Mindful Awareness for Parents
When we parent with gratitude, we don’t ignore the hard stuff; we simply choose to see the good alongside it. Over time, this duality creates a resilient, mindful approach to life—one where gratitude becomes a trait, not just a fleeting state.
Hope as Your Anchor: Navigating Modern Parenthood with Optimism
Exploring the transformative power of pragmatic hope and gratitude, this post delves into making modern parenthood a more fulfilling and manageable journey with simple practices you can add to your existing routine.
#MomLife Unfiltered: 5 Essential Ways to Keep It Real
Gratitude serves as a foundation for nurturing connections with other parents and broadening our perspective. It empowers us to embrace our parenting mishaps as integral parts of our journeys, ensuring they do not overshadow our achievements.
Finding the Energy: Balance Amidst the Chaos
Discover how mindfulness can help you streamline the chaos. Unlock the power of energy management, to achieve some sort of balance.
How to Stay Grounded Amidst Parenting Chaos
Equanimity, a word not often heard in everyday conversation, is simply learning the skills of emotional groundedness and non-reactivity. Cultivating equanimity can be a transformative practice in the whirlwind of motherhood and its overwhelming moments.
Blank Memories: Embracing Unforgettable Moments
OK, just how do Post-Concert Amnesia and Motherhood relate and how can we be more present for big moments in life? I’m sure you can guess…
Mindful Parenting: Finding Balance in Self-Care
Meditation is not mandatory but it can be a simple form of self-reflection that can lead to customized self-care. Notice your emotions and moods, allowing you to attend to your needs before burnout or stress hits. By cultivating mindfulness, you can discover the choices available to you and find insights.
How Can I Grow as Mother?
A fresh take on motherhood can follow these steps reflecting, remembering, and reorientating, which will lead to new growth.
New Year, Same Me
Start where you are with what you have. What are your mindset goals for 2023? And what are the obstacles that get in the way of well-being and embracing the “same you” as you have always been? We will talk about all these things while hopefully discovering new things about ourselves that don’t come from “fixing” a thing about our motherhood or who we really are at our cores.
Navigating the Inner Mom Dialogue
Gratitude does not function in a vacuum, so when we are ready to look at our mistakes, we must cultivate a gentle voice to allow these growth opportunities to teach us what we need to learn without shame. Read more about your Loving Anchor here.
Gratitude Practice: Stop Signs
I do know from experience that noticing our body states, acknowledging when things are difficult, and labeling our emotions all contribute to becoming O.K. with making mistakes and skipping the Mom Guild on our way to a more grounded and healthy life. Use Stop Signs to make sure this happens on a daily basis!
Gratitude Practice: Love and Kindness Body Scan
How can we use our gratitude practice to teach ourselves to notice the emotions stored in our bodies? Give this simple parenting with gratitude practice a try!
Gratitude Will Save Your Motherhood
Inside each one of these blog posts, I do hope you find something that resonates with you and helps you to feel like a GoodAF mom - because you are! Let’s get into parenting with gratitude.
Building Blocks to Parenting with Gratitude™
These are the building blocks of what I call ‘Parenting with Gratitude’. We don’t need to clean the slate, only amplify what is already here and true, rescue our minds from habitual thoughts and reactions and connect with the humans around us.
How to Avoid Toxic Positivity while Remaining Grateful
How can we remain grateful while also staying away from toxic positivity?
Is it bad to compare myself to other moms?
It’s when we look outside ourselves for affirmation or confirmation that’s when we get into trouble. What can we do to quiet the comparing mind?
Yes, you can meditate
Yes, you can meditate — and parent, and work, and sleep and breather and pay the bills…and it’s not called “doing it all” it’s simple and free self-care.
Parenting with Intention
My intention to be happy is stronger than my intention for perfection ever was because I look for the good in every day and I reflect on what went right and not on what went wrong.