67. Wanna Experience More Joy EVEN IN the Hard of Motherhood? Finding your Identity, Purpose, & Dreams Again Amidst the Sacrifices

We can read all the "what to expect when you're expecting" type books, but nothing can truly prepare us for how hard motherhood is. There is SO much joy and meaning in it, but man it often feels a LOT harder than we thought it'd be.

I know when in the trenches of the hard, the exhaustion, the sacrifices, when our time, our body, our lives are not really our own anymore...it's hard to truly enjoy motherhood because we're just trying to survive how demanding it is.

Though we have so much love for our children, we may even start to feel resentment building over the sacrifices, the disproportionate burdens we're carrying as moms, then feel guilt & shame on top of this.

When everything changes so quickly, and our priorities & lives shift to focus on our babies...many of us may feel like we've lost ourselves, our identity, and who we once were, somewhere in the process of becoming a mother.

Or we've lost our joy, our spark.

Our sense of purpose, both within or outside of being a mom.

I know I felt this way in my first couple years of motherhood, & I felt so alone in it.

So let's talk about it today, and how we can reclaim it, while embracing the noble call motherhood is -- and how God is shaping you into who you're meant to be through it.

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