In celebration of Mother’s Day, I am offering you the opportunity to receive a copy of Renee Trudeau’s beautiful book, The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal.
This book is not only full of incredible wisdom and guidance for moms as they experience motherhood, it is a book you will enjoy touching. The book serves as a companion guide, a journal, and a source of reference. The smooth blue and green cover and the journaling pages inside make it a gorgeous coffee table or bedside book for all new and not-so-new mamas.
To win this free copy that will be snail mailed to the lucky mama, just comment on this post and let me know what self-care ritual you have incorporated into your daily or weekly life with young children. Be sure to mention the ages of your children.
I look so forward to reading how all of you are striving to renew your spirit despite the challenges you might be experiencing with lack of sleep and overwhelm that parenting young children brings.
Need more help making self-care a priority? Join Renee Trudeau for a Free Class this month on Reclaiming Adventure in Your Life – this is part of the Live Inside Out movement Renee started. Visit the link and find out the details about the free class.
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I have two kids, ages 6 1/2 and 3 1/2. I’ve started trying to exercise more regularly, which is easier now that my youngest has started preschool. I also try to make some time to write in my journal at least a couple of times a week.
I have begun seeing a yoga instructor for one on one classes once a week, plus attending two or three other group classes on a weekly basis. This came about after surgery last month showed some serious endometriosis throughout my body. I have begun teaching my son (age 5) some of the poses that I am learning, and we now do them together.
I am also getting into running 5k’s this year. My first one is this Saturday.
My husband and I have two girls; one is 3 years and the other 18 months old.
Running, yoga, and spending time with my fellow mom friends are my favorite activities for taking care of me. I don’t get to do them as often as I used to, and that is totally fine! I’ve had to take a break from running and yoga for several months for different reasons, including the busy life with my little girls. I recently was able to build these activities back into my schedule. It feels wonderful to guide my body through movement and arrive at that bittersweet spot of my physical and mental limits. I also cherish the meditation aspect of yoga, just sitting still for a few moments, as well as the immediate moments at the end of both — the stillness of savasana, and the exhilarating exhaustion when finishing a run.
When I first got back into running after the birth of my second child, at about 5 weeks after she was born, my soul found a mantra, and I found it very inspiring and supportive to say it out loud to myself while I was pushing up a hill, or when my legs were tired. Please note that I am NOT a long-time runner! I started running from scratch about 6 years ago, and it has always been a challenging exercise for me. I don’t run until it hurts and don’t run through injuries.
For me, running is a personal challenge and makes me feel good physically and mentally. I’m in charge in that encapsulation of time; nobody else is — not my children, my husband, a boss, a medical provider, the plumber, or the dog.
This is my running mantra that I mention above:
My body remembered pregnancy
My body remembered labor
My body remembers nursing
My body remembers RUNNING
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Note the past and present tense. Four wonderful and powerful experiences for me. I would almost yell out the RUNNING at the end (making sure I wasn’t close to people, LOL), then repeat the mantra several times, with an out of breath voice.
Hi Valerie, Antonette, and Katja, it’s wonderful to hear how you are nurturing yourselves and still able to care for your young children =) It’s tough to do and it’s inspiring to hear your goals and successes around it. Thanks for entering this little contest. I’ve been so distracted with working on the simplicityparenting.com site with Kim Payne that I didn’t market it very well. Lucky for each of you – the competition wasn’t too steep! I wish I could send each of you a book, but I put your names in a bowl and Antonette was the luck winner! I need your snail mail address, Antonette so you can receive your copy of The Mother’s Guide Self-Renewal. Thanks again, mamas, and Congratulations Antonette!