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You Are Never Alone In Your Suckiness

January 13, 2021 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I’ve been spending A LOT of time thinking about imperfection lately. Because what I’m learning as I work with more and more women is that well all have one thing in common. We all have something we suck at and we think we are the only ones like that. And by sucking I don’t necessarily […]

Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: confessions, guilt, shame, strengths, weaknesses

Are You Cultivating Your Creativity?

October 25, 2017 by not your average mom 6 Comments

In the early days of this blog, I was sometimes a little bit aggressive. At the same time I was often overly defensive. I was exhausted and in the thick of it and feeling underappreciated and overextended and not very confident. While one of my goals in sharing my experiences was to let other moms […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: Brene Brown, creativity, Oprah, shame, SouperSoul Conversations, Vulnerability

Parenting Mistakes Are Awesome Parenting *Opportunities*

July 11, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

You know when you lose your shit on your kids and then you are instantly filled with remorse and regret and wish you could rewind and just start all over again? I had one of those moments the other morning. I didn’t really lose my shit. But I was hard on Number 3. Too hard. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, mistakes, positive discipline, recovery from mistakes, responsibility, shame, yelling

Don’t wait for Stage 4.

August 12, 2014 by not your average mom 27 Comments

If you want to call depression an illness, go for it. If you want to call it a disease, that’s fine too. Let’s not argue over semantics. It doesn’t really matter what label you put on it. Depression is no joke and it’s a big fucking deal. And while there may be some people who are […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: depression, guilt, shame, suicide, Vulnerability

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