Posted on Friday, 15th January 2010 by Tera
Almost two years ago, I touched bottom. It finally dawned on me. My round-the-clock fatigue was not simply mommy-tiredness. Sure, it had been a year since I had slept through the night. My babies woke up every few hours–until they reached a year, when they finally slept in their own bedrooms. But this exhaustion sunk deeper than sleep deprivation. A statement rang in my head with force of an epiphany: I am not supposed to feel like this….
That sudden realization started a quest for a lifestyle that allows me to radiate my own God-given brilliance. First, I eliminated diet sodas. Somewhere along the journey of graduate school, mommyhood, and dissertation writing, I became a bonafide caffeine-drinking, diet soda addict. I bought the lie that it got me through the day, the next five pages, and yes, laundry. I embarked on a raw food diet to help me detox from years of chemically-laden choices. The energy I soon felt was astonishing. While I now choose a more balanced diet (the regimen was too all-consuming for me), the raw food experience connected me physically to food as energy.
This blog is dedicated to thriving and inspiring moms who might face similar challenges. Jesus once commanded us, “Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” People often ponder this commandment since it is humanly impossible to be perfect in all things. Yet I submit that we can thrive perfectly. Children, if they are given physical, emotional, and intellectual nourishment, thrive. A beautiful flower thrives if it is given proper nurturing. So the question I ask, “What do you need to do today to move towards thriving?”
Thriving is simply living in integrity with our core values. When we thrive, we are being our authentic selves. We can thrive physically, emotionally, financially, intellectually, and relationally. What area needs your focus today?
As I pondered this question this week, I noticed my energy sank when I thought about my dissertation. I am in the final stages, and I was encountering a block about writing the introduction. It felt hard. I realized that my dissertation-commitment was a form of bondage, a debt of sorts, or commitment that I had made to myself, my spouse, and my family. I could not thrive–in integrity–unless I lived up to that agreement. The costs would be too high. I focused my efforts on increasing my desire and excitement for my dissertation-completion and wrote the necessary affirmations to create my success. As my energy and enthusiasm soared around my dissertation (with much heavenly assistance, I might add), I plugged into the energy of thriving.
I challenge you to increase your efforts and focus in one area and enjoy that blissful energy of thriving.
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