Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Super Mom
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“I’m so overwhelmed. I have too much on my plate. I have three kids and no time for myself. I have no time for yoga. How do you do it all?”
I hear this all the time. As moms, how do we give our all to our children and maintain our joy for life? Two words: Super Mom.
I have three kids – ages 10, 3 and 10 months, and four yoga studios. I teach and practice yoga every day, practice meditation and yoga with my kids, don’t use childcare, am always energized and have the best day ever, every day.
“How is this possible?,” you ask, wondering how a person so “conceited” could be a yogi.
This is not arrogance, it’s energy. It’s not about ego, it’s about “vibration.” The words you use, the thoughts you think, the feelings you have and the actions you take determine your vibration.
Measuring vibration is like calibrating how it feels to be with somebody. Think of someone you love to be around…what is it about her? Is it what she wears (no)? Is it what she drives (no)? Is it where she lives (no)? It’s her vibration. She’s got good energy. Do you?
Vibration is an attitude. It’s a choice. You are the artist of your life – painting with your thoughts, emotions, words and actions. What are you painting? In a busy world with constant stimulation and deadlines, it’s easy to slip into victim mode if we aren’t mindful.
We’ve all had “that” moment, probably more times than we care to recall: you’re late to your three-year-old’s teacher conference, the baby poops as you’re walking out the door, the phone is ringing with an issue that needs to be dealt with immediately, and the school nurse calls on your cell phone to say that your daughter fell, ripped her pants, and wants a new pair and some mommy love – NOW.
Here’s where the choice comes in. You can go into victim mode and fall apart, coming from the land of the overwhelmed, or you can come from empowerment and declare: “I am Super Mom!,” breathe through the moment and proceed, dealing with one thing at a time, finding joy in each moment – your baby’s smile as you change his diaper, the sparkle in your three-year-old’s teacher’s eye as she tells you how wonderful your child is, and the gratitude on your daughter’s face as you walk into her classroom with a fresh pair of jeans.
This is it. This is the only moment that matters. Finding joy in this moment is how we become the joyful person we want to be, and ironically, more time will be available to us. Because the more you CHOOSE to be Super Mom, the more you will BE Super Mom.
Your kids, partner, friends and colleagues are counting on you. But mostly, you are counting on you. You are the one making the choice to have that thought. Choose wisely, Super Mom.
Comments
Great article!
I actually helped my mom with this article so write lots of comments!!
Happy reading!!
- Madison
How nice. So “misstropolis” and such a great message.
Go Misstropolis; your message is important!
what a great reminder that we make our own life! thank you, i really needed this today!
i’m passing this along to my friends and family. beautifully written. i especially love the line about how its not conceited to be outwardly proud of your successes and potential. This is true empowerment.
Thank you Taylor (and Madison
)!
Great article…so simple and powerful….. What a wonderful reminder, especially this time of year when everyone is busier than ever….rushing around, planning for the holidays, hoping to give lots of joy 2 weeks from now, and most likely, missing out on the simple joys of TODAY. Thanks for giving us the gift of the choice to be SUPER MOM…. Just being more aware and mindful can make more of us better moms.
Taylor also finds time to be the best friend ever too….calling in her spare minutes to offer support.
Thanks for sharing your inspirational reminder that today is the best day ever! ; )
I found yoga at taylor’s studio in boston and have now brought her ‘energy’ with me to LA where I strive to have the best day ever. It doesn’t always happen, but the intension is there and, as taylor taught me, it has lowered my stress, brightened my smile, and changed my life. Taylor - great article!!!
