People are always telling busy moms that they need to take time for themselves. Honestly though, who has the time? We are busy with life and life doesn’t have built in self-care breaks. Taking time for yourself is important though so how do we find the balance? As busy moms, we do have the ability to incorporate our children into our self-care routines. We are with them ALL THE TIME so it makes more sense to include them instead of trying to build in time when we can exclude them. While I do love my alone time, I also...
People are always telling busy moms that they need to take time for themselves. Honestly though, who has the time? We are busy with life and life doesn’t have built in self-care breaks. Taking time for yourself is important though so how do we find the balance? As busy moms, we do have the ability to incorporate our children into our self-care routines. We are with them ALL THE TIME so it makes more sense to include them instead of trying to build in time when we can exclude them. While I do love my alone time, I also...
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April 26, 2018
Easy Self Care Ideas for Moms Who Like to Read
Looking for Easy Self Care Ideas? Taking care of your own emotional well-being seems so simple. Then you become a mom. Your time is no longer your own and you find yourself lost when you do have moments of solitude. I’m fairly certain that in the moments of quiet you, like most all moms, reach for your phone. Check Instagram. Check Facebook and emails. But really, shouldn’t you be spending that time doing something FOR yourself? Something that benefits YOU? Something that YOU enjoy? Of course, you should. While it sounds like such an easy thing to do, its...
Always on the lookout for ways to make your home feel more serene and calm? You’ve tried lightening it up with textiles and paint. You’ve added some special fragrances. But still, something is missing. Have you missed bringing a bit of nature into your design? Perhaps it’s time to start bringing in a few houseplants for anxiety. This post may contain affiliate links. This just means if you make a purchase using a link I provide that I may receive compensation. This is no way changes the price for you and I only recommend products or services I truly...
Anger and Anxiety Punishing others for a perceived wrongdoing feels good, doesn’t it? It gives us a feeling of power and control over someone who hurt us. We feel that being mad or upset is a useless emotion and punishing that person gives us a purpose. A way to deal with and process those negative emotions. A way to deal with anger. What we don’t realize is all we are doing is harming ourselves. We are holding on so tightly to those negative emotions. But the person who harmed us doesn’t have to continue to feel any of it....
December 8, 2017
When the Holiday Season is Hard to Handle
As a mom, some days are just hard. Most days have hard moments, but sometimes it feels like the whole day is filled with the hard moments. It’s easy to let yourself fall into the pit of self-loathing,or self-pity when you have one of these days. Like every insecurity that you ever have just bursts forth and somehow it becomes who you think you really are. It’s important to fight that self-doubt, loathing and pity. It’s important to know that these are lies. That these insecurities aren’t who you are, ever have been or ever will be. BUT sometimes...
How are you, mama? Feeling like you are in a rut? Underappreciated? Tired? Devalued? Do you have the mommy blues? I think its pretty common for stay-at-home moms to feel this way. I also think there are several contributing factors going on here. A few we can control and a few we can’t. As for the ones that we can control, lets do that. Lets take control of our own happiness and stop waiting for things to magically get better. First lets talk about the three main things that are most likely contributing to our less-than or “mommy blues”...
September 4, 2017
7 thoughtful ways to help a family fighing pediatric cancer
Cancer is a scary word that no one likes to talk about yet everyone is affected by it. Pediatric cancer seems like one of the ones that no one EVER wants to talk about because it’s probably the saddest cancer of them all. A St. Jude commercial comes on and you immediately start to tear up at the smiling little bald-headed children and babies. Then the commercial goes off and you go about your day without another thought because surely your kids could never get cancer. It’s really not that rare guys. One in 300ish (it’s actually like 285)...
July 6, 2017
7 Effective Ways to Fight Mom Anxiety and Fear
Mom anxiety creeps up on you like an invisible beast, cutting off rational thought, normal body functions and altering your personality. It is one of the hardest things I have ever battled. The battle isn’t over for me and it probably wont ever be over for you either. I might be okay with labeling myself as anxious but I certainly don’t want to wake up every day and do nothing about it. We can’t make it go away but I can show you how to limit its effects on you. Anxiety does not have to define us. Mom anxiety...
June 26, 2017
Stop Calling it “Self-Care”
**Disclosure** This is MY blog. These are my OPINIONS. I am not judging any mom in any way. I have NOT had an easy road in motherhood. Read my bio before you leave a nasty comment about how I just don’t understand how hard you have it. I am not bashing you if you practice self-care. I am just simply saying that self-care may NOT be the answer to your problem if you are not prioritizing taking care of yourself at all. I am also just saying that as moms we already have a LOT on our plates and...
This post may contain affiliate links. See my full disclosure policy here. We went to my parents house recently. It was a beautiful day, the kids were excited about swimming in the community pool. ( We purposely bought a house without a pool because it freaks me out way too much to have little ones with such easy access to a pool. ) We head over in our bathing suits only to discover the pool was closed. Closed??? Apparently there was an “incident” and it would take 24 hours for the pool to be clean enough to swim in. Of...
