The Pressure To Have It All Together
Mama, please open up. Find that safe person to share you deepest struggles with. You need them. We need each other. We can’t do it all, so let’s just try to do it together.
Mama, please open up. Find that safe person to share you deepest struggles with. You need them. We need each other. We can’t do it all, so let’s just try to do it together.
No really, you are. Do you ever question if you are doing a “good enough” job parenting? I ask myself this all the time. Like too often. So much so that I can convince myself that I’m not doing a good job. I know, it’s ridiculous. Really though, the fact that I am even wondering…
Everyone struggles with guilt. This feeling that we should have done something a different way. Made a different choice. Acted in a kinder way. Said it a different way. Or should have not said anything at all. Guilt. Then there is this guilt when we think… Did my child have too much screen time today?…
Words are powerful. Of course you recognize the old saying… Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Really, that could not be more untrue. Sticks and stones hurt – for a short time. But those wounds usually heal. Words though – that hurt can last a lifetime. Words can…
The other morning, I had hit my point and needed a nap. I needed to close my eyes for just a few minutes, and give my body a break. I allowed Mazy to do about everything I told myself I WOULDN’T allow as a parent before I had a child, but oh, the things I…
In the Midwest, winter=staying home more often, doesn’t it? Do you find that in your life as well? But in a way, it’s maybe not all half bad! It is so easy to rush through life, going from this to that, leaving us to wonder where the time has gone? My goal in parenting is…