Harriet Shearsmith is an accredited empowerment and life coach, trainee therapist, best-selling author and content creator of over 10 years. She specialises in working with clients who have experienced childhood trauma and are navigating estrangement or toxic family relationships. Harriet is an award-winning blogger and writer of Unfollowing Mum (Nov.2024) and Mummin’ It (2021), and has written for and been featured in publications like Happiful Mag, Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, Daily Express, Metro, Internet Matters and more.

Harriet is also an award-winning blogger, content creator behind @unfollowing_mum and @harrietshearsmith and podcaster with over 250,000 social media followers and 100,000 downloads. Living with her family in rural North Yorkshire, she shares daily life as a busy mum of 3 and coach.

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Talking to kids about estrangement.

Talking to kids about estrangement.

One of the things I get asked about the most on instagram when I talk about my decision to cut my mum out of my life last year is “how do you talk to your kids about the fact that they don’t have contact with their Grandma?”

“Our journey as parents begins in our own nursery, so we need to take care of that child first.”

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”