Bless This Mess
The Mother of all Catastrophes
We all have our personal stories of mess... where we had become so broken and beaten down that we barely recognized ourselves. It's the serendipitous moments that shape us --- especially the ones that hit us HARD upside the head and cause us to question... EVERYTHING.
When you are emotionally and physically... just... DONE.
It\u2019s not easy meeting the endless needs of your family and your business, let alone the much-needed time for yourself to replenish your reserves. Top it off with the pressure that our culture puts on us to be super duper homemakers, and then under values the position we are in. Though the job involves incredible amounts of physical, mental, and emotional energy, it can still be trivialized by those who\u2019ve never done it...or worse... those who watch us do it everyday. When our work isn\u2019t valued by others, it is only with great effort that we value it ourselves.
When your "road map" is a mess of detours...
Around this time last year, I had some how lost my way, and I was left in such a cloud of doubt that I had managed to forget my original destination. What was I trying to accomplish anyway? This is certainly not what I had signed up for. What I had hoped would be a powerful message of inspiration to others seemed to only be inspiring vengeful haters, joint ventures had turned into ugly legal battles, high paying clients had turned into delinquent accounts, friendships had turned to feuds... and I had turned into a hopeless mess of despair.
I found myself sobbing on my kitchen floor, desperately trying to become numb on a stale bottle of Two Buck Chuck, impulsively hate texting those who I felt had wronged me, and begging my husband to come home from work to rescue me. Everything was falling apart and I was too broken to fix ANY OF IT.
From Breakdown to Breakthrough
It's hard to believe that all that was less than a year ago. Things are very different today. Now it seems that I am asked--- almost on a daily basis ---how I was able to rise from the ashes as quickly as I did and resurrect the brighter days I once knew.
For the first time since remounting This Little Parent Stayed Home on it's new broadcast network, I am going to begin to share with you HOW I was able to reinvent myself so quickly, and how YOU can use your own stumbling blocks as the necessary building blocks in your own self-(re)development and regeneration.
The Brotherhood of Motherhood
Sharing the airwaves with me once again is the delightful and invincible April O'Leary, who has her powerful story of "headache to headway" to share. April and I agree that owning our calamities can create a vehicle for ideas and expansion, as well as that beautiful thing that binds us all together and makes us more unified in our endeavors. The biggest regrets in life come from the inability to see the blessings in our mess. NOTHING can take away our priceless world class experiences.