Wellness In Mind

FORMER MODEL MEGAN GALE OPENS UP TO PAUL EWART ABOUT MOTHERHOOD, MINDFULNESS AND HOW LOSS HAS TAUGHT HER TO LIVE HER MOST MEANINGFUL LIFE.

- Paul Ewart

While she’s walked down runways from Paris to Milan decked out in priceless couture, and has shared big screen time with Hollywood stars such as Russell Crowe and Charlize Theron, it was becoming a mum that prompted Megan Gale to transform the way she lives her life.

“The nature of my old job was deadlines,” the 44-year-old tells Good Health. “You know, ‘quick, we need to get the shot because the light goes!’, ‘quick, change your outfit and get back on the catwalk!’, It was ‘go, go, go’ all the time. I became programmed and conditioned to think that it was normal. That would then drip-feed into my private life, so even when I wasn’t working, I’d be racing around. I’d only stop when I was burnt out.

“Becoming a mum has changed it all. It’s made me slow down and re-prioritise what’s important. Things I used to get upset about, I don’t get upset about any more. Your kids are so special and so precious, you don’t want to waste time worrying about things that don’t matter, or worrying about things that you have no control over.”

Precious moments

Of course, motherhood changes most women, but in Megan’s case giving birth to son River, now five, and daughter Rosie, almost two, has also resulted in a brand-new career. Launched in May this year, Mindful Life is Megan’s new passion project – a lifestyle brand that aims ‘to help people lead a more mindful and present life’. It’s a revelation she herself discovered after the birth of her first child. “I had other parents coming up to me when I was with my newborn son, saying ‘What a precious time; you should savour it’. Telling me they wished they could go back and relive time with their kids. It started to resonate with me.