{"id":476,"date":"2012-03-03T03:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.positivelyparenting.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2015-12-04T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T17:29:15","slug":"the-whole-kitchen-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlparentcoach.com\/new\/fear\/the-whole-kitchen-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Kitchen Sink…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My anxiety started, really kicking-my-ass-started, when I was pregnant with my third baby. \u00a0I was feeling uncomfortable with my life, and that discomfort grew into full-tilt anxiety.<\/p>\n

As people who suffer from anxiety know, a point comes where even the persons who love you most (my husband), say “enough. There is nothing left to say here…” and then, you get yourself some help.<\/p>\n

So, after a year and a half if crying and talking, talking and crying, my therapist and I parted ways and I was “better.” \u00a0Which only means that now I have tools, systems, and ways to handle the “voices” that want to make me crazy.<\/p>\n

Why tell you this? \u00a0Well, the anxiety started to come back. \u00a0Except this time, in the form of apathy and full-on fatigue. \u00a0It was like my life was set on one of those really DULL Instagram i-Phone settings…everything covered over with an awful film. \u00a0I don’t talk to people about it because I am supposed to have it together (which I pretend to, all of the time, which is part of the problem…but I digress), and so this is how I went about my days. \u00a0Dulled.<\/p>\n

I would pull myself out of it with some excellent yoga, seeing friends, my clients always inspire me….but….home I went, and boom. \u00a0Dull film.<\/p>\n

Things were amiss. \u00a0Too busy. \u00a0Too crazy. \u00a0Too stressed. \u00a0Too fire-putting-out feeling. \u00a0But it was generalized…I couldn’t see it clearly.<\/p>\n

Last weekend I went to the beach with my three girls (lovely husband traveling away) to see some family. \u00a0My eldest had not brought her homework, as instructed, and then ‘fess’d up to some tall tales she had told during the week. \u00a0I got angry and she cried. \u00a0She said, “I am just so tired. \u00a0I am so stressed.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She is eight.<\/p>\n

And just like that, I understood. \u00a0We needed to quit. \u00a0Quit it all. \u00a0Well, not school…bit everything else, for sure.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I talk to husband on phone Sunday and by Monday we had quit Piano, Hip Hop, Tai Kwon Do, Chorus, and a couple of other little activities that we had going. \u00a0These activities were spread among both the four year old and and eight year old, and my husband said, “Don’t you think this is a little ‘whole kitchen sink-ing it?'”<\/p>\n

Yes, yes it is.<\/p>\n

The driving. \u00a0The dropping off. \u00a0The picking up. \u00a0The homework. \u00a0The not-having-dinner-ready-ever. \u00a0The me-always-on-my-phone-trying-to-work. \u00a0It all<\/strong> had to stop.<\/p>\n

We are free. \u00a0I allowed Ballet to stay, because my eldest said, “I cannot live without dance, Mom” and I believe her. \u00a0And the four year old will do weekend soccer in the Spring. \u00a0But the weekdays? \u00a0They belong to our family again.<\/p>\n

My anxiety has lifted…until it comes back. \u00a0I know it will…it is part of who I am. \u00a0But these small parenting triumphs are just that; triumphant.<\/p>\n

The kids cried, they couldn’t believe Daddy and I would cancel somanyamazingthings<\/em>, but then POOF – they were happy. \u00a0Happier.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it. \u00a0The parent coach. \u00a0Taking her own advice. \u00a0Feels good. \u00a0Will try again. \u00a0Soon.<\/p>\n

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