Pour Yourself into Your Family

Our energy and time are not infinite my friends.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say that everyone who is reading this is stretched thin right now. (May-Cember is a lot!) Or has been at one point in their life. Not many are spared from the chaos of life. And I believe that each of us have been told to embrace the chaos.

Typically, it comes from someone older and wiser who tells us that we will miss this. Which we inevitably will. Of course. We know that. But one is drowning they want a life raft…not a reminder to love the water.

Last week I found myself at a particularly low point. One that felt strange to me since I strive to find joy in every day. But I am human and sometimes it feels like there is no joy to be found.

That was me last week.

And I noticed I wasn’t doing myself any favors either. I was eating terrible food. I wasn’t exercising or going outside. Showers stopped. I became a potato.

At my lowest point I reached out to a friend. One who has a son like mine…just a few years ahead.

She also shares her life on social media and knows the unique chaos of it. I call it the upside down inside out world.

We spoke about being criticized online, the mystery of navigating adult female friendships, and the exhaustion of parenting.

And she said something very powerful to me.