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What are some of your favorite ways to cultivate self-compassion? 🙏🏽🌱🪴

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Send this to someone who needs to read this today. Something as small as saying, “you’re doing a great job” can have such a big impact. 💞

Nurturing Yourself with Self-Compassion. 🪴

“Self-compassion goes beyond self-acceptance, it has an active element of caring, of wanting the best for yourself. It means saying to yourself, ‘I want to heal, to be happy, to be healthy,’ and knowing that sometimes requires you to make a change.”

The 3 H’s of feeling — hear it, have it, and help it. The “feel your feelings” concept is great — it’s so important for us to feel our feelings! — but it’s often a bit vague. I made this to help me handle my feelings, and hopefully it’ll help you, too! 🧡💛💚

hi loves if this day is tricky for you- you are not alone. lots of people feeling yearny and achy and off today.
we can do achy things.
it's almost over and
you're doing great.
deep breath.
love, g

I fixed myself today.
Little things. Little fixes.
Try easier.
Love you to the moon.
G

Really true!

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Some great things to think about when you consider your motherhood journey.

"Letting feelings be" is a superpower for us and our children. Thank you again and again, Fred Rogers! 💖

And a very important Part 3.

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Posted • Until I learned, 'I cannot save people from themselves." I tried to save people who weren't asking for my help.

It's not your job to tell people how to live and what's best for them. When you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you can choose to watch and mind your business, participate, or not be a part of it. Even when people are not living in a way that might be "best" for them, you cannot force them to live differently.

This post applies to the people in your life with any issue you cannot resolve. For example, it applies to the friend in an unhealthy dating relationship, the family member with an addiction, or the co-worker who always seems overwhelming.

Listening without rescuing can be supportive.

My vibe @ the office today

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Negative, intrusive unwanted thoughts in motherhood are common and experienced by almost every mother. Find a safe person and let them know how you feel.

For tips on how to cope with scary thoughts visit postpartumstress.com and read "Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts" and "Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts"

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No two people experience anxiety in the same way. But one thing we can all do is offer each other compassion and support.

The role we step into as mothers has been handed to us with a set of expectations shaped by our family of origin and the society/culture we live in.⁣
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Currently, the expectations that come with that role are those of intensive mothering and expecting you to be all and do all for your child.⁣
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Intensive mothering involves dedicating yourself to your children to the point that you take better care of your child than you do yourself.⁣
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The ideology of intensive mothering says that mothers should be the main and primary caregivers of their children and that their parenting should be "child-centred, expert-guided, emotionally absorbing, labour-intensive, and financially expensive."⁣
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Essentially, the child comes before the mother in most-- if not all--areas.⁣
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When we are born into a motherhood climate that is seeped with this ideology, we lose ourselves and therefore can resent the role we feel has cost us our identity.⁣
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But it doesn't have to be that way!⁣
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Life coach calls those beliefs The Mother Code—the wiring given to us from family, culture, and society. ⁣
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She joins me to share how to see the myths of the mother code, write our own code, define motherhood for ourselves, and use it as a vehicle for transformation. ⁣
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN⁣⁣⁣
〰 How Dr. Gertrude Discovered the Value in Imperfection⁣
〰 Losing Your Identity in Motherhood (and Taking it Back)⁣
〰 The Beliefs and Myths that Come With the Mother Code⁣
〰 Ways to Embrace and Engage Our Pain Instead of Avoiding It⁣
〰 How We Can Start Mothering in an Empowered Way⁣
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Stream Episode 118 with on your favourite platform or listen at happyasamother.co/listen

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The enduring impact of birth: Women’s birth perceptions, postpartum depressive symptoms, and postpartum depression risk Background Postpartum depression (PPD) and related maternal mood disorders affect anywhere from 7% to 19% of postpartum women. Although historically a neglected issue, there has been a strong impetu...

Over the last several weeks, the Every Mother Counts community has been horrified by reports of pregnant and newly postpartum people in struggling to access the maternity care they need in makeshift and shell-damaged wards. ⁣
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Most recently, images of the destruction of an operational maternity hospital in Mariupol has demonstrated–yet again and in the starkest way possible–how, in the face of violent conflict, it is so often pregnant women and children who bear the brunt of the aggression.⁣
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Today and every day, Every Mother Counts stands with the mothers and families in Ukraine who have been forced to flee their homes, separate from their loved ones, and seek lifesaving maternity care in a dangerous and rapidly deteriorating situation. ⁣
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In times like these, we remain committed to our mission: to ensure equitable access to safe and respectful maternity care for all. Our strength comes in standing together. Now more than ever. ⁣
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Every Mother Counts is currently reaching out to organizations from and working in the region to find out what is most needed on the ground, and how we can best support mothers and pregnant people in Ukraine going forward. ⁣
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We remain steadfast in our commitment to this work, to the mothers and families impacted, and will provide more information at the earliest possible time. ⁣
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The coming days and weeks will be filled with uncertainty as the conflict continues to unfold. One truth that remains: every mother deserves access to the maternity care she needs, and every mother counts. ⁣
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Photo: Lynsey Addario for the New York Times