Summer’s MOTHER Power
This week's newsletter is being sent from Tennessee, where I'm spending time with my youngest daughter & her sweet family as we all welcome the newest addition to the family: Mr. Theodore (Teddy) Benjamin Hardwick.
Dear Reader, WE ARE IN LOVE WITH TEDDY & HIS BIG SISTER, and I'm savoring time with these grands!
I'm also all about supporting my daughter & her husband who are fully committed to nurturing & protecting & helping their little sprouts thrive--all the way to their maturity.
Beautiful, right? But also--as those of you who've been here before KNOW-- parenting is also A LOT of hard work.
But, whenever and wherever we're ready to commit our time, effort, energy, money, etc. in order to SEE IT THROUGH--whether it's kid-raising or garden-growing or project completing or career building, etc.--then, invoking our MOTHER POWER shows us the way from HERE to THERE.
Consider this simple guideline for balancing our Mother Flow:
MOTHER a limited number of worthwhile commitments at any given time.
Since Mothering is about committing & sacrificing until the work is done, we've just gotta practice being intentional & selective about WHICH & HOW MANY projects we commit to MOTHERING to their maturity at any given time/ season/ cycle.
This means, we've gotta get curious (and get help if needed) about any patterns we notice that…
Lead us to regularly overcommit to Mothering a dozen different projects at once & then live in perpetual exhaustion, most likely accompanied by a big dollop of frustration and resentment, rather than being engaged in working hard to fulfill a few projects that bring deep value & meaning to our lives
Leave us routinely resistant to committing to anything or anyone, believing that commitment/work = imprisonment/bondage, rather than understanding that my commitment/work = a deeper capacity for connection and growth and love
Result in our repeatedly abandoning projects & relationships mid-cycle, so that our seasonal FLOW gets damned/tangled up, rather than our developing personal strength, perseverance, and the ability to create change
What steps will you take to practice MOTHERING a limited number of worthwhile commitments this summer?
Does something need to be released? To be clarified? To be acted upon? To be implemented? To be addressed with someone else?
Do WHATEVER it takes to sustain & balance your MOTHER FLOW right now, okay?
The world needs authentic MOTHERING energy to keep things stirred up, moving, growing, and thriving abundantly--in the fullness of THIS time and season.
Until next time,
xo
