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Category: Mom Life

The First six months of parenting

Life The First six months of parenting 12 September 2022

My Postpartum experience

Mom Life My Postpartum experience 9 May 2022

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From one tired mama to another tired mama, please

From one tired mama to another tired mama, please listen to me.

You are enough, and you are doing enough. Always remember that you are exactly the mama your children need. I know that raising little humans is hard, and some days will seem impossible, but just look at the little ladies and gentlemen they are growing up to be. You are equipped with the strength, patience, kindness, and gentleness you need. And if you are currently in a season of struggle, take a moment to close your eyes, to breathe, and to pause for a second. Try to shift your mindset to focus on the good and bury the bad underneath the blessings.

Say it aloud,
I am enough.

My little man, my mama's boy, my co-sleeper, my pr

My little man, my mama's boy, my co-sleeper, my pride and joy. Watching you grow and learn is my favourite thing to do.

Mom guilt. It eats me up. I scroll through this ap

Mom guilt. It eats me up. I scroll through this app and see so many mamas teaching their children with fun games and activities, looking perfect and put-together. I see how interactive they are with their kids, how patient and kind their tone is when they speak, and I wonder, why can't I be like that?

Motherhood is harder than I had anticipated. In this past month alone I have found myself entirely broken down and beaten more often than I want to admit. There were countless tear-filled days of complete anger, guilt, and frustration. And when I lose my temper after my patience is tested, I feel like a complete failure. I have to humble myself, get down to my knees, and tell my son that "I am sorry, mommy should not have yelled".

Far too often, I beat myself up thinking about everything I should be. I should be kind and gentle. I should be understanding. I should be eager to teach and even more eager to learn.

And I know I'm not alone with these thoughts, and maybe it's time to take a step back and give ourselves grace. We mamas fed and nourished and cared for and loved on our familys today. We did that. And those images on social media? They are a glimpse of someone's day. We have to remind ourselves that behind the pretty photos their life probably looks much like ours.

soaking up every moment I can.

soaking up every moment I can.

As we grow up, we learn how to deal with everythin

As we grow up, we learn how to deal with everything: how to control our anger, how to cope with our anxieties, how to overcome our fears, how to stop worrying, and how to hide our sadness in a way. In the midst of all of these emotions, instagram has become a tool to mask our flaws. While it used to be a fun place back in the days, it has become nothing more but a highlight reel where people tend to only share their “positive or self-enhancing news“. Of course, in a broad sense, even the least candid of photos is real, however contrived. But even the most thorough of instagram profiles are just a snippet of someone‘s reality. Countless moments, good or bad, are inevitably missing from it because it is not possible to share one‘s life from all angles at all times. Yet still, we do have a choice to share the mundane, the ugly, and the sad parts of our lives, but who does it?

We constantly judge our worth by our shade, our clothing size, or in the number of followers, likes and comments we get - and I‘ve been guilty of that as well. If I notice that my average post reach is getting lower, I start obsessing, overthinking and overanalyzing everything I had done 'wrong'. My thoughts spiral out of control, I get anxious, depressed, and feel like I am not doing enough, saying enough, or to the core - being enough.

As a people pleaser and deep empath, I worry about other people’s feelings whenever I share my content. These days, I am scared to openly discuss my deepest thoughts, being frightened it might trigger some. The same comes down to unfollowing people. But to be completely honest, I 'need' to limit the content I receive, this much information, that many hightlight reels - back to back to back. Whenever I scroll through instagram, I feel like I‘m mentally stretched thin, does that make sense?

So, I don‘t know who needs to hear this, but you were never intended to have access to thousands of people‘s lives at your fingertips. Maybe it‘s time we all do some spring cleaning in our following list - and it doesn‘t have to mean anything personal. Let‘s normalize and prioritize our mental health, and how it relates to this space.

summer days with my little munchkin.

summer days with my little munchkin.

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