September 4, 2025 • 19 mins
Do you ever feel like motherhood has you stuck in serious mode—managing meltdowns, meals, and messes—while joy takes the backseat? In this episode of Intentional Motherhood, Kelsey Redd, mental health counselor turned stay-at-home mom of four, unpacks why playfulness isn’t optional—it’s essential for your mental health and your family’s connection.
Through a simple story of jumping off the dock with her kids, Kelsey reveals how present, playful moments can:
🌊 Reset your nervous system and shift you out of stress mode
💖 Reconnect you with your own joy and inner child
🌱 Transform family dynamics by modeling presence and “yes” energy
📖 Invite you into deeper reflection through her new Purposeful Living Journal HERE.
Motherhood doesn’t have to feel like constant “no’s,” endless productivity, or autopilot survival. When we choose purposeful play—even just 5 minutes of silliness, barefoot nature time, or role-reversal games—we create moments of alignment that help us and our kids thrive.
👉 Tune in to learn how to bring more play, presence, and purpose into your everyday life with your little ones.
Connect with Kelsey: @creating.intentional.mothers
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Kelsey Redd (00:09):
Hi friends, welcome to Intentional Motherhood, the
podcast for moms who want tofeel more present, more
connected, and more ofthemselves in the middle of
raising a bunch of little ones.I'm your host, Kelsey Redd, a
mental health counselor turnedstay at home mom of four little
kids, here to remind you thatmotherhood isn't meant to be
(00:33):
lived on autopilot. Each week,we'll explore practical tools
for emotional regulation formoms and kids, mindful
parenting, and creating a familyculture of calm and connection.
Through stories from my ownmessy experience with raising my
(00:53):
kids, to evidence basedpractices from my years of
clinical practice, and otherparenting strategies that you
can use right away, my hope isto help you slow down,
rediscover your joy, andexperience motherhood as the
sacred adventure it is. So takea deep breath, you're right
(01:14):
where you need to be, let's divein.
I want you to picture this withme. The sun is warm on your
back, Your kids are giggling asthey edge closer and closer to
the edge of a dock. And you'relaughing too, fully there. No
(01:36):
phone in hand. No mentalchecklist running through your
head.
Just you, your kids, a lake, andthis moment of joy. To me,
nothing feels more aligned thanthese moments of outdoor
adventure with my kids, wherewe're experiencing joy,
(01:57):
connection, and presence. Andhere's what I've realized. Being
fully present in the play withkids isn't just about letting
your kids play and playing withyour kids. It's really a sacred
reminder to live fully,presently, in the moment so that
(02:21):
you can experience full joy.
As mothers, we deserve to feelplayful, present, alive. This is
what I call thriving. When we dothis, even our kids notice, and
they light up with us too. Thisis how we thrive in motherhood.
(02:42):
So I want to share somethingthat I've been working on with
you today.
I created a little journal formoms just like us called the
Purposeful Living Journal, andinside are prompts that help us
slow down and reflect so that wecan bring intention back into
our everyday lives with ourkids. And of course, you can
(03:05):
grab this journal from the shownotes below or at my link in bio
on Instagram atcreating.intentional.mothers or
at my link tree, just linktr.eekelsiered. So let me tell
you a little bit about thisjournal. So for example, one of
(03:25):
the first prompts asks, Whatmoment with my kids this week
made me feel truly present? Andhow can I create more of those
moments?
For me, one of those moments wasthis moment I'm describing at a
little lake near my house on adock with my kids jumping into
(03:47):
the water together. I wasfeeling playful, I was feeling
free and connected. Typically, Imight just sit on the edge and
let them go play, but this timeI thought, I want my kids to
have memories of me playing withthem. I want to be the mom that
jumps off the dock with them. Iwant to be the mom that we have
(04:10):
memories of laughing togetherand playing together.
So I decided to play with them.I decided to jump off the dock
with them. And you know what?They loved it. And I loved it.
I felt playful. I felt silly andfree. And even though it wasn't
(04:31):
a big vacation or somethinghuge, it made me feel alive. And
that is shared, that energy isshared between us and our kids.
And the ability to be present inthe ordinary is what makes the
difference between burnout andagain, that thriving, that
(04:55):
present purposeful living withour kids.
So let me turn the question backaround to you. What has been
your playful moment? What hasbeen your present moment? Maybe
it was just being silly at homedoing a little dance party in
the kitchen. Maybe it waschasing your toddler through the
(05:15):
grass when they're just so inawe and you're seeping up that
awe energy with them.
