As women in our 30s and 40s, particularly when navigating motherhood, we can often feel like we’ve lost ourselves.
When you dedicate your time, love and energy to the tiny people you created, it’s rewarding, fulfilling and exhausting in equal parts. And we know that going into it; we know that for a while, our needs will take a back-seat, while we pour everything into raising these little people.
In fact, the last 12 years have been eaten up in a whirlwind of babies, toddlers, first days at school, losing teeth (theirs not mine), sports clubs, assemblies, play dates, wiping grazed knees, tears and bums, meeting mum-friends who have become best friends, working a job that fitted around school runs and spinning all the plates.
And it’s been wonderful, and hard, and full of love and totally overwhelming in equal measures.
But one day, you wake up and realise you’ve lost yourself in the midst of it all.
You’re not quite the person you were before having kids, but you don’t recognise the person you are now.
But I see you. Because I was you.
And you’re not lost, as much as you might feel it. You’re in the middle of a transition. Nothing stays the same, and that’s ok.
It’s ok to want to invest your energy into the new you that’s emerging. To get to know yourself again, without the labels, the people-pleasing and worrying what others think.
It’s ok to want to spend a little time focusing on you; to spend a little time putting yourself first.
This is everything the Reset & Rise community is about – and I’m so glad you’re here. ♥️