(006) What's Really Behind Your Overwhelm?

Why is overwhelm plaguing so many women and mothers? It's the number one most commonly used adjective mamas use to describe their experiences to me. And I'm no stranger to overwhelm myself.  While we could find many different contributors to this - longer to-do lists, higher expectations, more technology, more information, more demands on our time, there's something else, rooted in our biographies and our biology, that we need to consider.  Let's explore this together!  

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Parenting can lead us to a threshold in life we hadn’t known before. We're bringing into the parenting dynamic with our kids the momentum of our previous experiences - our resources and resilience, as well as our disconnection and disembodiment due to trauma (individual, familial, cultural, historical & intergenerational).  Beyond the challenges we face to parent in ways we may not have been parented, there is a deep love for our children that wants to be expressed and known in presence with them. There's also a yearning in us to experience that deep love ourselves; to feel our power and to live authentically, just as we yearn to protect that for our kids, too. The urgency to heal what's still alive within us might come up with a force because of them, and yet it's ultimately a reclamation of our life force, vitality, joy, connection and creativity we're most hungry for. It’s sometimes a desire bold as love that fuels our courage to meet what we fear to face.