Why Every Great Mom Fills Her Cup First

It isn’t easy being a mom. Many days it’s downright exhausting when good enough doesn’t feel good enough. You feel like you are trying to do all the right things. You give everyone your best, and when you are done giving, you go ahead and give some more just to be sure everyone is taken care of. Motherhood is simply a legitimately hard job to do—raising a tiny little people to be happy, healthy and thriving big people in today’s modern world.

It’s so hard that it’s easy to feel like you are running on empty day in and day out. It’s the perpetual state of cleaning, cooking, nurturing, encouraging, finding the perfect balance between positive parenting and firm limits, and growing your relationship with your spouse and making him feel loved too. It’s so easy to forget about the most integral person in all of this—YOU.

Because it really is about YOU. Without YOU there is no cooking nutritious meals or squeaky cleaning or intentional parenting or love for all. Without YOU there is no awesome mama willing to be extra patient, and kiss all the boo-boos, make all the tears go away, and give your kids the best you can. That is why focusing on YOU really does matter.

You, you, you…

Give yourself permission to put yourself at the top of your to-do list.

Yes, the top. Numero uno. You, the mama.

This might sound scary or strange, but yes…

It’s okay to invest in yourself first before you invest in your kids.

It may even sound wacky and crazy, but in order to take care of others, you need to take care of yourself. When you go through your day on empty, there is not much left to offer everyone else.

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