If you are here, then you understand the Oxygen-Mask-Theory of motherhood. What’s good for you is good for your baby, is good for your children, is good for your partner and ultimately good for your family. Take this moment to celebrate yourself for being here and for what you just accomplished.
With every 8-weeks session, I’ve gained something I needed and lost something I didn’t.
The first session, I gained my feeling of autonomy; I found myself again outside of being a mother and I lost the feelings of guilt associated with needing something else besides my children.
At this point in our pandemic playbook, we’ve all been left alone in our heads for far too long. With literally nowhere to go and no place to hide, we can either use our energy to fight against the discomfort of looking inward or utilize this as an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.
Glennon Doyle says, ”Selfless women make for an efficient society but not a beautiful, true, or just one. When women lose themselves the world loses their way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world's expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.”
During my first Stroller Strides class, with a toddler and newborn in tow, I thought to myself, “Look at this--I am doing something for me, while still mothering them.”
Then I looked up at Emily. She was running a business, while literally running with her children. “Yes,” I thought, “Look at us.”
Imagine if you will, that our experience with Fit4Mom has been one epic race. One we entered into completely naïve and unassuming—like motherhood, we thought we knew, when really we had no idea.
When we step on the elevator and take ourselves all the way down to the bottom. The ride down itself, feels so familiar, wallowing has become what feels normal.
It’s such a beautiful thought.
Imagining those we love behind us; channeling their strength, just knowing that the love they carry for us, will help to carry us through.
If you are here, then you understand the Oxygen-Mask-Theory of motherhood. What’s good for you is good for your baby, is good for your children, is good for your partner and ultimately good for your family. Take this moment to celebrate yourself for being here and for what you just accomplished.
With every 8-weeks session, I’ve gained something I needed and lost something I didn’t.
The first session, I gained my feeling of autonomy; I found myself again outside of being a mother and I lost the feelings of guilt associated with needing something else besides my children.
It’s time we looked at self-care not as selfish, but as a preventative measure.
At this point in our pandemic playbook, we’ve all been left alone in our heads for far too long. With literally nowhere to go and no place to hide, we can either use our energy to fight against the discomfort of looking inward or utilize this as an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.
This year, we cannot celebrate the holidays in a way that feels familiar.
How easy it is to only focus on the negative, on this unrelenting year of loss.
But what if we break things down into similar parts, so we can begin to recognize the things that still remain.
During my first Stroller Strides class, with a toddler and newborn in tow, I thought to myself, “Look at this--I am doing something for me, while still mothering them.”
Then I looked up at Emily. She was running a business, while literally running with her children. “Yes,” I thought, “Look at us.”
After we’ve voted, remember that what comes afterwards matters too.
We no longer have control over the outcome, all that will be, will be.
Imagine if you will, that our experience with Fit4Mom has been one epic race. One we entered into completely naïve and unassuming—like motherhood, we thought we knew, when really we had no idea.
I wonder if today we could all spend more time in our hearts and less time in heads.
We have the stuff within us that has created life, so we know a little something about strength.
When we step on the elevator and take ourselves all the way down to the bottom. The ride down itself, feels so familiar, wallowing has become what feels normal.
But stop.
Let’s go up.