Stop Doing and Start Being, Mama

There’s more than enough to do as a mother. But that doesn’t mean you can’t stop and take some time to simply be.

What do moms do all day? We cook, clean, shop, chauffeur, support, drop off, pick up, play, design, supervise, discipline, organize — and that’s just as a mom. Some moms also work a full-time job in addition to being a mom. Most moms also offer emotional support and guidance to not just the kids, but also their spouse or partner, parents, siblings, and friends.

Just looking at everything listed in that paragraph can be enough to exhaust you, right? I think if we wrote out everything we do in a day, we’d probably wonder how we got it all done.

But spending our lives in doing mode drains you. It leaves you feeling depleted, exhausted, and eventually frustrated and possibly taken for granted. You need to find time to stop doing and start simply being. How do you do that?

First, let’s define what it looks like when you’re doing and when you’re being.

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What is doing?

Doing is a state in which you are focused on accomplishing tasks. Doing is actually doing things like:

· Washing dishes