Mother’s Day thoughts for you
This one is for the mothers...
Today I want to honor every single way in which you have chosen to let motherhood change you.
To humble you.
To embolden you.
To see your wounds and accept your shortcomings.
To be willing to know your potential.
To receive care and encouragement.
To get a little bit more clear on what you need and what you value.
To notice what isn’t fair, and to complain.
To want better for yourself.
To remember that you are not the problem.
To choose yourself.
To know that you matter.
To look back with honesty upon the mothering you received.
To become a version of you that can only exist because of loving your children.
What would you add?
If today you are wanting meaningful recognition for how hard you try. That makes sense.
If today the idea of recognizing your own mother is joyful, painful, both, or anything in between. That makes sense.
Today is not just another day. It is a day that makes us stop and notice.
And if in that moment of stopping to notice, you feel like nobody gets it; remember that there are so many of us who do.
So many mothers, trying to give what they didn’t get. Healing themselves. Learning the tools with their head, that should have been learned by their hearts growing up. Living into new ways of being, with little to no points of reference for what healthy family dynamics actually feel like. Questioning themselves and feeling ill-equipped for the inevitable scares and hurts that life decides to throw out of nowhere. Not knowing all the answers and having no guarantees.
And yet, as time goes by, tasting the ever larger and more abundant doses of freedom and joy that healing while parenting brings.
I want to wish you a Mother's Day day where you remember how magnificent your work is. How much I admire you. And that you are never alone in this.
In the case of those of you who bring me your stories, struggles and victories in the community and coaching spaces–what an absolute honor and privilege it is to walk alongside you.
These are my heartfelt Mother’s Day wishes for you.
Thank you so much for being here, for what you do, and for letting me be a part of it.