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Simple Farmhouse Life

252. You Can Thrive in Any Season of Motherhood | Meg of Flourishing Motherhood

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

As mothers, we are often sold lies about what our lives will look like while raising children. Unfortunately, many of these voices paint motherhood in a negative light. At the beginning of her motherhood journey, Meg was quick to recognize these lies and embrace a different outlook instead. This conversation is incredibly encouraging for any mother who is ready to embrace her current season of motherhood with all its blessings and challenges. Meg urges us to lean into our personalities and strengths as mothers and stop comparing ourselves to what others are doing. What will it take for your unique family to flourish? Listen in to take your next step! In this episode, we cover: Overturning the narrative that your life is over when you become a mother How to find your own unique inspiration in motherhood without falling prey to comparison Being honest with yourself about your season of life and embracing flexibility Assessing what mental blocks are hindering you from getting things done How Meg and her family have traveled the world together even while raising young kids The beauty of allowing your personality as a mother to influence your family’s daily rhythm Embracing your strengths and delegating your weaknesses in building community Talking through the logistics of finding and growing friendships as a mom The problem with perfectionism in health, homeschooling, diet, etc. Weighing your values when it comes to deciding where to make compromises The importance of sifting through the mass of conflicting information and finding what works for you View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT MEG Meg is a past nutrition counselor with a passion for taking the “complicated” out of healthy living and adventure. She currently is a momma to four littles and loves to share with other mom’s how to flourish in motherhood! CONNECT Meg Thompson of Flourishing Motherhood | Website | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Pinterest | Facebook Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

Transcript

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Let's try to simplify things so that the moms that feel like it's beyond them or that just feel like they've reached their max.

0:06.7

Like let me try to simplify things to like help everyone feel like they can do this to it.

0:10.4

Like it doesn't have to just be for the homesteaders or the homeschoolers or just people who like, oh, you grew up in the kitchen, that's why you're that way. It's like, no, this could be for everyone. You don't have to be perfect. Like, just start. Just start something and learn along the way mistakes are the best teachers in life.

0:25.0

My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse

0:31.0

on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a little

0:36.8

mom and entrepreneur life along the way. Welcome back to the Simple Farm House Life Podcast. Today we are chatting with Meg from

0:50.5

Flourishing Motherhood. I actually already chatted now I'm recording the intro. I wanted to say that because this was such a good conversation. If you are feeling overwhelmed with all of the health information.

1:02.6

If you're scared, you're approaching what foods you eat

1:06.3

or just your motherhood choices with fear

1:08.5

or you feel like you're stuck in a rut.

1:10.4

She is such a fresh, hopeful perspective that for one have been very inspired by so I think that you're really going to love this conversation

1:18.6

All right Meg so glad to have you on we were just chatting before about how you and I have such very similar views and all of the things that we do with our motherhood and I know the audience says as well. It's going to be really happy to hear from you and your encouragement and your experience in motherhood.

1:34.0

So let's start off with introductions and you can tell us a bit about your business, your

1:37.7

blog, Flourishing Motherhood.

1:39.2

Yeah, so I'm Meg Thompson, I have four little ones, and I started flourishing motherhood when I first became

1:46.2

a mom because I had this misconception before I had kids that life kind of stopped when you had children.

1:56.0

And that like the things I loved doing and the things I was passionate about,

2:00.0

I was going to have to table until my kids were older or in school or whatever and I realized after like my first really year of parenting I was like oh my gosh I can just include my kids into the things that I love and I that's kind of like the

2:15.2

thought behind flourishing motherhood was how to like still like love your life and

2:20.7

be able to like enjoy the things that you're doing in simplicity with your children

2:25.0

that life didn't have to stop, that it actually became much more

2:29.0

rich and flourishing in motherhood.

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