In Part 2 of this 8-part series on “Overcoming,” Life, Lemons & LemonDrops hosts, Greer and Whitnie, welcome guest Kristina Campos. Kristina is the founder of The Impactful Parent, an online community linking parents and caregivers with advice and resources to help make the parenting experience less difficult and lonely. Our conversation followed Kristina’s journey of losing and then rediscovering herself.
As a mother of four, Kristina found herself one day with a husband who no longer wanted to be married and having to start life over again. Hear her story and the steps she took to not only get in touch with who she was and would become, but to build a business that served her newly rediscovered identity and her family.
In her own words, Kristina says: I was living my dream. Stay at home mom, married, four kids, and a great teaching job. Things seemed great to me until suddenly my husband told me he wasn't happy. What!? To make matters worse, my children started acting out and my teens were getting increasingly more difficult. Then the bomb- He left. I was devastated. How was I going to do this alone? After many hours (ok- days) of crying in my closet, I had a choice. I could stay crying or I could get up and show my kids their mom's resiliency. I decided on resiliency, however the problem was I didn't recognize myself anymore. I had lived my life for everyone else for so many years that I didn't know who I was anymore. What did I like? What did I want to do?
Listen as Kristina retraces her steps from crying in the closet to living a life filled with happiness along with her four children…and her ex-husband.
If you'd like to learn more about Kristina Campos and The Impactful Parent, or find resources and tools you can use on your parenting journey, visit www.theimpactfulparent.com.
