How to be fulfilled as a mother

I’ve been a mom for over three years now and a mom blogger for almost that long—and pretty much the whole time, I’ve been thinking about and working toward finding (building) personal fulfillment as a mother. So far, however, my blogging on the subject has been as piecemeal as my personal efforts.

But more and more recently I’ve been thinking about finding a real “path” to fulfillment, a process that works for more people than just me. So as I’ve thought about this, I’ve come up with a few “real” steps:

• learn to be content
• recognize that being a mother is important
• recognize that YOU are meant to be a mother
• reevaluate your expectations
• recognize that mothering is a “real job”
• support and receive some support from other mothers
• throw yourself into your work
• pace yourself
• remember why you came here
• love
• believe
• enjoy your children, enjoy being a mother
• create
• make a difference in your home and in the world

Not every step will apply to every one, of course, and they’re not in any particular order. But I think that some/most/all of these things can help all of us progress to feeling more valued as a mother, and possibly more connected to one another.

I’ll be writing on these topics in the coming weeks. If you have any other ideas or ideas relating to the steps described here, feel free to leave them in the comments or send them to blog (at) mamablogga.com .

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