Or maybe it hasn't happened yetthis week. And that's okay too,
because this is your invitationto create it. To give yourself
permission to set other thingsaside and create the presence.
(05:37):
We create presence by allowingourselves to single task. I
think so often the ability tomultitask is like lauded as a
virtue and a skill and a talentthat we should be engaging in
all the time.
But actually, think it is moredifficult in this day and age to
(06:02):
single task. But that's a topicfor a whole another episode and
we'll get to that later. Butlet's talk about why this
playfulness really matters.Playfulness isn't just for fun,
although it is, but it actuallyis really essential to our
mental health as moms. Becausethe thing is that playfulness is
(06:23):
not just a luxury, it really isa lifeline.
When we laugh, when we arechasing and splashing and
playing, we're not justentertaining our kids. We are
actually giving ourselves anervous system reset. And you
guys know I'm all about nervoussystem regulation in this
podcast. Play brings us out ofthe survival mode, out of the
(06:49):
sympathetic nervous system wherewe're kind of almost always
getting ready to respond to athreat. It brings us into the
safety mode because think aboutthis, you can't play when you're
endangered, right?
When we are stuck in stressresponses, we're not going be
playing. We're not going to letloose and let our guard down and
(07:12):
just engage in play. We're goingto be on edge. We're going to be
vigilant about what threatsmight come up. So when we allow
ourselves to put all that asideto recognize I am safe, and
therefore I can play, that's howit's resetting our nervous
system.
So it's calming our stressresponse. It softens our edges.
(07:36):
I don't know if there are anyother moms out there who kind of
constantly feel like we'repolicing all the time. Like I
sometimes think, man, I justwould love to stop saying no, or
to stop saying, Don't do this,don't do that, put him down,
don't make a mess. I would loveto just not have that be the
(07:57):
only thing that my kids everhear me say and think that
that's the only way I talk tothem.
But this play, this present playwith our kids, it softens that.
It allows us to engage with ourkids in a yes attitude. And it
helps us to feel grounded again.So it's not just only good for
us and our nervous system reset,but it's so good for our kids
(08:21):
and our relationship with ourkids. Because when we are
regulated, we can show up forthem with patience and presence
and warmth, that yes attitude.
But there's another layer toothat I want to talk about, and
that is how play reconnects uswith our own inner child. I've
(08:44):
been known to say that parentingis a time for us to actually
learn how to reparent ourselves.And there is a part of us, that
inner child, that little girlwithin us that still longs to be
silly and creative andspontaneous and free. Motherhood
(09:05):
can pile on so manyresponsibilities, pressures.
Sometimes we feel like we haveto be perfect that we sometimes
just forget about that innerchild within us.
But when we play with our kids,we reclaim it just a little bit.
It's so healing. It's likemedicine for your soul. And
(09:29):
really, it's where joy lies. Sothat's another one of those
journal prompts is how doesplayfulness with my kid, my kids
help me reconnect with my ownjoy?
I love this question because itinvites us to see play, not as
(09:50):
just one more thing on our to dolist for our kids, but as
something that actuallynourishes us. It kind of
reframes play as being a morepurposeful act, a practice that
restores our mental health,grounds us in the present
moment, and brings us back toour ourselves, our inner child.
(10:14):
So maybe the next step in yourmotherhood journey isn't just
about reading another parentingbook or trying to organize your
schedule perfectly. Maybe it'sactually a time to set back, a
time to let go of some of thelogistics and managing and
(10:34):
responsibilities and just playlike a kid with your kids. Maybe
it's cannonballing into the poolthe next time you go swimming
instead of saying I gotta keepmy hair dry because I got stuff
to do after this.
Maybe it's making funny animalnoises with your kid. For me
tonight, it was getting downinto the gravel under my
(10:54):
trampoline and doing dump truckswith my son instead of thinking,
Oh, now I'm noticing all theweeds I need to be picking right
here. I put that aside and said,Let me just play with you. Let
me say yes to your ideas. Let mesay yes to your play.
Let me just get here on theground with you. Maybe it's just
(11:15):
tossing your baby in the air andwatching your baby giggle and
giggling with them because thatis so special. Unfortunately, I
feel like a lot of times we getinto this mentality of I have to
work to earn my rest or my valueeven. But this helps us to
(11:39):
remember that joy is not alwayssomething that we have to earn
only when the work is done.Sometimes the joy is in the
work, and play is part of thatpath.