I know Taylor Wells WELL and she is living example of how to be present and spin 100 plates at the same time. I call her the bionic woman! I learn from her every day. I am one of her teachers and I am the manager of her Newton studio and I can honestly say that she is not only supermom to her 3 wonderful children, she is the matriarch of the prana family. It is because of this that the energy of her yoga children is a very tight-knit nurturing group of teachers. I grow every time I talk to her. If you have not taken a class with her and are reading this for the first time—GO!! I’ve not come across someone so nurturing, caring and generous in my whole life and I mean that from the depths of my soul! As the mother of a 5 month old she has set a beautiful example for me. Listen to her words! Even my friend who painted her house said “I didn’t really know her that well at first, and then I saw her with her children.“ I feel blessed to have her as my teacher on and off the mat.
I don’t know if I would necessarily use the word conceited when reading this article, although it’s not that far off base. I believe the words that come to mind for me are naive and somewhat simplistic. For me personally, every woman becomes a Supermom by the sheer act of birthing and raising children. including both the warm, fuzzy times and the grumpy, pre-menstrual mommy moments. Those who have the luxury and, more obviously, the support system and financial means that enables the sort of life that Taylor Wells describes, more than likely didn’t get there by sheer force of always being joyful in the moment or vibe-ing on the highest frequency. They are also, quite frankly, extremely fortunate. While not trying to be the grinch who is missing the point of Ms. Well’s article, or dismissing the importance of coming from a place of joy and positivity in one’s approach to life and motherhood, there is a circumstantial, and might I venture, demographic reality that every mother who has had to struggle to make ends meet, working every day to put meals on the table and living dollar to dollar, would find vastly ignored and unacknowledged in this article. Perhaps the choice readers of Misstropolis should make on a daily basis is that of offering thanks for a life where the most urgent priorities of any given day are making time for their yoga practice, or juggling a diaper change, a school conference and an important business call. Would that it be so for all.
you wonder why days float by so smoothly and then one day is so BUMPY and horrid, and then you realize it’s usually all in the ATTITIUDE, the approach. It’s so simple and so complex. And happily, something we can work on.
When i first started working for myself, a mentor told me to write down everything i did in a day b/c, as she astutely pointed out “the day will go by and you’ll think ‘what the heck did i do anyway’?“ and the same applies for being a mom. We all have those days of wondering what we did all day! And who has time to actually write it down. But try it, or just think about the things you might write down. The “list” will astound and amaze you. And it will leave you thinking…YES, i really AM a SUPERMOM!
Deb, I love that suggestion!! Lara, I think your being a little harsh on Taylor. Running four studios and having 3 children is absolutely hard work and that’s why it takes a SUPERMOM to have a good attitude about it and not succumb to the stress of it. Taylor has a life dedicated to serving others (as a former therapist, volunteer with pregnant addicts, the countless people she serves through her yoga studios and mother of 3 to mention a few!) and helping them raise their own vibration. I know her personally and know that she has kept this attitude whether she had money or not. I know her history. I guess I was a little put off by your article and maybe I missed what you were saying so I don’t want for the writing of this to make it funky because it’s easy to misinterpret written words and they may be meant a different way. So, anything and everything I say is with love and respect and I bow to the light in you from one mother to the other!! I don’t have alot of “financial means” as you say and consider myself a very hard worker and have adopted Taylor’s example of choosing to reach for the better feeling thought than to succumb to “woe is me!“ Furthermore “demographic reality” puzzles me because (though I get what you are saying, I am not naive to think that nothing is going on in terms of demographics and finances in the world)-I have met some of the most abundant, positive, full of unconditional love and faith from the “ghettos” of Ireland to the “ghettos” of Wellesley (yes, WELLESLEY had some of the most horrific homes and scenarious I had ever been to while working for the state!) to the “ghettos” of Dorchester-from the tar paper shacks in Ecuador to homeless and abused woman and children in shelters in Oregon—THERE IS STILL THE ABILITY NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE, WHERE YOU WERE BORN, etc and what your surroundings are to choose your attitude and live on a VERY high frequency of choosing to feel good and choosing to feel strong no matter what. You were born with unconditional love and joy, don’t let life cirumstance take that away. Most of the people in all of those places have taught me more than any book I have ever read. They are powerful teachers and most of them had children. Also, the some of the poorest of the poor practice yoga!! Yoga really means “union with self”, no one needs money for that. That is free!! People choose to practice in a group, which is why there are studios! Namaste
Thank you Blair, Madison, Erin, Rachel, Jamie, Lizzy, Shanti, Pamela, Jacqui, Lara and Deb for your wonderful comments. I am grateful for your words. Madison (my ten year old daughter), I had no idea that you has written a comment, and so it was a joy and a surprise to read yours. I am so glad that you all took what you took out of “Super Mom,” as we all take what we need to take, just as we are all ready to transform when we are ready to transform—not before—no matter what or who is put in front of us.
