
HELPING STRESSED DADS BALANCE WORK AND FATHERHOOD
7 years on... get the help you need
The easiest thing to do is NOT talk about how you feel, to bottle it up. But that doesn’t help anyone.
How often do you find yourself using these phrases when your talking to yourself?
It's time to man up.
Take it on the chin.
Be committed.
Be strong.
Do what you say you'll do.
I think we all do at some stage.
I know you want to provide your family with everything they need - opportunities, experiences & comfort. But it's easy to be torn in two directions. Pulled in 2 directions by work and family life.
I know you wouldn't be here if you didn't want to make changes to your work life balance.
But if you are being honest with yourself, do you commit more to work and your boss than you do to your family?
When your work life balance is causing stress and a strain on your relationships, the easiest thing to do is to get your head down and work even harder.
But it takes real balls to do something about it.
To actually talk to someone
To open up a bit.
To admit to yourself that you need some help.
It's the reason there's a male health crisis in this country. We aren't very good at getting the help that can make a difference.
** 7 years ago yesterday, my friend Paul Burke, overcome with grief after the sudden loss of his 1 year old son, took his own life. He left a wife and 2 other young children behind. All because he didn't get the support he needed when he needed it.
Now, I'm not for one minute suggesting that any of the work life balance struggles we face are in any way comparable to what Burkey faced, but the pattern of Dads struggling on silently is real.
I can't give you the answer as to what is right for YOU and your FAMILY. It's very personal to you and you have to own the solution for yourself.
However, I know all about what it takes to manage your work life balance....
My wife routinely gets home at 11.30pm and leaves again for work at 7.30am. She's being doing that since September. Before that she'd get home at 8pm - which hardly counts as 'great' but at least it's before our children go to bed.
How do you survive that?
It takes effort and clarity of thought and a plan.
> The 3 minute video below reveals 3 things you need to be doing before you can truly make progress fixing your work life balance.
Need more inspiration? try these stories.
It's time to be a real man.
GQ magazine found that the #1 aspect of modern masculinity, identified by 66% of Men was "being a present father".
Ian Dinwiddy, Founder
Recent content
Blog Categories
Archive
- June 2025
- March 2025
- October 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- January 2024
- September 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- December 2022
- June 2022
- January 2022
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- March 2018
- June 2017