レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 12月15日 02時21分
Just put a very cranky baby down for her nap after a morning of hearing “NO” so many times my brain is totally fried. No to breakfast, no to getting dressed, no to going outside, no to watching peppa pig(!!), no to playing with the dogs, no to baking, no to coloring, no to reading a book, just no no no no no. After a while she even started saying no to the things she actually wanted (I ask “do you want some blueberries? and she says “NO!!” as she reaches for the bowl)? Man.
Normally after putting her down I open my computer and get to work, but now I grabbed this book that I’ve been dying to read, put on a bathing suit and laid down by the pool. This, this right here, is what slowing down and taking time off means to me. It’s not putting everything away - it’s giving myself the space to choose. I really love to work. Sometimes it’s exhausting. I really love to be a mom. Sometimes that’s exhausting, too.
In today’s episode of the podcast I talk about “work-life balance” and if there really is such a thing when work is your life and your life is your work. I talk about listening to my intuition and learning how to give less fucks about what the world thinks of me. I talk about my inner wild woman, and how life is much easier, and more exciting, when I let her take up space. And I talk about raising my daughter to feel confident enough to be exactly who she wants to be in a world that tells her everything but. It’s not easy! I’m conditioned to believe my appearance is the most important thing; that I have to be thin and hairless from the waist down and pretty and made up and put together. And if I show up for myself with that kind of expectation, that’s what she’ll see as she grows older. Well. I fucking hate shaving my legs. I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be this perfect idea of what the world says a woman has to be. I feel done, with it all. And slowing down and giving myself this sort of space... It’s bringing me closer to something goddamn amazing.
Well. Tune in if you want to listen. Fingers crossed this baby sleeps for at least two hours so I can really dive into this book. And this pool.
It’s a beautiful day, after all. x
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