So this week I want to leave youwith a couple ideas. Maybe some
purposeful play can look likefive minutes of silliness,
(12:01):
whether it's just engaging inyour kids' play, letting them be
silly and going along with theirjokes, dancing in the kitchen,
whatever it might be. Fiveminutes of just letting go of
everything else and being sillyand playful with them. Of
course, you know I'm going tosuggest nature time, nature
play, walking barefoot in thegrass with your kids, maybe
(12:24):
collecting rocks or leaves, orsitting outside and laying down
and looking at the clouds. Meand my kids did this the other
day, and I thought it was themost amazing thing in the world,
mostly because I don't thinkI've done it in a few decades.
And it reminded me that, ohyeah, this is like one of those
things, like thosequintessential things that you
see people doing back in the daythat never happens anymore. And
(12:47):
why not? Because we're always sobusy, because we're always doing
something else, because we'realways rushing from one thing to
the next. And I was like, Man, Igotta make this a more regular
part of my life. Another funidea is the Role Reversal Play.
And this is where you let yourchild be the parent and you play
the kid. This is hilarious, mykids love this when I say I'm
(13:09):
gonna be the kid. Sometimes Ican also slip in some little
lessons about like, Oh, youdon't like it when I just sit
here and complain? Maybe I feelthat way too. But typically it
brings a lot of laughter out,which is fun.
Otherwise, we're just talkingabout little micro moments where
the phone is put down, you justare engaged with your kid in
(13:31):
just a shared giggle or a littletickle fight. Do your kids ever
come up to you and try to tickleyou and you kind of just push
them off because you're busy?What if just for five seconds
you just turned to them andtickled them back and just
engaged in that moment for justtwo seconds longer before you
say, okay, I gotta get back tomaking dinner, honey. You know,
(13:51):
like, can we just engage withthese moments when they bid for
our attention? Something likethis can really shift to the
whole atmosphere of your day,especially for highly sensitive
kids who need that attention andthat affection.
The point really isn't how bigor planned out the moment is.
It's really just that you arefully there, fully present. Kids
(14:15):
don't need perfect activitiesall the time. They just need
you. Alive, engaged, and joyful.
I worry that there are a lot ofmoms out there, and myself
included, that because of thechallenge of motherhood are
(14:36):
typically more in a negativeenergy. And as often as we can,
let's turn that around andengage with joyful yes energy
with our kids that shifts theatmosphere, the energy of the
home so much. And here's onemore deeper layer to consider.
(14:58):
If we are able to give ourselvespermission to play, we also give
ourselves permission to releasesome old and heavy negative
beliefs or stories such as Ihave to be productive to be
valuable. That's one that I havestruggled with probably my whole
(15:19):
life.
I'm working so hard to learn howto disconnect my worth and my
value from productivity andefficiency and, you know,
whatever it might be. But to beable to just let go of this
feeling of I always have to bedoing something in order to be
valuable and to earn my joywould be really good for a lot
(15:42):
of us moms. And the next one is,I always have to get everything
right to be a good mom. Maybe weneed to release those
expectations about motherhood tobe able to feel more free. My
friends, you don't have to be aperfect mom.
And you don't have to beendlessly patient or endlessly
(16:04):
productive. You're doing enough.You are enough just as you are.
And purposeful playfulness canremind us of that. It grounds us
in the joy, in the love, and inthe truth that presence matters
more than performance.
So as we move into this nextweek, I just want to leave you
(16:26):
with these couple invitations toreflect on. And feel free to go
into the show notes and grab mypurposeful living journal. In
the meantime, reflect on thesequestions. Can you notice your
joyful present moments? When doyou feel most present and
(16:47):
aligned with your kids?
Write it down, share it withsomeone, reflect on it in your
journal, and then ask yourself,how can I create more of these
moments? And my secondinvitation for you is to choose
purposeful play. Not as anothertask that you're going to write
on your to do list that you haveto do today, but as a gift for
(17:11):
yourself and for your kids.Remember that this isn't
something you have to earn andit's not something more to do.
It's just something that you canchange your approach in the
moment.
Can change your energy in themoment to become a nourishing,
grounding, nervous system resetfor yourself. Thriving in
(17:34):
motherhood doesn't mean that wehave it all together. It means
that we feel alive and engagedin the moments, the little
moments that really matters themost. It means that we can laugh
and play and be silly with ourkids, because we can remember
that we're more than just theroles that we carry, the
(17:55):
homemaker, the meal planner, theperson handling all the
logistics. But you are a womanwho was created for joy and
connection.
