How Daily Wellness Habits Can Transform Motherhood
Caring for your own health and wellness is an important foundation in your journey through motherhood. Making sure you have a solid set of daily wellness habits to lean into each day will help you feel more grounded, less stressed, and much happier in general. Sure, this all sounds amazing and like something we want to attain, but how can putting these things into practice actually help change the way we experience motherhood? Let’s take a look at how putting wellness habits into your daily routine can completely transform motherhood.
First of all, when you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’ll have the right tools to use to cope with it. As you start to feel the sensation of overwhelm creeping in, you can rely on your self care and wellness habits to change the way you’re dealing with the situation. Perhaps when you recognize the feeling start to happen in your body, you take a moment to do a brain dump on a piece of paper. From there, you can select just a few of the top priorities for the day and leave the rest for later. This is a tool designed to help you feel calmer and navigate an overwhelming more easily.
Next, daily care practices ensure we aren’t letting stress build up over time. By putting practices into place each day, not only when things feel stressful, we keep our bodies regulated. This way, stressful situations don’t have the opportunity to make our levels increase at an alarming rate because our stress levels are already lower than they might typically be. There are tons of great ways to keep stress at bay like exercise, meditation, listening to music, and even just resting your body. Finding one or two that work great for you and your daily routine will greatly help you over time.
Finally, as you practice daily wellness habits, your kids will be involved in forming habits that help them to regulate themselves by default. Kids are little sponges and notice even the smallest details of what we do on a daily basis. For example, if they see you start to get frazzled when the house is a mess, they are likely to pick up on that reaction and find it to be normal. However, if they see you take small steps toward getting the house back in order in a calm fashion, and even involve them in the process, they will note that as normal instead. The same can be true for when they begin to feel stress or the effects of big feelings. Modeling the tools and strategies to make them feel calmer is a great way to help them learn more about regulating their own levels of stress and overwhelm.
If you’re looking for more ways to add daily wellness habits into your routine, check out our workbook, “A Mom’s Guide to Wellness,” for even more tips and resources.
