Hello to you, the lovely person listening and welcome back everyone to your favourite podcast

Growing and Glowing with me, your host, Mrs Ellie Swift.

Oh, I've missed you so much.

This podcast is our safe space to delve into all things life learnings there may be

from spirituality, grief, friendship, motherhood and so much more to provide you with a friend

through what can be the very up and down journey that is growing and of course glowing

into the very best version of who you truly are.

D, D, D, D, goodness, guys. I have missed you so much. Welcome back. Thank you so much for tuning in.

It's a pleasure to be back. Honestly, I've really, really missed being online and chatting with you all and doing the podcast. It has been a hot minute. She's a mum of two.

I have two sons. I have two beautiful children and actually sat in this chair right now recording this podcast takes me

back to when I was last here and I was like oh I'm about to give birth when's it going to be

and it just all felt like so unknown like even though I'd done it once before it was like oh my

god this is like a whole new dynamic that I'm about to enter.

Like, looking at his nursery out of the corner of my eye in the next room, I just, I just remember really being in that, like, you know, and you can feel you're about to step into a new chapter

of life? You know you're about to step into a new era. That's where I was and it feels just

honestly harmonious to be sat right in the thick of the first two pages of that next chapter.

I've never been happier. Why are these bubbles, these bubbles of like, these pockets of the most

wonderful things that happen to in life? Like, my best, one of my best friends got proposed to

last night and she was like, oh my God, the engagement bubble is so real. And I was like,

honey, I remember it, babe. That was like the first bubble. I had the engagement bubble.

Then I had the newborn bubble for the first time. No, then I had the pregnant, finding out you're pregnant for the first time, the pregnancy bubble, then the newborn bubble, then the wedding bubble and then I went back into the newborn bubble again. I'm still, I feel like I'm just coming out of the newborn bubble now. I feel like when, when it's not your first, you have to kind of like jump back into reality a little bubble now. I feel like when it's not your first,

you have to kind of like jump back into reality a little bit quicker.

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