09/08/2025
What comes to mind when I try to caption this is…
🌊Unexplainable joy to see myself holding my son
🌊Unexplainable exhaustion from 3 weeks of travel from California to Washington
🌊Unforgottable memory making moments from our first big trip as a family
🌊Unforgottable moments of quiet connection with myself as a person, as a mother and as a wife
🌊The Stillness of Motherhood
For those that have known me before I became a mom, they might’ve known that I have a hard time settling into one space for long period of time. I’m not necessarily a person that likes to sit still. Motherhood has changed that in an intense way.
Motherhood has forced me to sit still in many ways, physically, emotionally, and mentally. It is something I did not expect. But it’s teaching me to create space internally and it’s stretching me beyond my expectations. Between emotional regulation to help regulate my son, helping open the world of beauty to him, and also trying to practice self-care, I feel stretched.
I didn’t recognize it until this trip, as I was standing on a beach in Oregon by myself, with my son in my husband‘s arms behind me, I took a deep breath and I felt some semblance of my old self trying to fit into this new skin Im wearing. But my body, my brain and my emotions feel bigger now and that old self still has a place inside, but there’s so much more room for wonder, love and growth. 💖
