Beautiful and thought provoking nothing less than anticipated from a deep thinker - to mother myself is something I haven’t come to terms with until with my second baby, when I was forced to tell myself that you can take a break, breathe a moment, if it means you leave everything in chaos in the house and clients wait an extra day. It’s …
Beautiful and thought provoking nothing less than anticipated from a deep thinker - to mother myself is something I haven’t come to terms with until with my second baby, when I was forced to tell myself that you can take a break, breathe a moment, if it means you leave everything in chaos in the house and clients wait an extra day. It’s ok. I’ve always been a hard worker and so to allow myself to take a break (can sometimes mean to try and nap with my children, another to just decide to NOt work at night but watch something non-intellectual on YouTube or simply do nothing in particular at all has been enormous
Elin, thank you! I’ve come to realise that mothering ourselves looks so different. Mothering myself is sometimes hyper focusing on something that draws me away from my motherhood and looks like burn out to others. Other times it looks like rest from work!
I love the way you talk about non intellectual YouTube stuff. And being non productive. Hard workers are challenged by inactivity 🤣😉
Loool you’re so right, non-work stuff are challenging!! I felt like I did something wrong when I had to fight to learn to do nothing… it doesn’t fill my cup as much though as actually working on something (which as you say, from the outside looks like I’m always on burnout mode and all my life I’ve been told I need to chill…), when I engage in nothing activities it’s mostly out of sleep deprivation and simply no other choice lol 😆 I’m so thankful we crossed each others path so I feel less alone in my craziness 💞💞
Beautiful and thought provoking nothing less than anticipated from a deep thinker - to mother myself is something I haven’t come to terms with until with my second baby, when I was forced to tell myself that you can take a break, breathe a moment, if it means you leave everything in chaos in the house and clients wait an extra day. It’s ok. I’ve always been a hard worker and so to allow myself to take a break (can sometimes mean to try and nap with my children, another to just decide to NOt work at night but watch something non-intellectual on YouTube or simply do nothing in particular at all has been enormous
Elin, thank you! I’ve come to realise that mothering ourselves looks so different. Mothering myself is sometimes hyper focusing on something that draws me away from my motherhood and looks like burn out to others. Other times it looks like rest from work!
I love the way you talk about non intellectual YouTube stuff. And being non productive. Hard workers are challenged by inactivity 🤣😉
Loool you’re so right, non-work stuff are challenging!! I felt like I did something wrong when I had to fight to learn to do nothing… it doesn’t fill my cup as much though as actually working on something (which as you say, from the outside looks like I’m always on burnout mode and all my life I’ve been told I need to chill…), when I engage in nothing activities it’s mostly out of sleep deprivation and simply no other choice lol 😆 I’m so thankful we crossed each others path so I feel less alone in my craziness 💞💞
It's so much about our capacities. We know ourselves ;)
You're not alone my crazy friend!