Parents are often stressed and overwhelmed.
By managing and reducing the stressors themselves —
you can create a simpler, less stressful family life.
GAIN AWARENESS
Address your stressors:
Identify your stress triggers
(not just the symptoms)
SIMPLIFY
Determine what changes you can and
cannot make to your routine and
your home and work calendar.
REBUILD
Create routines and gather support
that can help you lead
a more calm and less chaotic life.
Calm your family’s stress
You can uncover the daily routines
that fuel your stress and discover
easier ways to move through the day.
You can change the expectations that
fuel guilt and perfectionism.
You can simplify your life,
be happier and
have a happier family life.
Parents today face so many stressors:
- Spending enough time enjoying their family
- Work schedule – hard to have enough time after work for family
- Parenting challenges
- House chores and laundry
- Finding time for self-care – a nap, reading for pleasure, taking a walk
Parents seek peace.
Yet, have you ever said to yourself?
- “I’m tired of yelling. I just want peace in my home.”
- “I feel like I’m running on empty.”
- “I’m so mad at myself. I’m always rushing to pick up my child.”
- “I love my family, and I love my work. In all the chaos, though, I feel like I’m losing myself.”
You are doing everything you can to hold it all together.
You work hard, care deeply, and still feel like there’s never enough time, energy, or patience.
You love your family, and yet some days being loving is hard.
How can you find peace?
How can you find relief?
What will help?
I believe calm isn’t found. It’s created.
You can start managing your stressors differently, transforming them if need be.
The Serenity Prayer is the guide that I encourage parents to use as they work to change their lives.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference.
You may already be doing the work of managing your stress in a healthier way.
If you have participated in a MBSR program, (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction),
you may be wondering what’s next or what else you can do to help yourself.
It may be helpful, to manage your stressors differently.
Simplifying your busy family life is about reducing your family’s stress.
End the Cycle of Overwhelm
Simplify Your Busy Family Life
Reduce Your Family's Stress
Change how you manage your life’s stressors.
Because stress management isn’t just about how you’re coping.
Once you have begun identifying your stress triggers, you can start managing your stressors differently.
You can interrupt your “overwhelm cycle.”
Find Your Peace
- Address your stressors
- Create a plan that will minimize the stress by managing your stressors
- Work the plan
You can learn new ways to alleviate stress. You can create a more calm life for yourself and for your family.
You can feel better. You can be happier. And your family can be happier, too.
Want to learn more?