It’s now been 2 months since my Filipino helper decided to give me a birthday present. I will not lie. Life has been tough. Very tough. Tougher still because I have what the Doctor calls Stress Induced Asthma (on top of my normal asthma). And when your baby cries non-stop, you start to hyperventilate. Your bronchial tubes choke up, you start choking and coughing and gasping for air and your inhalers no longer work because the passages down to the lungs are all clogged. Thus the medicine reaches as far as your mouth. Very scary indeed.

The Doctor has since warned me that I need to manage my stress levels (and although he gave me some steroid pills, the same ones I used to take when I used to be hospitalised every year in the UK for asthma, on top of my steroid inhalers and normal Ventolin inhalers; he said I really needed to not have stress in my life – yeah, what a joke) and I have been working hard to do that. But I haven’t done it without help. I have the loveliest friends from Blogosphere who have been so, so, so, sooooooooooooooo, SOOOOOOOOOOOO kind and they have been helping me with this little problem.

Firstly, one Mama introduced me to Cordyceps and after some nagging, I eventually got some in my kitchen and boy, does it help. It really, really does help and I recommend that anyone with lung problems and asthma should drink cordyceps soup or take cordyceps in some form or other at least once a week. I’m trying to do that now but as we have no maid, I’m trying to keep dinners simple. And to me Western dishes are more simple. So the Chinese Cordycep soup gets forced to come out once a week.

Another Mama, my God…..she totally blew my mind away when she sent over a tin of Godiva Hot Chocolate to my husband’s office. And as it is my only tin (and something too expensive to buy!) I have been using it very sparingly and only in emergency cases!! And that is when I am really, really, REALLY, well and truly stressed and have had an extremely rough day. You know those days, right? Yup. Those days? I make myself a gorgeous, gorgeous, CHOCOLATY mug of Godiva (my fu*king best buddy, man) and my nerves resolve into instant calm. I kid you not.

Thank you, my friends. THANK YOU.

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.