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ASNormal mom life shouldn’t feel this overwhelming… but it does.
I kept having this thought… why does this feel so hard when nothing’s even happening?
Like maybe I just needed to be calmer… or handle it better somehow.
But what I didn’t see was how much my body was already holding.
My nervous system never had a chance to come down, so of course everything felt like a lot. And when I stayed in that state, my kids felt it too. Not because I was doing anything wrong, but because they were responding to me… to the pace, the tension, the energy I didn’t even realize I was holding.
That changed everything. I stopped focusing so much on fixing behavior and started paying attention to how I felt in my own body. I started dimming the lights earlier, slowing the pace of the evening, opening a window, letting things feel a little quieter instead of pushing through one more thing. Not because anyone suddenly started listening better, but because the environment shifted. The lights soften, the pace slows, voices get quieter… and something in the room just settles. Kids don’t calm down because we tell them to. Their nervous systems are still learning how, so they borrow cues from what’s around them… especially from us.
Nothing dramatic… just creating more space for my body to settle, even if everything didn’t get done. And when I did, they did too. That’s when it really clicked for me… they don’t calm down first… they borrow your nervous system.
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