Blossom in Bliss– Healing for Spiritual Seekers
In total honesty and transparency, I’m a little scared to share the video below. For some reason, making this video public and sharing it with you and well, with everybody (including all the haters), feels waaaaay scarier than everything I had to do make the video. I created, memorized and delivered a TedX talk.
I want you to take a minute to imagine this. Imagine that you pack up your worries into a suitcase. See yourself adding each worry into the case and closing it. Take your suitcase of worry to the airport with you and check it in. As the plane begins take off, you realize that your
Did you know your Mom guilt is like ear wax? No? You didn’t know that. Okay let me explain. According to the docs who know over at The American Academy of Otolaryngology,“Cerumen or earwax is healthy in normal amounts and serves as a self-cleaning agent with protective, lubricating, and antibacterial properties.” Did you know earwax
When I ask moms what their biggest challenges have been in the first year of their child’s life, their answers usually include worry or guilt or both. These two topics are so common in every day conversation that I have taken to calling them the Misery Twins. The existence of worry and guilt in our lives
Last time I wrote about the pleasant surprise I got after giving birth: adrenaline! That blog was all about how helpful adrenaline is. Read the full blog here. It’s got good stuff! This time I want to talk about what to do when the adrenaline wears off. Uh oh! All that extra energy is gone and
If you are pregnant for the first time and a little worried about what to expect in those first couple months of your newborn baby’s life, I have good news for you! You will have help: a little something called Adrenaline. I totally had no idea what would happen with a newborn but I did expect
When Arthur was about 6 months old, I signed up for a Mindfulness summit and I have been on an ongoing journey toward living a mindful motherhood ever since. What I learned about mindfulness really impacted my mind and helped me when I felt like I was breaking down, going crazy, becoming a horrible person.
Before Arthur was born, my husband and I had minimal fighting in our relationship. We did pretty well at talking about stuff as it came up and we never yelled. After Arthur it was a whooooole different story. It is absolutely, completely normal to have more conflict and tension in a relationship after a baby’s
One of the biggest turning points for me in my motherhood journey has been learning how to trust myself. While I still have huge moments of freak out, confusion or doubt, I now feel much more confident and peaceful about decisions I make as a mother. Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post about
Learning to trust yourself is a scary prospect. Especially as a new mother. Trusting yourself to make a good decision and committing to your decisions means that ultimately you are solely responsible for the results. There were so many moments as a new mother I was frozen in paralyzing indecision, confused and overwhelmed. All the