Many years ago, as I hiked through the mountains of Montana with one of my first yoga teachers, he asked me if I had grown up with “a lot of money.”
My eyes sparkled as I laughed inside at the absurdity of that thought, marveling at the fact that that was the energy I was exuding, despite the childhood I had lived.
I knew then, as I know well now, that projection of abundance, and abundance itself (it’s the same thing), has nothing to do with actual material things. It is an energy, an attitude, a joy and love of and for life. Sometimes it takes awhile for this abundance to reflect back at us in material form, but it always does, eventually.
I learn and grow from every single experience in my life, and have learned and grown from reading all of your words as well. And so I send you all gratitude and light.
I also wish to take the time and energy to open my heart and share more about myself with Lara, and all of the other readers reading this response, than can be shared in a 500 word article, since Lara brought up some important points in her comment.
It is correct that I am extremely blessed and abundant, and I am grateful for this more times every single day than I could count. I lived a charmed and abundant life—the best life ever—and it gets better every moment and with every experience. It is better because of the comment Lara wrote, for example.
I am proud of the life I have and lead, and the abundance that shines from my heart and is therefore reflected in my surroundings. I know that I deserve all of this abundance, as does every human being. It is our birthright: sheer and utter joy and the best day ever every single day.
I am not ashamed to say these words or of the fact that I am extremely blessed and abundant. I am speaking and coming from pure positive energy, from my life force—my prana—as we all have the ability to, if we so choose.
We must all be mindful to not apologize for our abundance—emotional, spiritual and/or physical abundance—and to not pressure others to apologize for theirs, while concurrently being mindful that not everyone has what we do, practicing gratitude continuously, and teaching others about the path of light, which always leads to abundance on all levels.
We must also be mindful to not make assumptions about others. They are on their own journey in this lifetime, and they have a story we know nothing about. I remind myself of this every time I teach asana, as every student brings with them a wealth experiences, joys and pain.
It is correct that I did not manifest the life I describe and live it joyfully by “sheer force of always being joyful in the moment or ‘vibe-ing’ on the highest frequency,” and choosing the best thought ever. I did that in addition to surviving an extremely abusive childhood and adolescence in a home where I raised myself while my parents drank themselves into oblivion instead of providing for, loving and teaching their four children. I then left home at 17 to attend Brown University, where I had earned a partial academic scholarship, and worked three jobs to pay for the rest of my tuition, and so on.
In times of despair, from a tiny child until I was seventeen and left the insanity that I called home, I had a choice: to suffer or to thrive. Each moment, I had a choice of what to think—on what to focus. I chose to thrive—despite and because of—my surroundings. The physical is illusion anyhow. It is what is in our hearts that is of consequence. Despite a lack of “physical abundance” and parental love and guidance, I chose to thrive and be happy.
The point of these words is not to play the “I had a rough childhood card.” I do not play this card often, or ever, really. It is unnecessary and it is darkness, which I choose not to focus on in my writing and in my life. I choose to write about how to live in the light and how to go about choosing that in order to shift and transform your life, no matter what is happening around you.
I can do this—write of choosing light and love—because I walk my talk and choose not to engage in the darkness that was my life, and would take more than a 500 word article to get into. To be continued. Please read on to next comment (comment template will not allow my entire response).
