29 SEP 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the lovely actress Ali Bastian. Ali and Anna chat what it's like to have a baby just days before the pandemic, sleepless nights, thinking you've cracked parenting until another hurdle comes up, anxiety, co-parenting and always having a stash of chocolate in the cupboard. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

22 SEP 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week on Breaking Mum and Dad Anna is speaking to Wilbroda Akuro from the brilliant mothers2mothers. Wilbroda talks to Anna all the way from Kenya about finding out she's HIV positive whilst pregnant, the support she found from mothers2mothers' Mentor Mothers, giving birth to an HIV negative son, the tragic baby loss she experienced with her first and how that impacted her mental health, giving birth to a second son, being a single mother as well as shedding light on the brilliant She's Got the Power campaign launching on the 28th September. Visit www.m2m.org/power to find out more. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

15 SEP 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! We're back at home, joined by Anna and her husband Alex. This week the topic of choice is holidays! Anna and Alex sit down to talk all about the anxieties and stresses around travel and holidays with little ones, planes, trains and RVs, the umming and aahing over travel post-lockdown, passport photos, culture differences, tips, stories and more. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

8 SEP 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the founder of Down Syndrome UK and mum of two, Nicola Enoch. Nicola chats to Anna about her experience with having a child with Down syndrom, the ignorance around Down's, the importance of language, how far things have come for those with Downs, how far there is to go and embracing your child. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

25 AUG 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is show business legend, Arlene Phillips! Arlene and Anna chat about Arlene's Damehood, having a ten day break in filming in which to give birth, being a working mum, the guilt that accompanies it, being an older mother to her second daughter and the stigma and comments that can come with that, whether she's a 'stage mum' or not and the joy in being a grandparent. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

18 AUG 2021 · !Trigger Warning! This episode touches on abusive relationships, so please protect your mental health and skip the episode, or seek help if you are affected. Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. On Breaking Mum and Dad this week is the fabulous, award winning blogger Hayley McLean! Hayley and Anna touch on three big topics, Hayley's experience in an abusive relationship and how that affected her, coming through that and meeting her partner, having three kids under three, and developing a fear of birth; body positivity and what thin privilege is; and raising her daughter who identifies as trans. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

11 AUG 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Real Housewife Nicole Sealey joins Anna! Nicole talks to Anna about everythng from living on her own by 15, through a cancer diagnosis and IVF and now seeing her kids off to university, menopause and being a kickass business woman. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

4 AUG 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Anna is joined by Rachel Brace, author and psychologist, specialising in support for stepparents and their partners. Rachel and Anna chat the challenges a step family can bring, introducing a new partner to children, dealing with behaviour that may flare up, learning to look beyond words and advice for anyone going through it, plus her new book 'Harriet's Expanding Heart'. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

28 JUL 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week Anna is joined by comedian and tv personality Babatunde Aleshe. Baba talks to Anna about acting the part of the dad he didn't have, how hard parenting is, dealing with racial prejudice at his son's school, a hilarious birth story, sticking as a family unit in the weeks after baby arrived and dealing with hard parts in your relationship. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial

21 JUL 2021 · Welcome to Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast! This is the podcast that talks all about parental mental health, the highs and lows of parenting and everything in between. This week is a bit different on Breaking Mum and Dad. Anna invited two guests on the podcast. One, Catherine Hudson, Talent manager for NSPCC and Leanne, a lady who after giving birth to her son in 2016 really struggled with her mental health. The ladies chat about their births, the struggles they faced as parents following those births, feeling a lack of support and the need for it. Plus, the NSPCC's Fight For a Fair Start Campaign, urging the government to prioritise rebuilding the health visiting workforce to make sure that professionals have the time to identify parents experiencing, or at risk of, perinatal mental health problems. If you’d like to support the NSPCC’s Fight For a Fair Start campaign you can sign the petition by searching “NSPCC Fight for a Fair Start” on Google, clicking on the Fight for a Fair Start page where you can join the campaign and sign the petition where you live. Listen by clicking ‘Play’, subscribe on iTunes and please do rate and review to help spread the word.   Look out for new episodes every Wednesday and keep the conversation going. @annawilliamsonofficial