This episode of The Thriving Mompreneur features a conversation between host Liz Kent and guest Jenna from The Balanced Mom Method podcast. They delve into the challenges of time management for mothers, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, setting boundaries, and identifying personal priorities.
Jenna shares her journey through postpartum struggles and how prayer and meditation helped her reconnect with herself. They discuss the impact of overstimulation from online life and offer practical tips like taking intentional time offline and auditing daily activities.
The conversation highlights the need for grace, self-compassion, and the power of understanding one's core values to manage time effectively and find joy in motherhood.
Key Takeaways
Prioritize Self-Connection: Taking intentional time for stillness, meditation, or prayer is crucial for self-awareness and understanding personal needs.
Identify Your Main Struggle: Pinpointing the primary challenge related to time management is the first step towards finding solutions.
Audit Your Time: Tracking daily activities can reveal time-wasting habits and areas for improvement.
Set Boundaries: Establishing and maintaining boundaries is essential to protect time, energy, and emotional well-being.
Define Your Priorities: Understanding core values and family goals helps in making conscious decisions about commitments.
Embrace Grace and Self-Compassion: Mothers need to be kind to themselves and acknowledge the challenges of motherhood.
The Impact of Overstimulation: Being constantly online can lead to stress and hinder presence. Intentional offline time is vital.
Don't Be Afraid to Ask for and Receive Help: Community and support are important, and it's okay to accept genuine offers of assistance.
Quote from the Episode
"Like my core mission is helping moms come back home to themselves and to, yeah, to love themselves, to trust their inner guidance, to be confident in connecting to themselves on that deeper level that really harnesses that love and trust and just that inner knowing." - Jenna
"Grace is such a good word for it, because we don't give ourselves a lot of grace. And sometimes that means we don't give our families a lot of grace, because we're holding ourselves to high expectations." - Liz Kent
"Identify your number one main struggle. What is your main struggle? If you know you want to use this umbrella of time management, identify that one struggle, what is it? Write it down?" - Jenna
Resources Mentioned
Jenna's website: https://naturallyempoweredliving.com/
Jenna’s podcast: https://naturallyempoweredliving.com/blog/
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