(Continued from my comment above):
To write about the past and darkness would only give it energy, and my energy is far too precious and too strong to give to the dark side. Again, it always comes back to choice: do I choose light or darkness?
My point is that we always have a choice. Even in times of pms and extreme adversity, we always have a choice. We can choose to come from light and love because we are the only ones thinking in our minds and we are therefore the only ones who hold ourselves in bondage—in the role of “victim” instead of “empowered being.”
I am not talking about perfection—of not having natural emotions which accompany certain physical and/or emotional situations in our lives. I am talking about choosing to keep going back to the thought that feels best. I am talking about empowering ourselves to be happy because of—and in spite of—our surroundings.
In my early twenties, when I was healing from the traumas I had endured, many people wanted to know how it was that I had survived—and thrived. My answer, again and again, was that I remembered who I was. I knew that I was light and love, and I focused only on that—finding it in each situation, because it is always there—even in and especially in, the direst of moments. I knew that my parents were doing the best they could in each moment, as we all do, and I knew I would get out—one day. I knew that slow and steady always wins the race, and so if I could just keep remembering who I was, I would eventually manifest that in my life surroundings. It took almost two decades, but the tables turned, and continued to turn with the momentum that I had built with my every thought and action. I was resilient because I chose light over darkness. In every moment we choose light or darkness, and I choose light, no matter what is going on around me. Religious people are afraid of hell, and spiritual people have been to hell. I am a very spiritual person.
And again, it is important—especially during the holiday season—that we are all mindful not to confuse money and material abundance with joy and light. Some of the happiest people I have met and spent time with had the least amount of “resources,” (i.e. money, material things) and some of the saddest people I have met and spent time with had the most resources. I worked in a day program for pregnant addicts at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury, and the “low ses” (socioeconomic status) women I worked with laughed, smiled, and truly enjoyed life a lot more than the “high ses” patients I saw at Harvard University.
So after working with and getting to know people living with addiction, people with debilitating eating disorders, homeless people, etc. and from my own personal experience, I know that money or “physical abundance” is not what makes us happy. I know this because I have had money or “physical abundance” and I have had no money or “physical abundance,” and I was light and love no matter what was in my bank account—no matter what my surroundings were. I felt just as happy then as I do now. That’s what makes me a yoga and spiritual teacher—that even through extreme difficulties in life, something in me knew that I had a choice. My parents, friends, partner and/or teachers didn’t teach me this. I knew it in my own heart, as we all do, when we remember who we are.
I am reminded of a story told by one of our Prana teacher trainees during our 2007 Teacher Training.
She was working at Children’s Hospital and met a woman who did not have a lot of “financial and physical resources,” and her son was born with a debilitating disease which left the child blind and unable to use his legs and arms.
My student described how the woman was so happy all the time and talked about how she loved her life, describing how she took her son to the park, to the beach, etc. and she loved every moment of her time.
My student said with honesty that she thought the woman was either crazy or lying. But after spending time with this mom—this super mom—my student learned that she was neither. She was truly happy. She exuded joy, and everyone around her felt it and benefited from it. This story reminds us all again to be mindful of not confusing what things truly bring joy.
I believe that every mom is super mom. If she can just remember, moment to moment, who she is, without all the “stuff” around her. We are all light and love—the only thing that matters in this lifetime, and others.
I create my own reality, as do you. I determine whether my experiences make me bitter or better, as do you. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to manifest the physical dimension of our reality (in my case, almost four decades), but it was always there anyhow—in our heart.
Have the best day ever!!
Namaste!!
Taylor
The native American adage comes to mind: “we can not know a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes.“
I had so many thoughts in response to lara’s laden comments, but reading jacqui and taylor’s words, what more could anyone say? Their heartfelt responses were beautiful and stunningly accurate. Taylor and Jacqui’s words, their peace, and their joy reveal even more than what they say. It is strikingly apparent that Lara’s words and Taylor’s words come from very different places. And we all have the power to choose that place from which we (and our consequent vibrations) emanate.
