4 tips for your family’s September reset with Zoe Blaskey

Zoe Blaskey is a transformational coach, author, podcaster and founder of Motherkind, a community empowering modern mothers to move from guilt, exhaustion and comparison into confidence, calm and authenticity. She is also an expert on navigating matrescence.

 

September has always felt more like New Year than actual New Year for me. I don’t know about you but on January 1st I am usually feeling exhausted from too many family gatherings, Christmas parties and complaints from my girls about “another boring walk.” So I have always done my goals, visions and plans in September. As I’m buying new uniforms and notebooks for my girls (one going into Year 6, one into Year 2) I am simultaneously thinking about what I want to achieve in the year ahead. 

1. Start with what you want

In September I harness that fresh notebook feeling and once the girls have gone back, I take a few hours for myself. I always start with the most important question in the world “What do I want?” I think about what I want in my business, my health, my relationships and experiences I want to have. Then I work backwards into specific goals under each of those areas, no more than three goals for each area and it’s very important they are specific. 

“I always start with the most important question in the world “What do I want?”

3. Make your goals specific

Vague goals never happen, so for example I would never write “get fitter” (what does that even mean?). Instead I would write down strength training twice a week, pilates once a week and 10k steps a day. That is a goal that can be measured, put in the diary and is therefore way more likely to actually happen. 

I also do this process with both my girls. I love showing them that being clear on your goals and working to make them happen is how you build an amazing life for yourself. Plus the absolute heartmelting cuteness of watching my six year old write “be kind” as her goal for the year is worth it alone (I daren’t tell her that isn’t specific enough). 

3. Prioritise health and wellbeing 

One of my biggest goals this year is my fitness. I started strength training in January 2026 and as cliche as it sounds, it has changed my life. I feel so much stronger not only physically but mentally too. I’ve found a group class I love and I go at least three times a week. It really helps that I have a group of mum friends I share lifts with so we keep each other accountable. I always drink a glass of my favourite Organic Protein + Superfood Powder after each session because I realised when I started lifting I wasn’t getting enough protein in my diet and it made such a difference to my recovery and muscle growth. 

For the girls, especially my eldest going into year 6 (and being my challenging eater, beige all the way with her) I am focusing on Omega 3 for brain health. They definitely do not eat enough oily fish, and Omega 3 is incredible for memory and concentration. It did take them a while to get used to taking the capsules (I tried hiding it in food at first, didn’t work) so now they both swallow them whole with water no problems. They also take (much more joyfully!) the Vitamin D gummies which taste incredible, even though they are very low in sugar (seems like some sort of magic to me, thank you Wild Nutrition). 

It makes me very happy to know they are getting the right amount of Vitamin D because it helps so much with their immune system. My mission every winter is to avoid the winter bugs and be very smug, avoiding the class colds. 

“My mission every winter is to avoid the winter bugs.”

4. Reset your home

I also love a home reset in September. I believe energetically you need to clear out the old to make room for the new, so out comes the binbags, groans from the girls and we clear the whole house of old things we don’t use anymore. I do a mix of Vinted for clothes, charity shop for toys and I have a 3 year old niece so I pass on a lot to her too. My eldest is a reading fiend (think 3-4 books a day…) so we also give old books to our local library which always feels incredible to do. There is also a site specifically to sell old books called World of Books where you simply scan the barcode, it gives you a price and you send it off (think Vinted for books but even easier). 

“Energetically, you need to clear out the old to make room for the new.”

My advice for any clear out would be not to tackle it all at once, choose one small area a day in the month of September which keeps it manageable. Nothing worse than pulling all the kids' clothes out onto the floor then losing the will to live half way through. So tackle one drawer, one cupboard, one area at a time. 

 

This September I hope you press the reset button, get clear on your goals and rejoice whilst we still get to do the school run in a t-shirt. 

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