What’s in Your Parenting Cup?
Tired of the overused “fill your cup” parenting advice? You don’t need to add more—you need to trust what’s already inside. Parenting will shake you, but what spills out isn’t about lack—it’s about noticing your strengths.
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 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.
Burnout and the Benefits of Gratitude
According to psychologists, burnout is a physiological and psychological state we can reach when the following things go off the rails: Sleep, Healthy Choices (whatever that means to you), Resources, and Support. A state means it’s temporary - which is a good thing, right? That’s our first step out of the tunnel. Perspective to see that even though everything is a mess and so heavy and demanding, it is temporary can help.
Being Grateful for What Sucks
Laundry, dishes, playroom messes — reframing the things that suck in our lives.
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.
Gratitude feels too Awkward...
Sure, sometimes you’re just not grateful. Let’s be honest, we have all been on the receiving end of a gift we weren’t totally excited about. Maybe one that is a little bit ridiculous, like a complicated puzzle for a 2-year-old, but we want to be nice, so we fawn gratefulness - but are we grateful?
Learning to Let Go of Resentment
This will sound weird, but Beyoncé helped me deal with my resentment. Specifically, the resentment around my partner not helping - after we had our first baby, sure, but even later once we had two, and they were much older. The resentment and indignation had built up - and bitterness had taken over my mind and thoughts.
Three Main Benefits of Parenting with Gratitude
You won’t want to miss this post because it will explain why gratitude is going to change your relationship with motherhood.
Gratitude: a Stepping Stone to a More Mindful Life
I am obsessed with gratitude because it has changed how I view the world. I grew up in New England, so I celebrated the negative. But that all changed…
Faith to Parent Differently (2.0)
Betting on a mindset shift to combat family trauma can feel like “not enough” but if you have faith you can use your intention to parent differently as the catalyst for so much change.
Did you Parent Differently this Weekend?
The negativity bias gets in the way of parenting differently, but gratitude can help with that!
Parenting in a Memento Mori World
We do not know when it will end or how, so while we are here, we must cherish the moments that enrich and fulfill and do everything we can to protect those we love.
Choose Yourself First - It's Not that Simple.
A choose yourself mindset does not mean to be selfish. It means to think through big decisions and remember that your opinion matters most.
The Struggle is Real
What is “benefit finding” and how does it work for my parenting life?