Feminine energy is meant to besoft, and emotional and loving,
not always hustling and workingand earning. I really appreciate
(18:17):
you spending a little bit oftime with me today. And if you
would like to go deeper withthese questions, check out the
Purposeful Living Journal. Itwas created for moms just like
you and me, who want to livewith more presence, more
playfulness and purpose. And itwill be linked on the show notes
or you can find it on myInstagram link in bio creating.
(18:39):
Intentional. Mothers onInstagram, or you can even just
find it on my Linktree atlinktr.eekelsierd. All of my
handouts that I've created foryou are available there. Until
next time, remember, you aredoing an amazing job. I'll see
(19:00):
you next time on IntentionalMotherhood.
Hi friends, welcome to Intentional Motherhood, the
podcast for moms who want tofeel more present, more
connected, and more ofthemselves in the middle of
raising a bunch of little ones.I'm your host, Kelsey Redd, a
mental health counselor turnedstay at home mom of four little
kids, here to remind you thatmotherhood isn't meant to be
(00:33):
lived on autopilot. Each week,we'll explore practical tools
for emotional regulation formoms and kids, mindful
parenting, and creating a familyculture of calm and connection.
Through stories from my ownmessy experience with raising my
(00:53):
kids, to evidence basedpractices from my years of
clinical practice, and otherparenting strategies that you
can use right away, my hope isto help you slow down,
rediscover your joy, andexperience motherhood as the
sacred adventure it is. So takea deep breath, you're right
(01:14):
where you need to be, let's divein.
I want you to picture this withme. The sun is warm on your
back, Your kids are giggling asthey edge closer and closer to
the edge of a dock. And you'relaughing too, fully there. No
(01:36):
phone in hand. No mentalchecklist running through your
head.
Just you, your kids, a lake, andthis moment of joy. To me,
nothing feels more aligned thanthese moments of outdoor
adventure with my kids, wherewe're experiencing joy,
(01:57):
connection, and presence. Andhere's what I've realized. Being
fully present in the play withkids isn't just about letting
your kids play and playing withyour kids. It's really a sacred
reminder to live fully,presently, in the moment so that
(02:21):
you can experience full joy.
As mothers, we deserve to feelplayful, present, alive. This is
what I call thriving. When we dothis, even our kids notice, and
they light up with us too. Thisis how we thrive in motherhood.
(02:42):
So I want to share somethingthat I've been working on with
you today.
I created a little journal formoms just like us called the
Purposeful Living Journal, andinside are prompts that help us
slow down and reflect so that wecan bring intention back into
our everyday lives with ourkids. And of course, you can
(03:05):
grab this journal from the shownotes below or at my link in bio
on Instagram atcreating.intentional.mothers or
at my link tree, just linktr.eekelsiered. So let me tell
you a little bit about thisjournal. So for example, one of
(03:25):
the first prompts asks, Whatmoment with my kids this week
made me feel truly present? Andhow can I create more of those
moments?
For me, one of those moments wasthis moment I'm describing at a
little lake near my house on adock with my kids jumping into
(03:47):
the water together. I wasfeeling playful, I was feeling
free and connected. Typically, Imight just sit on the edge and
let them go play, but this timeI thought, I want my kids to
have memories of me playing withthem. I want to be the mom that
jumps off the dock with them. Iwant to be the mom that we have
(04:10):
memories of laughing togetherand playing together.
So I decided to play with them.I decided to jump off the dock
with them. And you know what?They loved it. And I loved it.
I felt playful. I felt silly andfree. And even though it wasn't
(04:31):
a big vacation or somethinghuge, it made me feel alive. And
that is shared, that energy isshared between us and our kids.
And the ability to be present inthe ordinary is what makes the
difference between burnout andagain, that thriving, that
(04:55):
present purposeful living withour kids.
So let me turn the question backaround to you. What has been
your playful moment? What hasbeen your present moment? Maybe
it was just being silly at homedoing a little dance party in
the kitchen. Maybe it waschasing your toddler through the
(05:15):
grass when they're just so inawe and you're seeping up that
awe energy with them.
Or maybe it hasn't happened yetthis week. And that's okay too,
because this is your invitationto create it. To give yourself
permission to set other thingsaside and create the presence.
(05:37):
We create presence by allowingourselves to single task. I
think so often the ability tomultitask is like lauded as a
virtue and a skill and a talentthat we should be engaging in
all the time.
But actually, think it is moredifficult in this day and age to
(06:02):
single task. But that's a topicfor a whole another episode and
we'll get to that later. Butlet's talk about why this
playfulness really matters.Playfulness isn't just for fun,
although it is, but it actuallyis really essential to our
mental health as moms. Becausethe thing is that playfulness is
(06:23):
not just a luxury, it really isa lifeline.
