Today, I received a cute gift from my boys. A beautiful bouquet of flowers. It’s yes, a beautiful gift, yet the most beautiful gift I ever had was to be able to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and give birth to them.
Why did I receive this bouquet of flowers today?
Because today is the celebration of Mother’s Day where I live, in Switzerland.
If it’s Mother’s Day where you live too, Happy Mother’s Day to You!
2021 Present
2020 present
Every year, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, I get reminded of the years before I became a mother.
The pain, the grief, the hope, the fear, and the many emotions that accompanied my infertility journey.
Because it has been such an important part of my life, that’s why I want to celebrate with you today what I see as the many forms of motherhood.
👉 Whether you’re not yet a mother but want to be one
👉 Whether you’re a mother already
👉 Whether you were planning to be a mom, but it never happened
👉 Whether you’re the mom to a child you didn’t bear
👉 Whether you’re the mom to an animal
👉 Whether you’re mothering a friend or family member
I am grateful for the knowledge I have acquired throughout the years, what helped me get pregnant through our first ICSI trial, and stay pregnant. I am also grateful for following my intuition.
Fertility might not come easy for women with hormonal imbalances, and while we might sometimes feel as if our body is betraying us by not giving us what we wish the most, there is nothing wrong
Today, I’d like you to take a moment to think of the many roles you play in life, what they require of you and how they nourish or stress you. Consider the roles you relish with joy and those you dread – no doubt there are some elicit emotions somewhere in between joy and dread.
I also want you to think about which of these roles require you to be responsible and if that energises or depletes you. For most women, responsibility is depleting and yet we tend to take on more and more roles that require this.
There is nothing wrong with being responsible and it’s essential to many of the roles we fulfil in life, however, the problems arise when we spend ALL of our time being responsible and we stop having fun.
Remember that little girl in you who would roll down a bank of freshly cut grass or jump in a puddle of rain for no other reason than it looked like fun? That playful little girl is still inside you; she’s just been distracted with too much responsibility.
With too much responsibility and not enough fun, stress tends to increase. And for regular readers of my work, you will know that the ripple effect of constant stress hormone production can be significant on both our physical and emotional health.
Recognise that you can CHOOSE to show up with more fun in your attitude, even to your most responsible roles and decide to spend more time embracing the playful parts of you that may have fallen away as time passed. Make a decision to bring these parts of you to life each day or week, and notice how much less stress you feel and how much more fun and relaxed you are even in your most responsible roles.
