Why You Are Important Mama & Why You Should Feel Empowered

You are an infant who was just born. All you know is what you feel, and there is no boundary between who you are and what you experience. What comes next begins to shape your understanding of who you are, everything is like a mirror reflecting your developing self back to you. 

If your mother gazes at you with loving eyes and provides deep connection and a feeling of comfort, you feel good. If instead your mother is unable to provide deep connection and intimacy, you do not feel good.  These positive or negative reflections begin to shape your brain, your emotions, and set the foundation for how you will be affected by your life experience. Positive mirroring fosters growth, nurtures creativity, and provides a space for the soul to expand. Negative mirroring hinders soul embodiment, squashes potential, and creates fear. 

As Mothers we are the mediators of our child's experience. How we mediate influences the quality of life for our children. Ask any therapist and they will agree the Mother Complex has a strong influence on the outcome of an adults life. Mothering is a BIG job, and our culture is one that does not fully value nor support the importance of this vital relationship.  

When we recognize our own importance, mothering becomes deeply meaningful and we feel inspired to keep our focus on what is most vital: our sense of wholeness as women and the depth of our connection with our children. This promotes the positive mirroring that is essential to our children's ability to thrive. When we feel empowered we empower our children to do the same. 

Let us support each other to create an evolutionary shift about how we FEEL as mothers, and inspire our children to create a life that thrives.

We create life, we carry life within us, and we nurture all life from without. Let us feel as powerful and as beautiful as we are!

So, I want to know what is the embodied feeling you hold as a woman and mother right now ?

Bring Back Your Mama Mojo With This Technique *VIDEO*

OMG, I have slept through the night AND woke up without having to be for someone else! It's just ME, this morning. How glorious! The littles have spent the night with my parents, so Nate and I could have a date night. It was a lovely evening with my love, but I have to admit it does not compare to this fabulous morning of sleepfulness and inspiration.

It got me thinking about all those little pockets of Alone that I create for myself while also being available for my babies. It immediately brought me to the space of meditation. Do you meditate? I have to say without it, I am a disaster.

I remember several years ago, when I first sat down to meditate, it was awful. My mind buzzed and huffed and puffed and resisted every minute of it. As I continued to practice, it truly became a  special sanctuary of me. It's like slipping into a steamy warm and private bath (another favorite Alone time ritual).  The best thing about it is as you become more familiar with the space that is both expansive and specific , you can call upon it throughout your day.

In this video I share an easy way to get started with a meditation practice. It's a simple technique of following the breath and staying within the body. Again, as you become more comfortable with it, you will enjoy finding moments throughout your day for a mini session.

Don't forget I'm available for you, so leave questions or comments below! 

A Return

Back to the blog after a long hiatus! Zosia is now almost 4 years old and we have another child Sebastian who is 15 months. Welcome Sebastian to the blogosphere! 

 

 I have gone on quite a trip myself. Becoming a mother of two really challenged me in many ways. I felt overwhelmed by the huge responsibility of juggling the many needs of two children and also my husband, oh and of course myself. Now that Seb is walking on his own and communicating somewhat, it has gotten easier. Zosia has also started preschool two days a week and  my husband and I have carved out a somewhat regular schedule. I'm beginning to see myself again. 

Any clear sense of who I was, all the things that I identified as me, even my very body, had been rearranged, turned upside down, and inside out. And yet, I am still me.

How can that be? How can I be me and yet feel completely altered? What exactly changed?

My understanding of who I am.

I am not a finite definition. I am infinite. I am not only this and that, but I am more expansive than I realized. And it feels like love and awareness at the being level, not an intellectual idea.

It did not come easy.

This all takes place within the heart-space. Where the human grows to become more divine. 

And so, the question remains... How EXPANSIVE can I become?