I have done a lot of shameless self promotion of my weight loss lately, and I am not ashamed at all of that. I think that social media and the internet should be used to inspire those around us, and ourselves. I have been working hard on my body and my health, and I want …
Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
This year I decided the best Mother's Day present I could give to my mom and honestly myself was to start becoming more emotionally self sufficient, despite my mental health issues which have often tripped me up in the area of growing up and self soothing. Growing up is a journey I feel like I …
If I want to be a mother, I need to be my own first.
I want to be a mom, but I am not good at boundaries. Ask anyone who knows me. I push the limits one thing at a time, if it’s not getting way too close to a Sea Lion in San Francisco with my younger sister telling me I have to stop, then it's me secretly binge drinking at my Aunt’s wedding when I was under 21 and vomiting all over the stairs of my mom's front porch. I can be a handful. I guess what I am saying is that sometimes moms have to tell us when to stop. I have been thinking lately, that I don’t even know how to tell myself to stop. How will I know how to tell a child to stop? How will I assert a boundary or set a limit with another human who I care about, without crushing there spirit completely. Geez, being a parent sounds hard. Right now I just have to focus on caring for myself, because once I have gotten a little better at that I might feel remotely qualified to have a little human of my own to care for. (Please click on the title to read my entire post)
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