24/01/2023
Welcome 🙏 2023 . . . Let’s hope it’s a good one! 2022 was the toughest year of my life and career.
Christmas 2021 and New Years 2022 I spent in Hospital with postpartum psychosis.
After a relatively quick recovery, I promptly returned to work and the runnings of business. After 6 good months of enjoying life, adoring our beautiful daughter and loving work, I hit a wall and ended up in a severe depression unable to function properly.
I struggled to sleep, I couldn’t cook or clean,
I struggled to get out of bed, let alone leave the house. This had a massive impact on my ability to run a business and to be a new mum. It massively affected my family, close friends and my amazing team of staff. Goldilocks started by accident in my home kitchen 10 years ago, and quickly grew legs and took over my life! It became my passion and my baby.
With no prior training in business or cooking, just a ridiculous love of food and sharing, you can imagine the first few years were a roller coaster and massive learning curve.
Ironically if I knew what I know now, I probably would never have started.
Sometimes it’s good to go into things unknowing, driven by enthusiasm, trust and an idea. However it often means we end up learning things the hard way or the long way. There have been many of these lessons.
I feel absolutely blessed that since the beginnings of Goldilocks back in 2012 we never once advertised for staff, and over the years have had the most amazing people come into the kitchen and join our team and family. Catering can be hard as it’s not always consistent and can go through insanely busy times and extremely quiet times, yet so often the same incredible people would come back year after year to work with us. We were not a conventional workplace or kitchen with job titles and set rolls. We were a team and a family.
Only just coming out the other side of this funk and starting to feel human again . . . *story continued in comments