Ep20 | When Your Mother's Day Doesn't Look Like a Hallmark Holiday

🙋‍♀️Let’s be real, mama. Not every Mother’s Day feels like a celebration. Some of us are breaking up fights, wiping tears, cleaning up messes, managing meltdowns, or sitting in silence, wondering if anyone even notices us. 😞😭

This episode is for the moms who felt overlooked, under-celebrated, or just plain weary. Whether you’re a special needs mom, foster mom, single mom, or simply in a hard season, we want you to know you matter.

 Deena and Christina get raw and real about the unmet expectations around Mother's Day and  holidays, the lies we believe when we feel unseen, and how to move forward by writing a new story. This is a story where you show up for yourself, where you know your worth, and where you no longer wait for others to validate your value.

 Let’s create a new culture of moms who celebrate oneanother and honor the sacred role of motherhood every day, not just when someone remembers the flowers. 👯👯👯👯

 

🗝️Key Takeaways:

🩷Feeling unseen doesn’t mean you’re unloved

💜 You don’t need permission to celebrate yourself

💛 Unmet expectations often come from unspoken ones

🩷 Your value isn’t defined by what others do or don’t do

💜 You can choose to rewrite the narrative and make it beautiful

💛 How to teach your kids to honor you by modeling it yourself

🩷 You are not alone. You are worthy. You are already enough

  

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