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How to get your Toddler to Clean up (Without the Meltdowns)
Usually, those words are met with one of three responses: Immediate tears, and a dramatic loss of the use of their legs, or a tiny person running in the opposite direction. As a default parent, it is incredibly tempting to just wait until they go to sleep and clean it all up yourself. It’s faster,…
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Still Figuring Life Out
There is a quiet pressure that tells us we should always have the next stepped mapped out. We are expected to have the perfect answers, the flawless routine, and a clear, unshakeable direction. But life rarely moves in a straight line, and the closer you look at the people who seem to have it all…
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Welcome to the Chaos of Life
About me
I’m a 27 year old mum, currently navigating the everyday chaos, beauty and challenges of raising my daughter while still trying to figure out life one day at a time. Between Juggling adult life, parenthood, relationships and endless “mental load.” I’m learning that none of us were given a manual for this.
If you look at me from the outside, you might just see a busy mum doing her best to hold it all together, but if you were to look at the world inside my head, you’d see something a lot more complex
I have spent a long time being a “professional over-thinker.” For as long as i can remember my brain has been a place of constant, buzzing activity. I have wrestled with deep seated anxiety, a perfectionist streak, and a tendency towards hyper-vigilance, always scanning the horizon for the next challenge to face, always trying to exert control over a world that is fundamentally unpredictable.
For a long time I thought this “management” was just how you had to be to get by, to be safe. I thought If I could just think through every outcome, I could keep myself and my loved ones safe. But eventually I learned a hard truth: You cannot think your way into peace, and you cannot control your way into calm.
I’m not an expert who has “arrived” and left the struggle behind. I’m a fellow traveler. I’m someone who is learning, day by day, how to loosen my grip, breathe through the overthinking, and find the beauty in the messy, unscripted reality of being a mother.
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