Becoming a Mum is an experience no woman is completely prepared for – emotionally or mentally. It is possibly one of the most exciting and rewarding times of your life, but we know it can also be daunting because everything is new – including YOU.
Many of us experience an unexpected conflict in modern motherhood. We may feel an intense shift when we lose some of the things that we had full control of before becoming a mum:
Our body, Our identity. Our freedom to be spontaneous....
Even giving up the aesthetics and clothes that previously made us happy and confident. You have this beautiful bundle of bub in your life but maybe you felt a sense of mourning too? A small but niggling sorrow that you’ve lost a sense of yourself? An ache over the loss of the independence you once revelled in? Even anguish that your identity is now lost and the things you worked so hard to reach in that ‘previous’ life were displaced? What a big internal contradiction!
But it’s time that you celebrate you and it’s from little things that big things grow! Don’t trade in the little habits or things you love – that make you happy – just because you are or have become a ‘mum’. Be empowered to still enjoy and wear beautiful apparels if that makes you feel self-assured and confident about YOU. These seemingly small things are often the things that make us a better mum, a better wife, partner and friend.
And do it your way! Don’t buy into all the ‘stuff’ we’re told we need, especially if it makes you feel encumbered, confused or just plain dowdy! (Who invents all this aesthetically unappealing stuff??)
You do it your way; do what makes you feel happy and believing in yourself, because we’re all different and how we each ‘do’ motherhood will also vary. And that’s ok!
And to each other.... Run your own race because we’re all unique and doing our very best on the motherhood journey.
“Children feel neither a past nor future. They enjoy the present, which very few of us do.” — French philosopher Jean De La Bruyere.
It’s time to celebrate ‘doing motherhood’ looking and feeling like ‘YOU.’ No compromises. Join our world of confident women with individuality and style.
Bonnie & Kind