“If you don’t have 10 minutes, you don’t have a life”
-Tony Robbins
Easy for Tony Robbins to say, he’s not a mother … or a woman 🙂
Seriously though, it is sometimes challenging for a mother or a woman to find even 10 minutes to herself. Culture tells us that it is selfish for us to take care of ourselves. That taking care of ourselves takes away from our children …. And God forbid, if we are thriving … then we must be depriving our children somehow. We should be doing more, being more.
If you don’t read any further, please consider ONE THING: that the BEST thing you can do for your child is to THRIVE. When a child sees their mother THRIVING they receive the message that this is possible for them in their life as well.
What must mothers (and women) do to thrive? We must decide that our BEING is more important than our DOING. What do I mean by this?
The demands of motherhood won’t change. We’ll be making dinner, doing laundry, bath time, bed time, changing diapers, driving carpool, and many mothers work outside of the house as well. However, the BEING that we BRING to the tasks of motherhood will change DRAMATICALLY when we DECIDE THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN FILLING OUR OWN TANKS FIRST.
I PROMISE you that when you give yourself permission to fill your own tank, you ENRICH the life of your child. I PROMISE YOU.
Where to start? If you do only one thing, MEDITATE! Even if your children are crawling all over your legs and asking when you’re going to be done. If you take those 10 minutes that Tony Robbins was speaking of, your children will benefit.
And if meditation’s not your thing, find something that is. Call another mom friend to connect, take a walk around your neighborhood, daydream, paint, play some music … do something to connect to your Spirit today.
But if meditation is in any way calling to you, I’m teaching a MEDITATION FOR MOTHERS 3 MONTH INTENSIVE and I’d LOVE for you to join us. Mothers can feel so alone, so we’re gathering a tribe of mothers from all corners of planet earth to give ourselves permission to be GREAT for our children.
https://courses.suzilula.com/p/meditationformothers
We just started class last week and mothers are still joining us daily. If you’ve been thinking about it please check out the link to see what we’re immersing ourselves in. We also have a private FB page with a vibrant community setting intentions, asking questions and receiving tremendous support. i’m committed to your thriving.
Meditation has transformed my relationship with my 16 year old son. It has given me the power to pause before I react and that is a GAME CHANGER.
The old paradigm of patriarchy is dying and the new paradigm of feminine power is birthing … MAY IT BEGIN WITH MOTHERS!
I KNOW that when mothers are EMPOWERED we will change the world. I so hope you’ll be one of them.