When we laugh, when we arechasing and splashing and
playing, we're not justentertaining our kids. We are
actually giving ourselves anervous system reset. And you
guys know I'm all about nervoussystem regulation in this
podcast. Play brings us out ofthe survival mode, out of the
(06:49):
sympathetic nervous system wherewe're kind of almost always
getting ready to respond to athreat. It brings us into the
safety mode because think aboutthis, you can't play when you're
endangered, right?
When we are stuck in stressresponses, we're not going be
playing. We're not going to letloose and let our guard down and
(07:12):
just engage in play. We're goingto be on edge. We're going to be
vigilant about what threatsmight come up. So when we allow
ourselves to put all that asideto recognize I am safe, and
therefore I can play, that's howit's resetting our nervous
system.
So it's calming our stressresponse. It softens our edges.
(07:36):
I don't know if there are anyother moms out there who kind of
constantly feel like we'repolicing all the time. Like I
sometimes think, man, I justwould love to stop saying no, or
to stop saying, Don't do this,don't do that, put him down,
don't make a mess. I would loveto just not have that be the
(07:57):
only thing that my kids everhear me say and think that
that's the only way I talk tothem.
But this play, this present playwith our kids, it softens that.
It allows us to engage with ourkids in a yes attitude. And it
helps us to feel grounded again.So it's not just only good for
us and our nervous system reset,but it's so good for our kids
(08:21):
and our relationship with ourkids. Because when we are
regulated, we can show up forthem with patience and presence
and warmth, that yes attitude.
But there's another layer toothat I want to talk about, and
that is how play reconnects uswith our own inner child. I've
(08:44):
been known to say that parentingis a time for us to actually
learn how to reparent ourselves.And there is a part of us, that
inner child, that little girlwithin us that still longs to be
silly and creative andspontaneous and free. Motherhood
(09:05):
can pile on so manyresponsibilities, pressures.
Sometimes we feel like we haveto be perfect that we sometimes
just forget about that innerchild within us.
But when we play with our kids,we reclaim it just a little bit.
It's so healing. It's likemedicine for your soul. And
(09:29):
really, it's where joy lies. Sothat's another one of those
journal prompts is how doesplayfulness with my kid, my kids
help me reconnect with my ownjoy?
I love this question because itinvites us to see play, not as
(09:50):
just one more thing on our to dolist for our kids, but as
something that actuallynourishes us. It kind of
reframes play as being a morepurposeful act, a practice that
restores our mental health,grounds us in the present
moment, and brings us back toour ourselves, our inner child.
(10:14):
So maybe the next step in yourmotherhood journey isn't just
about reading another parentingbook or trying to organize your
schedule perfectly. Maybe it'sactually a time to set back, a
time to let go of some of thelogistics and managing and
(10:34):
responsibilities and just playlike a kid with your kids. Maybe
it's cannonballing into the poolthe next time you go swimming
instead of saying I gotta keepmy hair dry because I got stuff
to do after this.
Maybe it's making funny animalnoises with your kid. For me
tonight, it was getting downinto the gravel under my
(10:54):
trampoline and doing dump truckswith my son instead of thinking,
Oh, now I'm noticing all theweeds I need to be picking right
here. I put that aside and said,Let me just play with you. Let
me say yes to your ideas. Let mesay yes to your play.
Let me just get here on theground with you. Maybe it's just
(11:15):
tossing your baby in the air andwatching your baby giggle and
giggling with them because thatis so special. Unfortunately, I
feel like a lot of times we getinto this mentality of I have to
work to earn my rest or my valueeven. But this helps us to
(11:39):
remember that joy is not alwayssomething that we have to earn
only when the work is done.Sometimes the joy is in the
work, and play is part of thatpath.
So this week I want to leave youwith a couple ideas. Maybe some
purposeful play can look likefive minutes of silliness,
(12:01):
whether it's just engaging inyour kids' play, letting them be
silly and going along with theirjokes, dancing in the kitchen,
whatever it might be. Fiveminutes of just letting go of
everything else and being sillyand playful with them. Of
course, you know I'm going tosuggest nature time, nature
play, walking barefoot in thegrass with your kids, maybe
(12:24):
collecting rocks or leaves, orsitting outside and laying down
and looking at the clouds. Meand my kids did this the other
day, and I thought it was themost amazing thing in the world,
mostly because I don't thinkI've done it in a few decades.
