relationships — BLOG POSTS

When is it time for therapy?

On episode 184 of The Well Podcast, Kari sits down to chat with mom, pastor’s wife, and mental health therapist, Gianna Reese. Gianna specializes in work with teenagers and adults but provides services across the lifespan. Here is a teaser of the conversation.

Our world today is not without life’s stressors. While we may not be foraging to find our food or worried about a bear attack out in the wilderness, we still have scenarios that put us into fight, flight, or flee responses. Many people assume we are born with the skills needed to deal with life’s stressors, but we are not born with healthy emotional expression, boundary setting, or emotional intelligence tools.

7 Signs You May Have Lost Yourself in Motherhood

Do you feel like you have lost yourself?

Forgot what you used to be like?

Forgot what you used to do all day before you were changing diapers, shuttling kids, making snacks, and overseeing homework?

Motherhood is undoubtedly a gift. While you can enjoy being a mom to your precious children, it’s easy to get so caught up in being a mom that you forget to take care of your needs.

Here are my 7 signs you may have lost yourself in motherhood

Stop Starting Over...Just Keep Going

Start over next month.

Start over Monday.

Start over in the morning.

I want you to know that you’re never truly starting over. You’re continuing tomorrow.

Whether it’s a weight loss goal, parenting a child with a difficult struggle, or pursuing your business dreams.

We get to change our mindset.

Starting over would mean we didn’t learn from what we did the first time.

We’re not starting over, we’re keeping going. But we’re continuing with the knowledge from where we’ve been.

7 Tips to Overcome Overwhelm

October is Mental health awareness month!

We are kicking it off with Kim Harter back on the podcast. Kim is Mental Health Counselor and helps women that are feeling

overwhelmed

exhausted

anxious

depressed

Are you feeling any of those difficult emotions? Maybe you feel like you’re drowning in them. We want you to know you’re not alone.

Motherhood Intentions

How to be a mom in 2023…

“Make sure your children's academic, emotional, psychological, mental, spiritual, physical, nutritional, and social needs are met while being careful not to overstimulate, underestimate, improperly medicate, helicopter, or neglect them in a screen-free, processed food-free, plastic-free, body positive, socially conscious, egalitaritan but also authoritative, nurturing but fostering of independence, gently but not overly permissive, pesticide-free, two-story, multilingual home, preferably in a cul-de-sad with a backyard. Also, don't forget the coconut oil.”

Motherhood is heavy. Even if you’re not normally a “worrier”, motherhood can keep you up at night because there’s just so much weighing on our shoulders.

Maybe we should make our own list for how to be a mom in 2023.

Calm the Chaos in Toxic Relationships

Are toxic relationships wreaking havoc on your hormones and causing anxiety?

Whether it’s summer travel and being around a lot of different people compared to your normal routine, or you have that one relationship in your life that has always been a difficult one and you can’t completely separate yourself from that relationship, I hope to share some helpful insight to work through these toxic relationships. (Notice I said, toxic relationships, not toxic people).

Nothing puts me into a stressful state like managing conflict and tension in relationships. Side note.. this summer, I’m working from home with all our kids home…. did you know that mothers who spend all day with their children produce MORE cortisol (the stress hormone) than 98% of the world's paying professions? Whew.

Are you a control freak?

Do you know this scenario?!? If you are a parent I’m sure you do! The battle of the wills!

I have had the pleasure of giving births to three very strong willed children. They express their desires and ‘non-negotiables” very differently but nonetheless, I have been in this situation MANY, MANY times!

I have also been the little girl. Daily! I have a very strong will. I set expectations about the day or the outcome and I am VERY frustrated when I don’t “get my way”.

You too?

Your kids too?

Your partner too?

Your parents too?

Your “_______________” (fill in the blank) TOO!?!!?!

What do you expect!?!?

Parenting + Kids, Essential OilsKari DavisApril 13, 2020THE WELL TEAMfamily, kids, emotions, control, relationships, marriage, encouragement, fightingComment