(Don't) Be Afraid to Try
When we first had the idea of creating an app for Mamas I was ecstatic. To be able to build something for my friends that give them a daily encouragement was an exciting idea. Plus I got to make something that was going to benefit my own self-practice - and I would be forced to start practicing what I preach. But then we started talking about what it takes, and since neither Sahra nor I had $20,000 lying around to build an app, we would have to make it ourselves. Tell me to build something and I am all in. But ask me to market it, promote it, and share it with my people and I basically crumble into a ball of fear on the floor.
There is something about showing my work to others, work that is most likely not perfect has glitches, and will continually need to be updated, that causes me to have twitchy eyelids, a nervous tummy, and just general anxiety in my body. All of a sudden I feel like I need to take a nap… far far away. So when I hear “don’t be afraid to try” I laugh at first - because it sounds so simple. But damn it’s hard.
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Reconnecting With Yourself
You are a mama. And you are a woman, a friend, a sister, a wife, a warrior. You are a mama and so much more. Here are 5 ideas of how to reconnect with yourself while navigating your motherhood journey.
1. Go see a concert, play or movie. If you love live music take a night off and go see a show. Excited for a new movie that is coming out? Hire a babysitter and make it a date night.
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Be kind to others. Be kind to yourself.
Maybe our parents, our teachers, our friends assumed that being kind to ourselves was a given. That we would just be.
Walking through the world with a smile on my face and an internal whisper that says, I am not enough, I failed, or I should have done better. Perfection was always just out of reach. The perfection that everyone else was seemingly able to achieve, except for me.
No matter how hard I tried I just kept coming back to, I am not enough, I failed, or I should have done better.
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Do What Works For You
It is so easy to get caught up in the parenting advice, the shoulds and the comparison of motherhood. Aside from worrying about the progress of our children on every percentage scale and questionnaire from pediatricians and teachers, we also spend way too much time trying to keep up with what we think motherhood "looks like".
We love what blogger Lisa Schmidt has to say in a recent Huff Post article about comparing ourselves to other mothers...
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Confidence
This beautiful little girl teaches me so much. She is full of joy and sassy through and through. She lives in the moment, never looking too far forward or back. She never covers her face when she cries or apologizes for laughing too loud.
Confidence is magic, it is beautiful and I am in awe of this light being we get to love through this world. I am grateful everyday to be her mama and learn more from her than any other adventure of my life. Maybe that is the best part of being a mama, always learning and loving and always playing big. Because now I cannot play small, I want to be an example for my daughter to show her how to take risks, how to jump in with both feet.
We will learn from one another.
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Magic
you are a mama of moon children, magic maker, soul soother and lover of life. You bring light into this world and deserve the sun, the moon, and the stars.
you are a moon child, an earth mother, and everything in between.
you deserve love, faith, beauty, kindness, and you never have to settle for less simply because you are you and that makes you deserving.
you make this world beautiful.
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