This resonates deeply with my experience as a parent of two daughters. Striving for balance as the primary caregiver, I seek to foster strengths that support our lives together. I aim to provide confidence, liberation, and consistency throughout our journeys. This embodies the beauty of a mother's love, side by side. 🕊️❤️🕊️
This is so beautifully said—*confidence, liberation, and consistency* are such powerful gifts to offer, and the fact that you're doing it side by side with your daughters makes it even more meaningful. Thank you for sharing this—it’s a reminder of what’s possible when we stay connected to ourselves while showing up for our kids. 🧡
A journey often felt and yet rarely seen. It’s a journey of Love as a single Mother.. You give everything you have.. Love, compassion and understanding and the importance of communication. We each have our direction in life.
Side by Side🕊️❤️🕊️ peacefully protecting each Heart.
These words, Erin! Thank you for finding the time (for yourself, and for us) to write them. I remember the season of drowning in needs for others and work, with very little time for myself while reading this. I do feel, after having lived this (with a subtle air of depression throughout), I have slowly learned what it means to put myself first so I can be there for others.
Thank you so much for this, Bethany. That season you described—drowning in needs, with barely a trace of yourself left—is something so many of us have lived, often quietly and with more weight than anyone sees. I really appreciate your honesty about the subtle depression that can come with it. And I love what you said about learning to put yourself first so you can be there for others. That shift is hard-won, and it’s everything.
Great series, and this one deeply resonated. Especially the part about squeezing in everything. As a full-time working mom of two, the struggle of balancing everything is real. But I kept doing all the things that made me happy because I am such a better mom when I do!
I love this, Marina—and completely agree. Holding onto the things that make us feel alive isn’t indulgent, it’s essential. I’m so glad this one resonated, and I admire the way you’ve protected your joy in the middle of it all. That’s powerful.
Erin, you’ve put this so beautifully and I feel every word.
I know that feeling of slowly disappearing. Of doing everything for everyone and forgetting what I even liked or needed. I used to believe that was just part of being a good mother. But it only made me feel more invisible. Now I’ve learned the real work is staying connected to who I am, even while taking care of everyone else.
*The real work is staying connected to who we are, even while taking care of everyone else.* That’s it. That’s the shift. And it’s hard, but it’s holy. Thank you for putting words to what so many of us feel, Saima. We weren’t meant to disappear.
This cuts right to the ache so many parents carry. By the time we realize we want to re-enter the frame, we’re not even sure who we would be in it. The hardest part is remembering how to want, how to be something beyond usefulness. And yet, reclaiming that space isn’t selfish. That's how we stay sane. Thanks for all the parenting myths Erin, you nailed them.
Thank you so much for this, Aleksandra. You put it perfectly—“remembering how to want” is one of the hardest and most necessary parts. I’m so grateful these posts resonated, and honored to have named something you’ve felt. We’re not alone in this.
This resonates deeply with my experience as a parent of two daughters. Striving for balance as the primary caregiver, I seek to foster strengths that support our lives together. I aim to provide confidence, liberation, and consistency throughout our journeys. This embodies the beauty of a mother's love, side by side. 🕊️❤️🕊️
This is so beautifully said—*confidence, liberation, and consistency* are such powerful gifts to offer, and the fact that you're doing it side by side with your daughters makes it even more meaningful. Thank you for sharing this—it’s a reminder of what’s possible when we stay connected to ourselves while showing up for our kids. 🧡
Thank you, Erin.
A journey often felt and yet rarely seen. It’s a journey of Love as a single Mother.. You give everything you have.. Love, compassion and understanding and the importance of communication. We each have our direction in life.
Side by Side🕊️❤️🕊️ peacefully protecting each Heart.
These words, Erin! Thank you for finding the time (for yourself, and for us) to write them. I remember the season of drowning in needs for others and work, with very little time for myself while reading this. I do feel, after having lived this (with a subtle air of depression throughout), I have slowly learned what it means to put myself first so I can be there for others.
Thank you so much for this, Bethany. That season you described—drowning in needs, with barely a trace of yourself left—is something so many of us have lived, often quietly and with more weight than anyone sees. I really appreciate your honesty about the subtle depression that can come with it. And I love what you said about learning to put yourself first so you can be there for others. That shift is hard-won, and it’s everything.
Great series, and this one deeply resonated. Especially the part about squeezing in everything. As a full-time working mom of two, the struggle of balancing everything is real. But I kept doing all the things that made me happy because I am such a better mom when I do!
I love this, Marina—and completely agree. Holding onto the things that make us feel alive isn’t indulgent, it’s essential. I’m so glad this one resonated, and I admire the way you’ve protected your joy in the middle of it all. That’s powerful.
Great stuff, Erin.
Thanks, Dylan!
Erin, you’ve put this so beautifully and I feel every word.
I know that feeling of slowly disappearing. Of doing everything for everyone and forgetting what I even liked or needed. I used to believe that was just part of being a good mother. But it only made me feel more invisible. Now I’ve learned the real work is staying connected to who I am, even while taking care of everyone else.
*The real work is staying connected to who we are, even while taking care of everyone else.* That’s it. That’s the shift. And it’s hard, but it’s holy. Thank you for putting words to what so many of us feel, Saima. We weren’t meant to disappear.
This cuts right to the ache so many parents carry. By the time we realize we want to re-enter the frame, we’re not even sure who we would be in it. The hardest part is remembering how to want, how to be something beyond usefulness. And yet, reclaiming that space isn’t selfish. That's how we stay sane. Thanks for all the parenting myths Erin, you nailed them.
Thank you so much for this, Aleksandra. You put it perfectly—“remembering how to want” is one of the hardest and most necessary parts. I’m so grateful these posts resonated, and honored to have named something you’ve felt. We’re not alone in this.