Taylor is such a great friend and teacher. Her words are very powerful to me. She has helped to remind me that I am always a supermom even through difficult circumstances. I urge mommies to listen to what she has to say! And practice yoga. It works.
thanks for this article…opening a boutique while being a mom of three has been a lot more work than I ever imagined…but, i love it, and love being a mom and know that i want to do both. i will be a supermom because i want to someday give the business to my girls. i have hired some great people because i want to be home when they get off the bus-it is all a balancing, multi tasking act which ALL moms are experts at. it really is all in your attitude.
great piece!
merry christmas-it is christmas eve and i am enjoying some great misstropolis articles while i for all the little ones upstairs to be fast asleep so i can assist santa.
Thanks for your comment Madison. : )
Yes, it is so important to keep it positive. I too have circumstances as a mother that one might say - poor lady! or something like that, but actually i have the best day ever every day as my intention, so i’m smiling!
already i am seeing many dreams come true as i stay positive through my experience. I live in one room with a baby, no child support, etc. my son’s father left us, etc. sounds sad? well it is so not! i am happier than i have ever been!
love, shanti
ps thanks everyone for the comments. to sum up—- after i read lara’s piece i thought - my life sucks! i’m poor! that’s right! how sad! but after a couple hours i realized i just feel better being positive optimistic and hopeful - and i want to feel good! when i’m happy, my son’s happy…...and what could be more amazing than a smiling happy baby?
i am so happy for everyone else’s abundance too!
Hello everyone!
I feel honored to read such an abundance of experience and love coming from all the comments! I feel that difficult moments remind us about the little things that bring us joy in life. Living this joy leads to abundance in all forms, support, love, health, wealth. All moms are SUPER! This article is inspiring to me and makes me look forward to being a mom and enjoying every part of the experience (even when the baby poops as you are walking out the door)!
Shine on!
Wow,
All of these comments are so inspirational to me. I don’t know what made me go to the PPY website this morning, but I did and clicked the link when I saw the title “supermom” . I want to be light, love and positive energy and I have fallen somewhat in to the negative energy . Christine, I too am a mom of 3 girls and opened a boutique 5 years ago. I love the fact that you love what you do and want to give your girls the business. I am going to keep rereading all these things so I can too find some inner peace and joy. Madison, I love that you write from your heart. Taylor & Jacqui, I hope to see you soon.
Wow…..what an intense group of commentary! As a friend of Taylor’s and also, as a person who feels what she has been through, as her description of her family of origin almost fits mine to a tee, I have to agree with the spirit of this article, that being that we are powerful in our own choices, and that by choosing light, we will always shine no matter where we may be during any particular time in our travels down the road of life.
Past’s like Taylor’s and mine are no easy feat to recover from…if you ever fully do. It takes HUGE examination of one’s soul to not succumb to that “my life was sad…let me make poor choices and screw up my children as well”, or “let me judge others by my perception of what I think that they have or don’t have” negative thought process. Taylor was in no way saying that every day will be a cake walk as a Mom, she was merely pointing out that you can take 2 roads…I will always choose the road that points me to laugh when the baby poops as I walk out the door! Why??? Because those ‘such as life’ moments truly make these days worth living! They are the universe’s sense of humor waking us all up! HELLLOOOO….GOTCHA!
I try to always take the happy path and believe me…there have been struggles. I am happily married,and like Taylor, have 3 children. My husband is a Police officer who works insane hours, while I am at home (and feel lucky to be there:), caring for our guys in addition to attending Nursing school. Is it a challenge raising 3 kids on one salary? You betcha! Are there days when I worry about every police wife’s worst fear???? Sure… I’ve indulged in that darkness maybe for a sec but really, what is the point?? Our children have everything that they need, the most important things being a Mom and Dad who are committed to our world as a whole. In spite of our hectic schedules, we are constantly striving for the balance needed to provide the love and care for them, as well as that for our friends and families, and for our community as well! Talk about spinning plates!!!!It is truly amazing what you can pull off with a positive outlook! My personal backround was added merely as proof that light knows no “status” it is just that…light. It is what we are all capable of if we choose to be. There is no shame in sitting back once in a great while and being a little thrilled at all you have been able to pull off! These are the days after all!
