by Sarah Juliusson of www.MamaRenew.ca – Find Mama Renew on Facebook & Twitter
We came across this wonderful blog post from Meghan Rathwell, holistic nutritionist, on the reality of new motherhood and nutrition.
in my past life i was a nutritionist: a shopping, chopping, soaking, fermenting, well-fed nutritionist….i found contentment as a foodie and confidence in practicing what i preached.
but that was my past life. 9 months ago, i became a mama. while pregnant, i imagined that motherhood would further immerse me in the glorious world of REAL food. i would bake bread, and make yogurt while my child played at my feet. my counters would be lined with soaking grains and living sprouts. Instead….the counters are an assortment of pots i’ve burnt, a sippy cup, the old carrots that were once a teething toy, and a pile of pear peelings.
Sound familiar, y’all?
We all have images of what life will look like as a mother, and countless ideals and expectations we hope to live up to. There’s a whole lotta letting go that most of us need to do once we meet the reality of parenthood. How to make peace with the contrast? How to be gentle on ourselves? How to accept that “good” is “good enough”?
You know that feeling when a friend asks you a really good question? One of those questions that reframes something in a new way you hadn’t considered before, gently guiding you to a new place of knowing just through the asking.
I’m going to Mexico with my mom this week. In the past year we have celebrated our 40th and 70th birthdays, and she wisely proposed that we honour this momentous year with a shared adventure.
Have you ever managed to arrange for a glorious outing with dear mama friends and found yourselves just talking about your kids? It seems that when we’re together with other parents we can’t help ourselves. I remember coming home from my first baby playgroup and feeling thrilled to have spent 2 hours talking about cloth diapers.
“When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? 
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