I’m going to be honest, I struggle with taking care of myself properly as a stay-at-home mom. Also, when I say focus on yourself, if you’re a stay-at-home mom, I don’t mean don’t take care of your kid. This by no means is saying that I’m going to ignore my kids just because I want to focue on myself. All this means is that I will try to focus on myself before they wake up, during quiet time, and when my husband gets home from work.
This also by no means means that I’m not going to spend time with kids. There’s probably no reason for me to explain myself, but if you’re a Mom reading this, I just wanted to explain that as well, so you’re not trying to focus on yourself all day when that’s almost impossible to do with kids.
The best thing to do is find pockets of time to work on yourself, which is what I plan on doing from here on out. I seriously hope that you’re able to work on this as well. Motherhood is already so hard. Losing the person that you were can be pretty hard, too. But becoming a mother does not mean that you have to stay lost.
Benefits of focusing on yourself (focus on yourself)
There are so many benefits of focusing on yourself. There’s so much importance of focusing on yourself, whether you are a mom or not. Whether you stay at home or go to work. Yes, even if you get a “break” by working, you still need time for yourself. I use break loosely, though.
I feel like focus on yourself gets thrown around a lot by a lot of influencers, but it’s never really explained well, or even how we do it. How do we focus on ourselves? What are some things that we can do to focus on ourselves when we never really done it or if we’ve kind of lost ourselves?
I will get into that a little more in a little while, but what are some of the benefits of focusing on yourself? Well, for starters, you figure out who you are. I feel like when we stop focusing on ourselves, then we kind of stop figuring out who we are to an extent.
Focusing on ourselves will help tremendously with our mental health as well. It will lift our spirits because, for once, we are filling our cup rather than pouring out to other people or other things.
Focusing on yourself will make your confidence explode. All because you are pouring into yourself. It improves your quality of life and will make accomplishing your goals a lot easier as well too. It also helps with staying present in life and being mindful.
Stay at home, mom self-care (focus on yourself)
There are many ways that you can practice self-care as a stay at home mom. I get that in order to do this stuff, you really need to have a support system. Or at least you would need to have a babysitter to be able to do some of it. But there are quite a few things on the list that you can do with your kids there with you. Hopefully, you’re able to accomplish at least a few of these!
- Journaling
- Being active
- Pamper yourself
- Find a hobby
- Set boundaries
- Get enough sleep
- Stay off social media
- Take breaks
- Being mindful
- life-long learning
- Get outside
- Making connections with other moms
How I’m planning on doing this
Thankfully, I have a pretty helpful husband who will let me get the breaks that I need from the kids. I know I need it, especially since I’m a very introverted person who needs to take breaks to recuperate. This is essential for me to be a better mom.
Something that I absolutely need to start pushing is pampering myself, staying off of social media, and setting boundaries. I’m terrible at these things, and it tends to lead me down a road of comparison and also getting taken advantage of by people I think are friends.
At the time I’m writing this post, I will be focusing on these things next year and trying to focus more on myself than paying attention to other people’s lives. We get too invested in other people when we should be focusing on ourselves and our family. Now I just need to figure out a good way to keep myself off of social media, and figure out how I need to set boundaries and with what.
Conclusion on focusing on yourself
No matter who you are or if you’re a parent or not, if you are finding yourself in a bit of a rut, then this post is for you. Depression and anxiety are no joke. You need to take it seriously if you’re going through it. I know it can be hard when you’re in a funk, no matter how big or small.
You deserve the growth, and you deserve the happiness. I just hope that you actually take the time out to do it.
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