This is day 3 of my series on the 5 principles for Loving Your Life Now and Stop Being a Guilty, Stressed Out Working Mother.
If you missed the first two days: Yesterday’s post, Get Happier By Creating Personal Boundaries was a tip about honoring yourself by determining what is acceptable to you and what is not.
Monday’s post Stop Trying to Balance Family and Work discussed the need to choose activities that support your core values rather than seeking balance between your work life and your family life.
One of the best ways to working mothers can a have a less stressful life is to ask for help.
Decades ago, mothers were aided by an extended family—mothers, aunts, grandmothers, cousins, neighbors to help them to manage their children and their households. Today, working mothers are trying to do it all alone–with the added demands of making a living.
This brings us to Principle # 3 Build a Personal support system
One of the most stressful calls that you can get is that your child is sick at school. Your main concern is getting to your child’s school as soon as possible—but what would you do if you simply couldn’t make it? You may not be able to just leave work or to walk out of an important meeting. What if you’re a single mother and don’t have a husband you can call? Or you have a husband but he’s not available?—maybe he’s out of town on business.
At home, you’ve worked all day and you’re bone tired. Unfortunately you can’t go to bed—-your kids and your husband are expecting you to cook dinner, wash their clothes and clean-up the house. You are seething because you feel like a maid. You can’t understand why your family can’t see that your tired and pitch and help.
If any of these scenarios sound even vaguely familiar you need to develop a personal support system.
Please consider scheduling a Working Moms StartUP session to help you to de-stress, release the mommy guilt and find more meaning in their lives, please drop me an email at Yvonne@SophisticatedWomanandMama.com
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