Parenting & Relationships
Helping busy parents juggle all of the responsibilities and crazy days that come with raising AMAZING kids.
Parenting is amazing and fun…but oh, so exhausting.
Family time is the best.
Your most cherished role in this world gives you the title of mom or dad. You love being a parent and couldn’t imagine life any other way. In fact, sometimes you think back to a time before you had kids and think about all of the free time you had. I mean, seriously, what in the world did you do with ALL of that free time? Sleep, travel, REST…those were the days. You know you would never trade in this time now to go backwards. After all, being a parent is amazing and a job you love more than anything in the world.
Stress is okay, and normal.
Parenting is also the most stressful, trying, exhausting, pull your hair out time as well. I bet you never thought you’d find yourself hiding in the bathroom shoveling cookies into your mouth and downing your fourth cup of coffee, all while your house looks like it was hit by a tornado. Toys, and lots of them, are strewn across the floor. The same cartoon is on repeat for the umpteenth time that day, and your little one is crying at the bathroom door and wiggling their sweet and tiny little fingers under the door just begging for you to come out to play.
All you want is a few minutes of quiet time to de-stress and just be by yourself…without anyone touching you. Is that too much to ask? While you sit there thinking back to a time without the stress and responsibility of your littles, the guilt starts to creep in. You didn’t know that losing yourself was par for the course with this parenting thing.
You never stop caring for those you love.
Perhaps you are not only caring for your child or teen, but you are also caring for your aging parent as well. The feeling of being pulled in opposite directions is both stressful and exhausting. You need to be the parent your child needs, but you also need to be the caregiver that your parent needs. It’s an impossible situation, and one that can leave you feeling inadequate and heartbroken. How do you divide your time between those that mean the most to you? The inadequacy of feeling so much responsibility and time constraints start to overwhelm you, and the feelings of a broken heart follow shortly thereafter. You want to provide for your parent, just as they did for you, but the sadness of illness and aging can sometimes be too much to bear. Dividing your time between all of the needs in your family can feel impossible.
Newborns to teens just need love and not a perfect parent.
I have good news for you! It’s possible to find yourself again and still think that parenting is the best job in the world. Maybe you’re a single parent or perhaps you have a great spouse and support system. Either way, you are struggling. You’ve forgotten who you are and you constantly feel like the stress and anxiety of parenting isn’t getting any better. Maybe you are a stay-at-home parent who feels guilt for not working outside of the home. Boy, if anyone knew what your days looked like at home they would surely understand that raising littles…or teens, taking care of a home, and meeting the needs of everyone around you was just as much, if not more work, than a full-time job.
It’s time to find you again.
Finding time to identify who you are and your personal needs is the first step in getting back on track. Let me help you ease the “mom guilt” that creeps in. You really just may need some coping skills to help when all of the responsibility gets overwhelming.