And it reminded me that, ohyeah, this is like one of those
things, like thosequintessential things that you
see people doing back in the daythat never happens anymore. And
(12:47):
why not? Because we're always sobusy, because we're always doing
something else, because we'realways rushing from one thing to
the next. And I was like, Man, Igotta make this a more regular
part of my life. Another funidea is the Role Reversal Play.
And this is where you let yourchild be the parent and you play
the kid. This is hilarious, mykids love this when I say I'm
(13:09):
gonna be the kid. Sometimes Ican also slip in some little
lessons about like, Oh, youdon't like it when I just sit
here and complain? Maybe I feelthat way too. But typically it
brings a lot of laughter out,which is fun.
Otherwise, we're just talkingabout little micro moments where
the phone is put down, you justare engaged with your kid in
(13:31):
just a shared giggle or a littletickle fight. Do your kids ever
come up to you and try to tickleyou and you kind of just push
them off because you're busy?What if just for five seconds
you just turned to them andtickled them back and just
engaged in that moment for justtwo seconds longer before you
say, okay, I gotta get back tomaking dinner, honey. You know,
(13:51):
like, can we just engage withthese moments when they bid for
our attention? Something likethis can really shift to the
whole atmosphere of your day,especially for highly sensitive
kids who need that attention andthat affection.
The point really isn't how bigor planned out the moment is.
It's really just that you arefully there, fully present. Kids
(14:15):
don't need perfect activitiesall the time. They just need
you. Alive, engaged, and joyful.
I worry that there are a lot ofmoms out there, and myself
included, that because of thechallenge of motherhood are
(14:36):
typically more in a negativeenergy. And as often as we can,
let's turn that around andengage with joyful yes energy
with our kids that shifts theatmosphere, the energy of the
home so much. And here's onemore deeper layer to consider.
(14:58):
If we are able to give ourselvespermission to play, we also give
ourselves permission to releasesome old and heavy negative
beliefs or stories such as Ihave to be productive to be
valuable. That's one that I havestruggled with probably my whole
(15:19):
life.
I'm working so hard to learn howto disconnect my worth and my
value from productivity andefficiency and, you know,
whatever it might be. But to beable to just let go of this
feeling of I always have to bedoing something in order to be
valuable and to earn my joywould be really good for a lot
(15:42):
of us moms. And the next one is,I always have to get everything
right to be a good mom. Maybe weneed to release those
expectations about motherhood tobe able to feel more free. My
friends, you don't have to be aperfect mom.
And you don't have to beendlessly patient or endlessly
(16:04):
productive. You're doing enough.You are enough just as you are.
And purposeful playfulness canremind us of that. It grounds us
in the joy, in the love, and inthe truth that presence matters
more than performance.
So as we move into this nextweek, I just want to leave you
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with these couple invitations toreflect on. And feel free to go
into the show notes and grab mypurposeful living journal. In
the meantime, reflect on thesequestions. Can you notice your
joyful present moments? When doyou feel most present and
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aligned with your kids?
Write it down, share it withsomeone, reflect on it in your
journal, and then ask yourself,how can I create more of these
moments? And my secondinvitation for you is to choose
purposeful play. Not as anothertask that you're going to write
on your to do list that you haveto do today, but as a gift for
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yourself and for your kids.Remember that this isn't
something you have to earn andit's not something more to do.
It's just something that you canchange your approach in the
moment.
Can change your energy in themoment to become a nourishing,
grounding, nervous system resetfor yourself. Thriving in
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motherhood doesn't mean that wehave it all together. It means
that we feel alive and engagedin the moments, the little
moments that really matters themost. It means that we can laugh
and play and be silly with ourkids, because we can remember
that we're more than just theroles that we carry, the
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homemaker, the meal planner, theperson handling all the
logistics. But you are a womanwho was created for joy and
connection.
Feminine energy is meant to besoft, and emotional and loving,
not always hustling and workingand earning. I really appreciate
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you spending a little bit oftime with me today. And if you
would like to go deeper withthese questions, check out the
Purposeful Living Journal. Itwas created for moms just like
you and me, who want to livewith more presence, more
playfulness and purpose. And itwill be linked on the show notes
or you can find it on myInstagram link in bio creating.
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Intentional. Mothers onInstagram, or you can even just
find it on my Linktree atlinktr.eekelsierd. All of my
handouts that I've created foryou are available there. Until
next time, remember, you aredoing an amazing job. I'll see
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you next time on IntentionalMotherhood.
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