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A Career Woman and Mother: The Best of Both Worlds
Please comment below and share your thoughts with this community of female peers and like minded women! Forward to a friend or woman you believe would find value in these words…Together we are stronger.
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Why Working Moms Need Self-Preservation Not Self-Care
Self-care is important, vitally important. Caring for the body in which you were born is the greatest gift and obligation we have. Feeding it with food as fuel to survive and thrive, staying active to maintain muscle and bone health, and sustaining mental clarity in an increasingly difficult world are all exceedingly important. Self-care promoting a sound body and mind allows us to live longer, giving us the opportunity to fulfill our life goals and objectives and watch our children grow. Health is wealth. In fact, self-care is so important the McKinsey Report estimates it’s a $1.5 trillion industry globally, with a whopping 70% of that spent on products and…
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Meal Planning 101: How to Transform Your Nightly Dinner Dread
Deciding what to make for dinner is easily the most hated decision an adult has to make on a daily basis. While it’s easy and straight forward feeding yourself, determining dinner becomes much more difficult when children and partners are involved. Picky eaters and hectic time schedules can wreak havoc on well intentioned dinners. Fortunately, meal planning can turn your dinner dread to delight! After making decisions all day at work, it is overwhelming to have to make yet another decision when you finally get home after a long day. And what a loaded decision it is! Organic. Healthy. Protein. Carbs. Too many pressures and too many choices can put…
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12 Must Have Time Management Tips for Working Mom’s, Creating More from Less
Overwhelmingly, a working mom’s biggest struggle is time management. Juggling paid work, housework, and care work of children and extended family means we sometimes feel like we’re barely keeping our head above water. It’s no wonder we feel exhausted and stressed most of the time. After-hours work, unmade beds, sick children, plastic toys littering the floor and surface of every room and chronic sleep deprivation take a mental toll on women, feeling like they are barely keeping up and never getting ahead. 5 Powerful Statistics Prove Why Time Management is a Struggle Two-Thirds of working parents reported feeling too emotionally or physically drained when they get home from work to…
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Is Sleep Hygiene the Secret to Sensational Sleep?
Scientists estimate the average adult spends 26 years, or 33 percent of their life sleeping. We spend another 7 years falling to sleep (or trying to) for a grand total of nearly 42 percent of our life spent in bed. That’s more time than we spend eating, laughing and having sex combined. Evolutionarily speaking, sleep is enormously important not just to humans, but to all creatures, as every known species studied to date sleeps. According to Matthew Walker, Neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley (my source for this article unless otherwise noted), “sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health…
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Start Now, Generate The Energy To Take Back Your Life
Casting perfection aside and upon realizing that on any given day I was already doing enough, I had a new frame of mind from which to view my life. The blinders started to come off and my line of vision started to expand, whereby, I no longer felt entirely trapped and stuck in the hamster wheel of commuting, school drop-offs, work, dinner, sleepless nights and guilt. A renewed level of energy was started to take hold. Society teaches us (whether we choose to accept it or not) that we have the potential to do a lot of things that may enhance and bring value to our life. Here are some to…
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Discover How to Embrace Being Imperfect
Once I came to my senses and realized that trying to be a perfectionist wasn’t actually a good thing, something I no longer aspired to, I fully embraced being wildly imperfect! In fact, I even went out and bought a bright yellow sweatshirt, with “Perfectly Imperfect” printed boldly across my chest. There was nowhere for me to hide now! From that point onwards I began openly recognizing my imperfections and acknowledged them with pride. Let’s Have a Closer Look at Perfectly Imperfect I’m sleeping in an unmade bed tonight because I was too tired to make the bed…but I did wash the sheets and hang them out on the line…
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What I Learned From Being a Perfectionist
I was on a mission. I was taking back my life back. No longer paralyzed. Releasing myself from the shackles and chains that had taken hold of me. I was going to take charge and create the life I wanted and deserved! I was going to find myself, remember the woman I was and explore my interests. The perfectionist in me was excited, I was ALL IN. My Perfect Life So, I was off…it looked and sounded something like this: We’re going to grow our own fruits and vegetables! I’m going to learn to play the ukulele! We will eliminate plastic from our home! I will be a wellness goddess!…
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How This Working Mom Eliminated Overwhelm and Reclaimed Life
I had existed in a state of paralysis for so long, a passive observer of my own life, I had forgotten I was the only one with the power to create the life that I deserved, that I desired. That was a revolutionary thought for me. At that moment, I vowed to take back my life!!
