11/19/2025
In times of chaos where it feels like life is spinning from demands from all areas on top of sleep deprivation, feedings, diapers, laundry, siblings adjusting, their feelings, your feelings, here is a question you can ask yourself to help ground back into your current reality.
“What is required of me in this moment?”
Can we slow down momentarily to actually pause and look around and check in what yourself, your family, your body. There may be so many things that could be done, but what is actually required of you in this exact moment?
Maybe it’s taking 10 deep breaths, maybe it’s putting a show on so you can close your eyes for a few minutes, maybe it’s saying something kind to yourself and acknowledging the overwhelm and all you are holding, maybe it’s finding something nourishing to eat, maybe it’s going outside for some fresh air. Maybe while you are feeding your baby you soak in all of their tiny little perfect features, maybe you have 5 minutes of deep presence to give to your toddler. It could be literally anything depending on your particular circumstance of any moment, any day.
There will always be something that needs doing - but what is actually requires right here and right now?