How to Thrive as a Busy Mom

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed as a parent. Some days are easier than others. Follow my simple advice and you will go to sleep saying “I’ve got this!” every night!

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Thrive. This can sometimes be a loaded word in a sense, I know, but I chose that word for a reason. The days are long. The nights are short. We count our blessings, but sometimes feel like maybe we aren’t living up to our full potential. Now, I know that we are all busy moms, learning as we go and doing our best every single day, however, that doesn’t always mean that we feel our best. We may have crossed everything off of our lengthy to-do lists, but we actually feel like we are thriving at this whole motherhood thing? I think this is something that we have to feel inside.

I experience certain days that I refer to as my “supermom days.” These are the days where I just get so much accomplished that I seriously go to sleep feeling like a complete badass because I felt like at that moment I went above and beyond my potential. And then I measure all of my days against those days. The bad days. The good days. The in-between days. And I’ve learned that instead of motivating me to do better, I come out mostly feeling pretty crappy about myself. Because of this, I’ve started to shift my mindset a little bit to think about the word thrive in the most positive sense and instead of using it as a unit of measurement, thrive is a state of mind that is a part of my every day.

So if you clicked to read this post because you are feeling a little bit lost in motherhood, you aren’t going to find a lengthy list of tips here today, because I know this message is even bigger than that. It’s sort of like choosing a word of the year for yourself at the beginning of a new year, but I think that it should be part of us every single day.

Why? Because having a healthy mindset is just as important as being physically active. All of these things come together to help us live the healthiest life we can possibly live and I think it’s really important to have an ongoing dialogue about physical, mental, and nutritional health – we need all of them working together. This is where Health Warrior comes in for me. While I have to be more consciously aware of making sure my mental and physical health are in check, I can have things like my favorite Health Warrior Mug Muffins handy, and know that I’m getting what I need to fuel my body in the healthiest way possible. But they make is so easy for me.

Chris recently started a new job with pretty grueling hours. Because of this, I’m on my own with the kids most days, outnumbered by a sassy toddler and extremely opinionated 10-year-old. The mornings are challenging to get Branden out of the door, and then after he leaves I have a mountain of work to and somehow need to clean, workout, work, and give Blake so much attention in between. I’ve made the mistake in the past of measuring my thriving moments by how many things I get crossed off my to-do list, but one recent moment changed that.

I was working on the computer for what seemed nonstop and I was completely sucked into the project I was working on. Blake was acting out and getting into things around us because I was giving her very little attention. But I kept pushing myself forward. Finally, Blake came over and pushing the laptop closed, took my hand, and lead me to the other room so that I could play kitchen with her. I realized at that moment that things needed to change on my end.

I realized that I’m thriving just as much as a person, as a business owner, and as a mom, whenever I’m giving the areas in my life that need the most attention, the most attention. In those moments I knew that I didn’t need to measure my days by grand gestures or getting big projects done at lightning speed. I thrived because I stopped and slowed down to be a mom, and our kids need nothing more than that.

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Mama, I hope that this helps you shift your mindset a bit, too. It was a wakeup call for me to realize that I was looking at things in a way that was just stressing me out. I was working too much and spreading myself too thin and these are things that we honestly don’t need to put ourselves through.

XOXO,

Allison