I believe the process of becoming a mum starts long before your baby is born or even conceived. It is a knowing deep inside of your heart. A seed that is planted and continues to grow and expand into your daily thoughts and actions. A shift occurs in you and you start looking at life through a different lens. No longer as zoomed in on the day to day, you now have a deeper awareness of yourself and of the world you live in. There is a ‘mother energy’ in you that shows up in the choices you make, your health and wellness, your lifestyle, your values and beliefs. It requires you to slow down a little, tune in and have a deeper connection and awareness of your body and your mind. This process can be a very personal one and is often held in a safe container of support with just a few close friends or family or sometimes not even shared at all. On the outside you may seem like the same person, but on the inside, a transition is happening that requires you to show up for yourself with a dif
Before I had Arlo, I remember thinking that maternity leave would allow me some nice little pockets of time to work on my own personal projects in between being Mum and keeping up with general housework etc. Boy was I wrong! Some days the internal pull between what I ‘want’ to get done in my head vs the reality of what is actually achievable is really hard to swallow. (At least without completely burning the candle at both ends!) I’m a ‘to-do list’, ‘get stuff done’ & ‘have lots of personal projects on the go’ kinda girl. In my working life, I would have my weekly plan and I would divide it out into daily to-do lists. Every time I crossed something off my list, it gave me a little sense of satisfaction. In fact, the feeling of crossing something off was a huge motivator in itself. Now that I’m home with Arlo at nearly 7 months old, I still like to create to-do lists but the truth is, little actually gets crossed off. Even when my list seems verrrrrry basic on paper and ‘do-able’ in