Melton’s honest, open, brutiful (beautiful+brutal) truths have made me fall in love with her journey, respect my own, and understand how important it is to just show up for others. Read more about the best-selling book from the creator of Momastery.com.
Posts in the "Being Your Own Kind of Perfect" category:
My Top Five Life Lessons from Motherhood: What I Probably Wouldn’t Have Learned Any Other Way
Motherhood has shown me what I don’t know over and over again. But along the way, I’ve also learned a few lessons that spill over onto the rest of my life—lessons I suspect only motherhood could have taught me.
Loving the View: How Perspective Changes Everything
There are days that I am endlessly running, and it helps to consider the view from above. It doesn’t eliminate what needs to be done, but it helps me to remember that my actions do matter.
Disrupt Yourself – Episode 133
In this episode, author of “Disrupt Yourself,” Whitney Johnson, offers powerful ideas for how you can heighten your effectiveness and enjoyment as a mom as you Take the Right Risks, Play to your Distinctive Strengths, Embrace Constraints, and Step Down, Back or Sideways to Grow.
Value-Based Meal Planning: What Are the Best Meals for Your Family?
Every mother brings a unique set of values, circumstances, challenges, and talents to her cooking. At the end of this week, what kind of meal experience do you most want to have built for your family?
My Personal “I Don’t” List
We often make “to-do” lists, but have you ever made a “don’t” list? It’s one tool I’m using to identify what I am choosing not to focus on at this time in my life. And it’s helped me get rid of some of the guilt we carry around as mothers for not being able to do it all.
Power of Moms Pick: This School Year, I’m Cutting Myself Some Slack
Are you feeling excited but also overwhelmed by the new school year? In a recent article entitled “This School Year, I’m Cutting Myself Some Slack,” author Victoria Fedden offers some wisdom to mothers for avoiding getting “manic” in our goal-setting at this time of year.
This Is Enough
Of course, it would be ideal to give our best every single day. But now I know that today’s best is different from yesterday’s best. And some days I’ll admit that I am not even giving my best. But I am still giving. And that is enough.
Reflections of a Failed Tiger Mother – Episode 123
We all go into parenting with certain hopes and expectations for our children. How do we handle it when things don’t turn out as we’d planned? Join Saren and Holly Hamilton-Bleakely, PhD as they discuss how we can figure out our REAL purpose in parenting while helping our children develop into the people they are meant to be.
I’ll Have Kale
Ever since I was first pregnant, I can’t feed my family anything without second guessing myself. Being responsible for another person is often motivation for people to make healthy changes in their lives, but for me it created a slippery slope to a state of anxiety.
Eating My Words
Have you ever judged another mother for doing something, only to find yourself doing the exact same thing later? If you need a good laugh, check out this lighthearted post from Brooke Romney about how she learned not to judge.
How to Fire the Negative Voice in Your Head (and Hire a Positive One!)
There is a voice in my head. And it is mean. It is critical. In the past I’ve tried to change the way I think, but it hasn’t stuck well enough. However, my crazy imagination recently found something that seems to finally be making a difference.
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