Mother’s Day Comfort Wisdom
Wishing you a wonderful and comforting Mother’s Day.
Teach your children how to make you feel special and loved.
Comfort Instructions: Your life is teaching them everyday. They learn gratefulness and appreciation when you show them how to make you feel loved on Mother’s Day.
Comfort by Knowing: Do your children know your favorite color, fragrance, and food? When you share your favorites they learn mom is an unique and interesting individual.
I was visiting a dear friend when her little boy took me aside and whispered in my ear, “I have to tell you a secret about my mommy.” I was just thinking “uh-oh” when he looked straight into my eyes and delivered his important information, “My mommy really loooooves candles and flowers.”
So let them know what you loooove by filling in this list.
Comfort by Doing: Enjoy a day of comforting rest. Give them this opportunity to show thanks for all you do for them each day. List the projects they can do for you by filling out this idea list.
Comfort by Showing: Touch is an important way our children know we love them. Today mom, you get the comforting touch. Suggest a neck or back massage, let them brush and style your hair, give a hand massage or paint your nails.
Before Mother’s Day:
DO …Fill out your lists and share them with your children. Leave craft items; card paper, markers, and cut outs and tell them you want them to design a special card for you. Remind them to make reservations if eating out is in the plans. Mother’s Day is the busiest restaurant day of the year.
DON’T … Expect them to read your mind, be organized, or be anything but children (unless they’re over 20 and then you may still have to adjust your expectations.)
Happy Mother’s Day!
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by Jeanelle on April 2012
Today I woke up dragging. I laid in bed and felt kinda empty and gray. I remember reading about a reporter that was interviewed about his depression and he called it the “gray dog.” He described it like a stray that just keeps wandering back and showing up.
When I am tired I have to be careful that I don’t feed the “gray dog”. Because before I know it the grayness has crept inside and made itself a home. We have all experienced those gray days. They are usually brought on by … life. Yes, life can just wear us out sometimes.
But hold on, look around, and send the gray dog away. Use these simple comfort techniques to embrace your day and find your joy again. ReEnergize yourself. Pay attention to life and give yourself little gifts of comfort all along your day.
1. Comfort your mind: Ok, there has to be something good you can think about. Do it now. Focus on any little bit happiness or joy you have in your life and be thankful for it. Don’t focus on the downer stuff you’re struggling with. Give your brain a vacation from fixing your life.
2. Comfort your body: Listen, and I mean listen, you have to take care of yourself. No one else is going to. Make sure you take your vitamins. Eat a yummy and nutritional snack every two hours and drink 8 glasses of water. Get moving, do some stretches, go for a walk. Take a bath or give yourself a hand massage. Don’t just do stuff with out really paying attention. Be happy you can breathe and absorb the energy of the moment.
3. Comfort your emotions: Are your feelings running your day? Who’s in charge here anyhow? Feelings and emotions are just that … feelings and emotions. They are whistles, yells, and look-at-that, shouts from our daily life experiences and relationships. What we go through every day sets off a parade of hormones, brain chemicals and responses that can make us feel crazy. You have to emotionally sort and do it quick. Keep the ones you want and send the negative emotions and feelings out with the gray dog. It is ok to take a break from the intense stuff. Don’t worry, if you need to work on something it will be back.
4. Comfort your soul: Dear one, we are circular in design … mind, body, emotions and soul. One affects the other. Make sure your emptiness doesn’t start or stop here. Peer into your soul and ask the Comforter to meet you there. Pray, read something inspirational, believe, and feed your soul.
5. Comfort others: Someone else today is chasing away the gray dog too. Think for a moment who in your life might need a phone call, a text, an encouraging or comforting word. You will find strength in the comfort you bring.
6. Take a comfort moment to help your mind and body renew. Tuck yourself into a comfort throw, rest into a silkie pillow and take a deep breathe in slowwwly through your nose. Let the breathe fill you and then slowwwly let it out through your mouth with a comfort sigh. Repeat and release the tension out of your body, relax your shoulders. Think about an enjoyable moment, and reset your mind, body, emotions and soul with comfort.
Do comfort, carry on and embrace the day. ”Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
by Jeanelle on March 2012
“Don’t cut something you can untie.”
Sometimes a phrase comes along just in time to keep you from doing something stupid. These twenty-seven letters lined up in a row and spoke words of wisdom into my heart and probably changed my life.
I was angry, fed up, frustrated, .… done.
Ever felt that way?
Those six words evoked a picture in my mind of my children when they were learning how to tie their shoes. They were trying so hard to get it right, but sometimes the laces would get all wadded up into a knot. The more they pulled the tighter it got.
I could see their little shoulders tightening with frustration and I would say “Relax, its Ok. Just take a little time to work on it slowly, the laces will loosen up and we can start over.” Every once-in-awhile they pulled the laces so hard that it seemed impossible to untie. I was so tempted to just cut the dumb thing, but then they have no shoe to wear.
Hmmm, let’s see no more frustrating knot or no shoe, hmmm.
Is something in a wad in your life? Frustrated and tired of working at it?
Find comfort in knowing life is full of knots, it’s just the way it is.
Learn how to be patient and work at untying things.
Go on a walk, hum, or all right, go ahead and kick something.
Take a run or a bath. Or better yet, wrap up in your Comfort Silkie Throw, pause, relax your shoulders, breathe.
Some of the most precious things in our lives take time and work. It’s ok.
Be wise, don’t cut something you can untie.
