Just A Mom Trying

Fall is not just a season—it is a necessary change. The energy has shifted, and the world is finally granting us a reprieve from the constant demands of the past months.

Look around: everything is slowing down. There is a beautiful, required honesty in the way the world moves now. It is a steady, rhythmic cadence—dark, silent, and wonderfully calm. This atmosphere validates the need to retreat.

The Beauty of Shedding

There is a dark, essential magic in this world that is dying and shedding. We watch the trees let go of what no longer serves them, and it reminds us that we must do the same. This season demands an honest inventory of the impossible burdens we carry:

• The Mom Guilt Trap: The feeling that if I’m not constantly doing and serving, I am not worthy. The struggle to relax without feeling utterly lazy because I can’t be everything and do everything at 100%.
• The Overload: The reality of being easily overstimulated, causing my patience to run out. The sheer exhaustion of constantly repeating myself, trying to get my youngest to mind, and fighting the battle of helping hands that keep pushing back.
• The Self-Worth War: The internal pain of struggling with self-love. Hating my own looks, my anger issues, my easy emotions, and the fact that I’m not some outgoing, bubbly goddess who earns massive income. I am a perfectionist who is too tired to do anything but halfway.

Fall asks you to shed the chaos of the past. It invites you to let the deepening shadows of the afternoon quiet your mind, allowing you to focus on the essential truths. The stillness is not empty; it is full of the quiet strength you need to carry you through the months ahead.

Embrace the dark, steady rhythm. It is your time to recharge, reflect, and reclaim the calm core of yourself.

Shedding the Guilt: This Is Not a Quick Fix

This journey of shedding is not a simple, one-time cleaning. You cannot solve a lifetime of trauma, anger, and perfectionism with one good nap. Shedding is a continuous, necessary practice. It requires acknowledging your feelings—your self-hatred, your exhaustion, your anger—and refusing to dismiss them.

The work is done in the small, daily choices: choosing five minutes of self-care over two hours of cleaning. Choosing patience over being overstimulated. Choosing your worth over the imaginary expectation of perfection.

This moment of honesty is the beginning. Now, you choose the rhythm of the season to move forward.

To start your own quiet change, I want you to make one crucial promise to yourself this season.

What is the one thing—the guilt, the obligation, or the impossible standard—that you are choosing to shed this week? Share your answer in the comments. 👇