DO GOOD MOTHERS AUTOMATICALLY FEEL GUILT? This is a question I started asking myself when I was so crippled by guilt, I couldn't feel anything else... I felt GUILT on the toilet, GUILT in the shower, GUILT on the phone, GUILT while I was cooking, GUILT while I was cleaning, GUILT while doing the laundry, GUILT while I was working, GUILT at the hairdresser's, GUILT at the grocery store... I felt nothing but NON-STOP GUILT all day long... I read that in our society, it is assumed that "good mothers automatically feel guilt"... And so I started wondering... "In order to be a good mother, do we necessarily have to feel guilt?!" Moreover, is all this guilt actually making me a "good mother", or it is doing the opposite? I realized that this guilt was making me emotionally detached. It was making me suffer... It was making me emotionally unavailable to my children, my husband, and my work... Guilt was ruining my life. If I could only free myself from all this guilt, then I could be the mother that I wanted to be: I could start having FUN with my kids... I could truly ENJOY the time I was spending with them... I could ENJOY my "me time"... I could FOCUS on my work... I could be emotionally FREE... And so I set off on my journey to free myself from mother guilt... I identified nine types of mother guilt, and figured out how to free myself from each one of them... Guilt does not make us "good mothers"... It makes us suffering mothers... It makes us emotionally detached mothers... It puts us in an emotional hell that doesn't allow us to properly cope with our lives... It is being FREE from guilt that allows us to be the mothers that we want to be! Let me know if you'd like to help you free yourself from guilt in my 1-on-1 coaching program! Mothers don't have to feel ANY guilt at all! We CAN be emotionally free! <3 To your Happy Mother Life,
Marni Penner
A Kanadai Coach :)