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Please Respond! Our Latest Blog and a Favor Asked

Published 9 months ago • 1 min read

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Good morning dear friends! I hope your Wednesday morning begins with a smile and a warmed heart. If not, go grab that coffee and come back! ;-)

I have a favor to ask. This week's blog post is written to the moms out there who are preparing for (with teens in tow) or are already in the empty nest stage of life.

However, if you overidentify with ANY of your roles in life, whether it be in your career or as a mom, dad, husband, wife, caregiver, volunteer, etc., there are nuggets you can use to get back to your authentic self. Our identity and worth are inherent, not based on what we do! Rather, our doing should flow from our being.

With that in mind, as I narrow down topics for some coaching courses to offer, would you be so kind as to forward this post to any moms out there you think might be a bit lost or stuck, feeling like they're "just a mom?"

And if you have ideas for what you'd like to see in a coaching course related to any content you've seen on the blog so far, please message me. I want to hear from you!

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Do you ever feel like you're just a mom? Do the daily demands and tasks, let alone the roller coaster of hormonally infused emotions, leave you feeling lost? Exhausted? Wandering?

The demands of a mom, if she's not also employed, self-employed or side hustling, are like having 2.5 full-time jobs.

When my kids entered their preteen years and my identity as a mom shifted to something new, I didn't feel like I was needed as much. Feelings aside, the fact is that l was still very much needed, it was just a different type of need I had to learn to navigate.

It can feel like we're stuck in survival mode from all the demands. In our family's case, neurodiversity was also thrown into the mix, including my own unexpected, and at the time, undiagnosed ADHD.

It felt like I was hearing, "Welcome to the Hot Mess Express, buckle up and hang on for dear life."

Thankfully we don't have to camp out in survival mode. There are ways to tend to our hearts as we navigate the hormones and our children’s differentiation, while still being the mom they need us to be in this season. Our hearts can be prepared to better navigate the path to empty-nesting.

May your doing flow from your being,

Laura

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See you next week!

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