I sometimes refer to myself as the Jac of All Trades, although it might be more accurate to say Jac of Many Trades. I have healthy zeal for life which tends to boil down to me doing too many things. I write; I cook; I play with my daughter; I do yoga; I play music; I meditate; I volunteer; I teach kids classes; I go for walks. In other words, I want to do everything all the time and that means that I don’t usually get around to doing everything.
In November I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but two days before that all began, I found out I was pregnant. So last month was a mad dash of writing about 1,000-1,667 words a day for a novel I’ve been working on since 2013 (yes, it does have yogic themes!) combined with the incredible fatigue of the first trimester of pregnancy. By 7:00 or 7:30pm I usually found myself on the couch wishing I didn’t already feel like crawling into bed. I’m now 12 weeks pregnant and feeling more energetic as I near my second trimester, but also trying to catch up on the other things I put off in the name of writing for the month of November.
The good news: since joining the Abundant Mama Peace Circle, I’ve been able to take my own advice and do a minimum of five minutes of yoga daily. It doesn’t sound like a huge accomplishment, but it gets to the heart of the deepest, most down-to-earth aspect of yoga: daily devotion. Devotion to your best/highest self, devotion to taking care of yourself to be a better mom and person, and devotion to something bigger than you, whether that’s your family, your community, or higher power.
So, I do apologize for flaking out on my posts here; it is actually so unlike me, but in stepping outside of that idea of ‘me,’ I was able to make that shift into a better ‘me’ that I had a hard time embodying: the yoga mama that embraces five fully present moments on the yoga mat instead of waiting for a full hour to try to recapture the yogi that I was before I became a mom. Cheers to the mom that I became and am constantly evolving into each and every day. And cheers to the moms you all have the potential to be and become every day, too!
Much love to you! You are amazing woman!