3 Ways to make YOU a Priority
Can we have a heart to heart here?
Are you a GIVER? Do you LOVE to love on everyone else and keep them happy?
As moms, it’s one of our many gifts: We instinctively know how to love and nurture SO big! You’d do anything for your family. The problem is the more you DO, the less you have to give.
You pack your day so full leaving little or no time for yourself which leads to feeling physically drained, emotionally exhausted and mentally ready to BURST from the pressure to DO MORE.
When you became a mom, I’m sure you didn’t sign a contract agreeing to neglect your basic needs for sleep, exercise, and sitting down for a meal. You weren’t told to forfeit your God-given talents and gifts and forget your priorities but somehow it happens anyways.
I’ve been right there with you. Whether it’s the pressure to prove ourselves great at balancing it all, to feel valued by our achievements, or from comparing ourselves to other moms who seem to do it with such ease, there’s pressure coming from all sides. DO MORE. HUSTLE HARDER. There’s no end to it, no finish line, just a steam roller pressing you forward.
I don’t know about you but living like that wasn’t doing me or my family a lick of good. I felt so stressed, always thinking I should be doing something else vs enjoying what’s in front of me. I went to bed exhausted yet feeling completely unaccomplished and would wake up with anxiety over how I’d DO better than yesterday. It was constant pressure and that, my sister, is a recipe for disaster.
Burnout is real so before you get there, do this for me.
Sit down. Take a deep breath. Tell yourself, you’re doing enough and let that settle into your chest.
They don’t need supermom, they need YOU; healthy, happy, alive and well.
When I chose to prioritize my emotional health and fitness over trying to be super mom, things stopped feeling so hard and being the loving mom and wife I always wanted to be wasn’t WORK.
3 Ways to Take Care of YOU:
Get Still. Even if it is only five minutes, those small deposits of solitude will reward you massively. Find times when it’s already quiet like first thing in the morning before the kids are up. Sit with your coffee/tea, close your eyes, feel grateful for a new day. Read, do a devotional, journal. Just let things be quiet and enjoy it.
Get dressed. Like all the way dressed. It’s amazing what putting on your favorite outfit and some make-up can do for your energy. It will not only boost your confidence, it’ll motivate you to be on your A-game (which you already are, now you’re dressed for it too!).
Value your health. What do you need in order to feel your best? Maybe it’s exercising regularly, drinking more water, getting to bed earlier, finding a healthy source of natural energy, getting curious about the root cause of your symptoms. Whatever strikes you, commit to doing ONE thing for a week. See how it goes and what you learn from your body. Then take the next small step.
You’re an amazing mom, wife, business owner, aspiring entrepreneur…all of it. You’re doing more than enough. Focus less on DOING more and do what matters to YOU- not everyone else- so you can enjoy the life you’re dreaming of living someday, TODAY. When else will you have the chance?
