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Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Personal Growth

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Personal growth does not end when you become a stay-at-home mom. I know many of you feel that when you stop your career, stay at home, and devote so much time to your family, you begin to stop growing as a woman. Your personal growth matters.

You are still a beautiful, growing individual even though your role at this time is to nurture and care of your family. That being said, there is so much we moms can do to keep growing and enriching ourselves, to encourage our personal growth, even while being focused on being stay-at-home moms.

We can’t do it all today, but we can do a little bit at a time to keep moving forward and grow as not only a mom, but a wife, and woman.

Here are 17 ideas for you to focus on your personal growth.

I do not often feel that I give up myself to be a mom, but I do feel like I have to grow, adapt and change along with what I need to do to be a good mom. Every challenging experience in my life has changed me at my core-why should motherhood be different? Of course caring for another life is going to mold us into a different version of ourselves. We are not losing, but gaining chapters in our personal book of life.

We do not have to give up ourselves to continue growing. We do not have to stop pursuing our interests and reaching for our personal goals just because we have children. Balance is important and often certain tasks or even an entire career may need to be put on pause so we can focus on our families when they are just developing the definition of what family is and is meant to be. BEing present for our children and husbands matters, but so do we.

Personal Growth Resources for Stay-at-Home Moms

 

10 Ways to Challenge Yourself as a Mom from Sand In My Toes

Learning to Take the Long Term View by She Lives Free

7 Habits of Highly Happy Stay at Home Mom – The Well Nourished Nest

7 New Year’s Resolutions Moms Need to Make from Sand In My Toes

My Description of the Perfect Mom {It is not what you think!} – The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide

Releasing the Less Important – The Brown Tribe

Resolutions May Take Time…That’s OK! – The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide

The Unexpected Lesson My Old Robe Taught Me – Compared to Who?

Stop Saying Being A Mom is Hard – Mom’s Mustard Seeds

The Powerful Gift of a Woman with Kind Words – Club 31 Women

 

Love Jesus. Not Cellulite – Compared to Who?

 

Asking for Forgiveness from Our Children – The Brown Tribe

Keeping a Vibrant Spirit in Your Home When Your Body is Bone-Tired – Club 31 Women

5 Habits of Highly Organized People – Organized Home Organized School

Successful People Make Goals – Mama’s Happy Hive

Clothes Make Me Feel Fat, Tips for Getting Shame Out of Your Closet -Compared to Who?

[Mother’s are] The Compass of Values – The Stay-at-Home-Mom Survival Guide

 
The entire Complete Guide can be viewed HERE.

 

 

Successful Mom Daily Checklist to help you gain balance between housework and play time with the kids. Get more done, and feel more successful as a mom and homemaker.

Enjoy your time at home!

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May 4, 2015 by Jaimi Erickson 3 Comments Filed Under: me time, motherhood, motivation Tagged With: personal growth, SAHM, SAHM Guide, self help, self improvement, stay at home mom

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