A week ago, I had the opportunity to meet Alice Currah of SavorySweetLife.com and EverydayAlice.com at a blogging event.
The moms of TruuMoms are never far from my mind, and when Alice (who happened to be the keynote speaker) started talking about how starting her blog was an ah-hah moment that helped pull her out of postpartum depression, I just knew you ladies had to meet her, and read what she has to say.
Every day we see confessions from moms of newborns, toddlers, and teenagers who no longer seem to know who they are without the kids. Moms who feel invisible behind the diapers, potty training, or school run. It doesn't HAVE to be that way. You can still be YOU - the best you there is, and you'll actually be a better mom for it.
Ladies, Alice says it better than I ever could. Below is an excerpt from EverydayAlice.com - from a mom who has been there, and found her way through.
"I remember sitting on the living room floor with my back to the wall crying while holding Mimi and watching Abigail play with her growing collection of princess dolls. I felt the crushing weight of the world on my shoulders and all I wanted to do was take a nap but I couldn’t because my older daughter was only 21 months old and needed a mama to play with. Her baby sister was ten weeks old and nursing every couple hours. I was waking up every 2.5 hrs through the night and my longest stretch of sleep was the same. All my energy went into taking care of those girls and the sleep deprivation was effecting me beyond what I could handle. I was also volunteering 10-15 hours a week in a leadership capacity in a MOPS group. I felt so guilty that my house was a mess, I lacked energy to make it to the grocery store to cook a decent meal, and my husband had to come home to a women who was burned out beyond repair. Yet I continued to coordinate bi-monthly fellowship meetings for moms and their children. Ironically these meetings were intended for moms of young children to get a break, except there was no break for me. Fortunately with the love and support of my husband, family and my doctor, the depression only lasted about two months and life was back to normal.
Six years later and ten months after Eli was born I started a food blog called Savory Sweet Life. The motivation for starting it was purely selfish. You see… I was born to be creative. When I’m not creating something, I don’t feel like myself. And when I’m not myself.. I feel a loss of joy because I’m not doing what I love to do. Right before I started SSL, I was working very hard to make sure everyone else in my family was taken care, as I should be doing. But somewhere along the way I allowed myself to let go of the things I loved to do. Three young kids makes for one loud house. So after everyone went to bed, I discovered how nice it was to have a quiet moment to myself. Because I had made a New Year’s resolution the year before to start a blog, I found that I just needed to get over myself and just do it. So in those quiet moments in the night with a nursing baby on my lap I started Savory Sweet Life. Life would never be the same."
Read the rest here.
Tell us - what have YOU done to reclaim yourself lately?
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