Take Care All!
Chrissy
Your comments are all appreciated and deeply thought-provoking. Although many of you felt I was being negative and personally attacking the author of the piece, I meant to do neither. As all of you did, I was expressing my honest reactions to what I was reading and, as in most things in life, that can be a very reactive thing indeed. But, as Madison so eloquently put it, the internet is a crazy place, and intentions can be easily misunderstood and misread. Taylor, my apologies if you felt that I was being personally negative and disrespectful towards you; that was not my intention, and I thank you for sharing details of your past with me. As a survivor of rape, agoraphobia and cocaine addiction, we have many similarities in living through early years of trauma and crisis. I also fought very hard to choose to find a place of joy and light in the worst moments, and my family, children and professional successes are blessings beyond measure of which I am very proud. I applaud your hard work and accomplishments, personally and professionally, and how you continue to live a life where there is happiness in every moment, no matter the circumstance; thus is the way to survivorship. As clarification of where I’m coming from, my path has also taught me to embrace and love the imperfections, and allow the yucky moments and less joyful parts of who I am and who I was. As women, we so often set ourselves up by our own expectations of being able to do all and be all to everyone in our lives, and it just sometimes does not work out that way, despite our best efforts and intentions. We all work hard to build the lives we most want, but circumstances and available support play a big part in that, and that is something that should not be overlooked. I have been incredibly fortunate to have had involved, loving parents and a supportive partner who have been like a village for my children as I balance work and family; not a day goes by that I don’t give thanks or acknowledge that I am tremendously blessed in a way that others may not be. I do not come from a place of bitterness, as some of you have inferred, as all I went through created a very courageous, committed, and yes, spiritual woman. But, for me, a full understanding and acknowledgement of blessings, reality and inequity best serves to evoke empowerment and change.
With that said, ‘for me’ is the operative phrase here, and it looks like I may have lost sight of that in attempting to make a point about available circumstances. That was what I felt was not being conveyed in the article, which Taylor then addressed in her subsequent post. I never took issue with Taylor’s encouragement to live mindfully in the moment and convey joy. In hindsight (which is always the way, isn’t it? LOL), I wish my words had been better able to express that in a more constructive manner. That particular lesson was driven home by Shanti’s words; if my e-mail evoked a feeling of ‘my life sucks, how sad’ for you, then obviously my presentation of my thoughts and feelings was way off base, and that I deeply regret. Shanti, you are the definition of a SuperMom and a strong, warrior woman. Blessings to all on the road to a new year, apologies if my words offended, and gratitude for the sharing and lessons learned.
Hi All,
Nice to read all of your wonderful comments!!!
I am glad to see that there are no more negative ones! Mom? when are you going to write another article? It seems like with all these comments, soon you’re readers are going to want more…..
AM I RIGHT?!
Spread the love,
- Madison
(age 10)
hi lara,
thanks for calling me a super mom warrior woman - yes, we all are!
i think because my financial circumstances and life circumstances would cause most people in this country to stress out, i felt i was one of the “put food on the table….“ women. that is why i felt bummed out after reading the article, whereas i felt uplifted from taylor’s article, even though i know she has very different circumstances from me at the moment.
the truth is, i rarely if ever worry about money or if i’ll ever have a man or any of these things that so many do freak out over….. i have total faith that these things are coming, and i have been blessed with all i need and more from many sources. I am lucky that i do have faith and a positive attitude, because i had the strength to leave an abusive relationship knowing that i will always be provided for.
