268: Reflecting on One Year as a Mom of Two

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I share the exciting news that I’ve developed a “Quiet Your Mind and Busy Your Hands” journal and adult coloring affirmation book! I discuss how this project came together and how it implements some of the top elements that have fundamentally shifted my mental health. I also reflect on the past year with two children and how we’ve been trying to embrace the chaos instead of resisting it. I discuss my son’s birth a year ago and the initial overwhelm that came with juggling two kids, the guilt I felt over not being able to attend to both at once, and the emotional shift that happened during the 7-9 month postpartum mark. I also share how my kids’ relationship with each other has evolved over the past year, why I just don’t love the newborn phase, why the mom I was for my firstborn’s year one is vastly different from the mom I am today, and more.

Key Takeaway / Points:

On developing the “Quiet Your Mind and Busy Your Hands” journal and adult coloring affirmations
How I prioritize my mental health
How affirmations have fundamentally shifted my mindset
On resisting the stress of kid’s birthdays and letting yourself have fun in the chaos
Reflecting on my son’s birth a year ago and the initial overwhelm with two kids
On the guilt over not being able to attend to both children at once
On the shift that occurred during the 7-9 month mark postpartum
How my kids’ relationship has evolved over the past year
On being honest about not loving the newborn phase
On how different the first year of my kids’ lives were
On the mom I was for my firstborn’s year one vs. the mom I am today
On my relationship with my husband with two kids vs. one

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Listen to Episode 145: “Breaking the ‘Manic Mom’ Mold” episode here

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:05.8	Come on in, take a seat, bore a drink, pass one to me, conversations with care, talk to life, come join the fair.
0:16.4	Throw away your hesitations, have a filter conversations. If you've got you're here to let, here's conversation. We were going to go
0:30.1	to actually do an interview today, but plans changed, and I decided let's do a solo.
0:35.8	And I'm actually excited for that because I think it's going
0:38.7	to work well because there's stuff to talk about. So before I dive into reflecting on like the first
0:44.6	year of being a parent of two, which is so insane to say because I honestly cannot comprehend
0:50.3	how I gave birth a year ago or the fact that I have two children, I want to do
0:54.8	like a deep dive into the journal because I am so wildly obsessed with this product and so proud
1:02.3	and so excited for it to be in all of your hands. So if you are watching on YouTube, which I know
1:08.6	I like link it out on my Instagram, but I don't even know if I've
1:11.0	ever said it on here. You can watch these episodes on YouTube. I don't know how much of,
1:15.6	well, I know that our listenership is not a huge YouTube community, but if you want to
1:21.7	observe the walkthrough of this journal, it'll be on YouTube. Okay, so the quiet your mind and busier hands journal
1:28.9	and adult coloring affirmation book is finally here. This has been such a labor of love. I was approached
1:35.0	by North and Third, the publishing company who I'm so honored to work with. Like, I want to say over
1:40.0	the summer, because I remember getting the email like crouched down on my laptop on the ground
1:44.5	while I was trying to get our baby to sleep and I was in my parents like the nursery in my parents'
1:49.5	beach house and I was so excited by the idea because this is something that I truly have wanted
1:55.0	to do for the past three years. Ever since I had our first, I have deeply relied on practices for my mental health. And
2:03.6	anytime I mention that I journal or mention that I color or anything like that, I'm honestly
2:11.4	always getting messages. I don't say it's an annoying way. Like, I swear, people are messaging me,
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