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Pause for a moment. Who are your biggest influences when it comes to parenting and relationships?

You are the average of the five people that heavily influence you in any area of life. 

Recently, John and I reached out to close friends of ours, Dawna and Brad, who now have teenagers.

We love how they parent, we love their relationship, and we love their outlook on life - and how they live their life.

We asked them to coach/ mentor us in the areas of "Relationship" and "Parenting" as a family...

Do you ever feel misunderstood? Or feel unseen and unheard?... You can't quite articulate the experience in words - and there is an experience that sometimes you wish the people around you "got you".

If only they understood how much you're trying, and how much you love.

If only they could sense that you're giving this parenting thing everything you have.

There is a lull of feeling under-appreciated.

The feeling of being not good enough is a constant - no matter how much you meditate, do yo...

Growing up, my parents would say; "We gave everything up for you...!".

I never asked them to. 

This isn't to sound ungrateful - and I am not judging them. 

EVERYONE is doing the best they could with what they know at any moment in time. I genuinely believe that. Each individual is on their unique journey and their best - is not for us to judge. 

And yes, sometimes their best - may impact us in hurtful and painful ways. We are still 100% responsible for our own emotions, choices, and actions. T...

Firstly - Thank-you.

Thank you for reading, for being on this journey of exploring and having Motherhood be a foundation of healing, transformation, and an access to being our best selves.

I'm humbled that I get to write and share - and that you give your time so generously in reading and digesting these words. 

Find comfort that if these words resonate with you - You're not alone. Whatever you're going through, thinking, or working through - we're in this together.

Equally - acknowledge y...

I remember this moment so vividly. It was an "A-ha" moment that shifted my inner world and had an incredible ripple effect on my experience of Motherhood. 

Avery was three weeks old. It was the first week of being on my own. My husband John had returned to work. It's early morning, and I'm standing in the kitchen making myself breakfast. An overwhelming experience of feeling so humbled washed over me.

I found so much joy in being able to make myself a warm breakfast - and the following reali...