Your morning mantra

Start your day inspired: January 11, 2024

I struggle with feeling like my work at home with our children matters.

I worked so hard for so many years at my public relations job.

I loved it, even thought it was a demanding and sometimes stressful career.

I was even made a partner in the agency, bringing home a great income for our family.

Now I am home with our young children full time.

It’s demanding in a different way.

But I absolutely love it.

I am so grateful I have the ability to be with our children during their younger years.

Not every family gets to make this choice.

I am very blessed to be a stay at home mom right now.

But that doesn’t mean I still don’t struggle with realizing this one truth:

I am still contributing to our family — just in a non-financial way now.

I was raised to equate worthiness as a spouse with working hard, so this is a deeply ingrained belief I am working through as an adult.

If you’re a stay at home parent struggling with any of these beliefs, please know you’re not alone.

You are doing work that matters.

I have to remind myself of this daily.

We are all doing work that matters, just in different ways.

Here’s to knowing your work matters,

Lauren

Start your day inspired with your morning mantra.

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Good morning, sweet soul

Your morning mantra for today is:

My work matters.

My gifts are revealing themselves in new ways.