieving.
- Creating systems.
- Double checking everything.
- Holding themselves to impossibly high standards.
The women who look like they have it all together because from the outside they often do.
They are successful. Capable. Reliable.
The are the women everyone else depends on.
Yet underneath that can be a lifetime of feeling like they are somehow falling short.
- Not organised enough.
- Not disciplined enough.
- Not focused enough.
- Not good enough.
As I listened today, I found myself thinking about the women I work with.
How many have spent years believing they are the problem.
How many learnt as children that they needed to try harder, do better and work more just to keep up.
How many turned behaviours into identity.
"I forgot something."
Becomes... "I'm hopeless."
"I got distracted."
Becomes... "I'm lazy."
"I struggle to keep up."
Becomes... "I'm not enough."
What struck me most was that many of these women don't look like they are struggling.
Becausw they are functioning.
Achieving.
Leading.
Parenting.
Building businesses.
Holding everything together.
And that's exactly why they so often go unseen.
Today's conference was a beautiful reminder that sometimes what looks like disorganisation, procrastination or inconsistency is so much more complex than that.
Perhaps women have spent years carrying stories about themselves that were never true in the first place.
I'd love to know...
Did you grow up feeling like you had to work harder than everyone else just to feel like you were enough?
Something I wasn't expecting after getting my results back was how hard it would be to switch off.
I still have one semester to go before I graduate, but out of my entire 6 years this last semester was the hardest.
Peri menopause decided to up its game which really affected my ability to juggle and function and from April I had two assignments due every two weeks until the end of semester. That was a lot.
So I became hyper focused. I had to use so much energy to stay on the ball that now, as I'm coming down from that intensity and I have no assignment hanging over my head, I'm realising just how much I've been holding.
I'm still carrying the stress of that energy.
If I wasn't studying, I was thinking about the clinic or what needs doing at home. There was always something and it was always urgent.
Don't get me wrong, this is the life of uni and I've managed just fine, but this last year in peri menopause has changed everything.
I'm also warning all the young ladies at uni about peri menopause lol....
The other morning Wez and I took the dog for a walk. I get a chai, we chat, it's the best part of being off, but most of the time my mind was racing.
Am I meant to be somewhere?
Should I be in the clinic?
Have I forgotten an assignment?
Is there something I should be doing right now?
The funny thing is, just because the pressure has eased doesn't mean my mind got the memo.
I've been "on" for so long that part of me is still waiting for the next thing.
Then I remembered there was nowhere I needed to be and I took a breath and hugged a tree lol....
So over this break I'm recalibrating, doing the things that nourish me and gearing myself up for the last hoorah.
Peri menopause is no picnic.
I really admire women who study during this stage of their lives because it's hard and it's also a process of letting go. You can't control peri menopause or how it affects you no matter how much you want to.
It's something else....
Tell me I'm not the only one...
Have you ever finished something big and then found yourself wandering around wondering what you're supposed to be doing next? 😂
The results are in 😯 in my dressing gown, 8am this morning - there are no filters here in my dressing gown, no make up. Coming to you in the moment.
I have never had a harder semester than this one.
As its my final year there are no more years to pick up the unit again, if I failed i would have to repeat this next year and I would have to wait a year to graduate.
Advanced statistics is absolute bull$hit but I still had to do it as part of my psychology degree. No passion here for stats.
I handed in my final assignment at 11.11 two weeks ago, knowing that I had to get a certain mark to pass this unit because at that stage I hadnt passed.
Even though uni had finished I havent been able to relax. I have been anxious, waiting on whether I had passed or not and trying not to think about what if I have failed.
I had to really hone in on my regulation tools this past 2 weeks and then getting the results today, just tears. I cried and cried and cried calling my Wez and besties, I didnt realise the pressure and responsibility I had been holding on myself. I knew it was there, but it was more than I thought.
Doing a degree in your 40s going through peri menopause is something else. Its really hard! I dont recommend it lol....
But the relief. Oh the relief to know 1 more semester and then Im done is the best feeling.
To know that I stuck at this for 6 years and through all the seasons of self doubt, fear, setbacks, busyness - Im going to make it.
I do wonder how Im going to feel when I graduate lol... wait who am I kidding? I know that I will be an emotional mess. 1st person in my family to graduate on both sides thats a pretty big deal changing what's possible for the women who come after me and now seeing Charlotte go to uni - together we are making big change together which is special.
So I can exhale now, thankyou to my gorgeous community for supporting and backing me every step of the way. Not long now, graduation here I come 🎉
We can do hard things!
14/06/2026
There comes a point where you realise that no amount of achievement, productivity or self-development is fixing the problem.
Because the problem was never confidence.
The women I work with are intelligent, capable and responsible.
They hold families together.
Lead teams.
Run businesses.
Support everyone around them.
Yet underneath it all they often feel:
• restless
• overwhelmed
• guilty when resting
• unable to switch off
• constantly "on"
Not because they're failing but because their nervous system learnt that safety came from doing, achieving and carrying more.
You can know all the mindset tools in the world and still struggle to slow down because its not a mindset issue its a nervous system that only feels safe when its busy.
08/06/2026
Many women have become so used to carrying everything that they no longer question it.
They carry the emotional load.
The mental load.
The responsibility.
The expectations.
The pressure to hold it all together.
Over time, needing help can start to feel uncomfortable.
Receiving can feel unfamiliar.
Slowing down can feel unsafe.
Yet carrying everything alone was never the goal.
We are wired for connection, support and community.
Strength is not measured by how much you can carry before you break.
True strength is knowing when to ask for help, when to set a boundary and when to let someone walk beside you.
You were never meant to carry everything alone.
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