Disclosure: I received a book sample for review. Opinions shared are mine.
While I am writing this post, I am eating crackers and Easy Cheese. For dinner. Because that’s what I chose to do tonight. Am I proud of that? Only because I didn’t force myself to eat what everyone else wanted to have tonight, and that is a big deal for me. Sound like something that happens at your house? Read If Mama Ain’t Happy!
If Mama Ain’t Happy could be my story. When my first child was born, we didn’t live near relatives who had kids. We didn’t know what we were doing, and I was convinced that I had to be awake 24/7 to attend to my daughter’s every need. Thankfully, friends and church family reached out and helped us get some stable footing with this parenting thing.
Look closely at the backdrop for this post photo. See the wrinkled fabric? The random whatever in the back of the picture? That’s because the table had so much stuff on it that I had to scoot things over to get a couple of inches of photo space. That’s normal life (for our house, at least.) You need to find some people who understand that, and hold onto that friendship for dear life. This book will show you how.
About the Book:
Rachel Norman gets you, Mama. She knows how much you love your kids. And how, day after day, you put your family’s needs first, which means your own needs come last or don’t come at all.
Today’s moms simply don’t know how to take care of themselves. They hear conflicting messages from society that make them feel that meeting their own needs is selfish.
If Mama Ain’t Happy
Why minding healthy boundaries is good for your whole family
Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents, and then was blindsided by a devastating health diagnosis. Neglecting her own physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs for so long—in an effort to be a selfless mother—had left her utterly depleted. And physically unwell. Then she began asking a question she’d never considered before: Could it be that taking good care of myself is not actually selfish, but maybe, just maybe, something a responsible adult does?
In this countercultural book, Rachel takes some weight off your shoulders by:
- Offering hands-on, rubber-meets-the-road strategies to cultivate a life you aren’t trying to constantly escape
- Teaching you to discover and claim your own limits and boundaries so you can be a calm, resilient, peaceful mother
- Showing you how to shape your daily life and values around the few things that really matter, and how to let the rest go
If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. But when mama is at peace? Everyone benefits!
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