taylor has been such a help to me during my whole drama—- so it is actually not even a drama. it’s like this drama is occurring outside of me and i’m just watching it, doing what i have to do, and still having fun! (the “drama” involves the bit i’ve mentioned plus court and lawyers and lots of yucky stuff)
Love to all you gals.
shanti
Taylor: I have just read your article and the numerous follow-up comments from your readers. Your words and sentiments are not only beautiful but heartfelt. I have watched you blossom from a teen-ager who was my daughter’s favorite babysitter to a young adult at Brown University to the woman I presently call my friend. I know you not only speak your truth, but also live it. I know your past hurts and your present blessings and how you have had to make tough choices in your life. But you never once gave into the “woe is me” mode and always chose the light. As a mother and grandmother, life has taught me much about making difficult choices and deciding how we choose to view the experiences that are presented daily to us. Life is messy and sad and sometimes devastating, but more often than not it is also uplifting and joyful and something to very much embrace - all the parts of it. There is a wonderful card that sits above my kitchen sink so that I may view it several times a day. It reads, “She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.“ So I say this to you Taylor, may your words continue to inspire and your energy continue to vibrate. Love you lots, DJ
I really needed this! I am a mother of an amazing 10 month old, Zuleica. ANd I had my first freak out today! My name is Lara too- I didn’t want people thinking I was an imposter
so I posted under my daughter’s name.
Well the stress has been building since she was born-
Don’t get me wrong I am the happiest I have ever been in my entire life- but I am also the most tired I have EVER BEEN! YOu know, the sudden realization that you are now responsible for someone elses’s precious life and livelyhood but not just anyone- THE most important person in your life!- that alone can feel like a huge stressful weight at times.
I did my teacher training in Kerela India at the Sivananda Yoga Forest Accademy there. I have a very strong practice and am usually very, how you would say- “Super Momish”- I call it being a “bad a$$ multi tasker!“
(I got a shirt from my daughter/husband this Christmas with that written on the shirt!!) But well…
The last straw was when I asked my husband if he wanted to make the organic bluberry oatflour (no wheat god-forbid she’s allergic!)egg yolk only- (no whites god forbid she’s allegic!) no sugar muffins for our trip to NY this weekend,or hold the baby- (we’re from upton, MA)and he refused to pick! simply saying- oh, I don’t mind, I’ll do either, the nerve of him!!!
ANd I lost it- the words “Why don’t you ever take initiative!!!! “ were tosssed around.I was way out of line. Not realizing that the stress had finally gotten to me- I snapped- and poor Jason had to endure the brunt of it all. Of course hours later after 2 hot cups of Nursing Mom’s tea and a soak in the tub later- I realized how way out of line I had really gotten- not with him but with myself. I think it takes an EXTREMELY centered person to be as centered and in the moment as you describe, Taylor. CHeers to that and I strive to attain that! I’ll be the redhead at one of your classes Munday morning- for the first time!- so excited to visit the big apple!
I think it’s hard to believe by some (including myself a little, to be honest-) that that grace in and out of the days can be attained- because of the amount of peace that you must make with yourself and with the world in order to flow through life unbothered and joyous- when the stress feels like life is pulling at you from every direction- I mean honestly- 3 kidas and you never feel tired and stressed- you must teach me woman!! or do a workshop or something!is it possible, absolutely, but not without the occassional stepping out of line to see where the definition of centeredness lies-for me anyway. Unfortunately for me it does take the uncenteredness to see how far I’ve come. Just like on the flip side after meditation or yoga- you tend to realize how off centered you have been, and where to improve in everyday life. I don;t know, today was a lot- my back hurts- from breastfeeding and lifting, and to be honest I am tired. Tired of cleaning the house constanly only to have it be a wreck when I turn around, tired of struggling to keep up. WHen I look at Zuleica It IS ALL WORTH IT!!! but I can’t say I’m not exhausted.
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