b'She\\u2019s skinny, \\u200bcrafty, active, accomplished in her career, family-focused, and\\xa0well-dressed (all the time, even at drop off).\\xa0She\\u2019s the perfect mom.\\xa0She\\u2019s the mom that we are secretly striving to be\\u2013the one that\\xa0does it all and has it all.\\n\\nIn fact, many of the things we spend our time and energy\\xa0striving towards\\xa0are because of her. It\\u2019s because we feel like we don\\u2019t measure up. Because we feel like we aren\\u2019t enough.\\n\\nToday on the podcast I am chatting with Catia Holm, author and inspirational speaker. We are talking about the\\xa0striving\\xa0that we do as mothers.\\xa0What if we could let go of that perfect mother and embrace the very person we are today?\\n\\nI never knew\\xa0how much magic could be found in the ordinary -Catia Holm\\n\\nShow Notes/Links in this episode:\\n\\n\\nThe Courage to Become by Catia Holm\\n\\n\\nThe Six Stages of Parenthood by Ellen Galinsky\\n\\nThe Robcast\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe post SFP 99: Perfectionism in Motherhood [with Catia Holm] appeared first on Simple Families.'