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Mommy, Why Can’t You Just Let Us Do It?

December 11, 2020 by not your average mom 3 Comments

In working with women every day, I know one of the things that often holds us back from attempting new things or making changes or doing something we haven’t done in a long time – the biggest thing that often holds us back – is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of judgment. And fear of […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned Tagged With: Christmas lights, perfection, perfection paralysis

Perfection And Success Are Not The Same Thing

October 8, 2019 by not your average mom 5 Comments

About six weeks ago I purchased a 12-week online strength training program. I bought it for a couple of different reasons. The first is that I continue to struggle with strength training consistently. At fifty years old, I am fifteen years into the stage of life where I am losing muscle unless I do something […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: perfection, perfection and success, perfection vs. success, success

Do You Suffer From Perfection Paralysis?

June 1, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Can we talk for a minute about this belief (or delusion?) that so many of us moms have that we should be doing things perfectly or we shouldn’t do them at all? Where does this come from? Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we fail to start things (or not even attempt […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: fear of failure, perfection, perfectionism

Perfection Is Unattainable. And Stupid. So Stop Trying To Achieve It.

February 17, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

The other day I was talking with a friend who is a bit of a perfectionist. Actually, she’s a raging perfectionist. She would openly admit this. And we were talking about how life is such a challenge sometimes. I was reminded of this picture I recently saw on a friend’s Facebook page: We went back […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: facebook, husband, kids, mother, perfection, relationship

Maybe a before and after picture isn’t the problem. Instead, maybe the problem is what you focus on in those pictures.

July 12, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

mid·dle age noun  1. the period between early adulthood and old age, usually considered as the years from about 45 to 65 AT 46-years-old, I suppose you could say I’m middle-aged. Middle aged? What the fuck? How the hell did this happen? Falling  into the middle aged category always seemed so far away. When I […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: before and after, bikini, cigarettes, mental health, middle aged, perfection, shredded, tank top, weight loss

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