This Is Needed

One of my coaches asked me yesterday, as I was spinning in mind drama about my business:

Why believing moms?

Why now?

It took me out of my own perceived misery and made me stop.

Made me think.

Why you guys?

Why now?

The answer that came to me is because this is needed.

This work, of slowing our minds down.

Of being intentional with our thoughts.

Of learning to process our emotions, instead of resist avoid or react to them.

Of letting go of shame, guilt, and regret.

Of learning how to be intentional with our lives, of creating instead of reacting.

Of trusting, of letting go.

Of learning to love unconditionally – ourselves and others.

All of this, is so needed.

It’s needed for us, and it’s needed for our kids. It’s needed for our husbands, our friends, for all of the people that we come into contact with.

When I was struggling with depression, that’s when my faith also felt the lowest. I felt that if I continued to struggle with depression, I wouldn’t have been able to still be a believing mom.

Of course, number one is forgiveness.

But I felt that I needed more. I needed to know why I was struggling, and what I could do to not struggle. I needed someone – a professional, a therapist – to talk to, to help me figure out what was going on.

I worried if I went to someone, they would tell me to quit having kids. That they would tell me clearly my religion is off the rocker. I didn’t want to have to defend something that I felt was so weak already. I didn’t want to have to answer uncomfortable questions.

I also knew that my faith wasn’t the problem – that it was how I was dealing with my life that was.

And this is why you, this is why now.

There are too many of us that are struggling in motherhood, and are too ashamed to reach out. Or if we do reach out, they aren’t able to help us fix it. They give advice, or just a shoulder to cry on, but then what?

I have struggled with sharing this, because of fears that it will be taken the wrong way. That it will be taken as I think life coaching is more important, more healing, than faith.

But I am beginning to trust that I’m here for a reason. That you are here for a reason.

I’m beginning to trust that God wouldn’t have made me who I am, He wouldn’t have led me to where I am, if there wasn’t a reason for this.

It is uncomfortable for me to say that I only work with believing moms, because I know that this work is needed across the board.

But I know in my heart, that this is needed here. In our world.

So please – if this is you. If this is someone that you know.

If it’s depression, or if it’s just you are struggling.

Reach out.

This is what I am here for.

You don’t have to struggle anymore.