What do you go to when you feel stressed or just need to relax? This past week, I had a moment where I realized… wow, I’ve been way more stressed than I thought 😅And funny enough, trying to force myself to relax just made me feel more tense. Then something unexpected happened. I started working on a tracker for our upcoming challenge, and when I shut my computer off, I noticed I felt totally calm. Being in my creative zone relaxed me more than wax melts, playing solitaire, or even reading—and I love reading 🤦🏽‍♀️ It reminded me that real relaxation isn’t always what we think it should be. So I’m curious 👇 What actually works for you? What makes your body relax so much that time just flies by? Drop it below 💜

Hi Mamas! 🌸 I hope you each have a great weekend. As you think about and plan your own personal fun time also take time for family. We tend to feel guilty taking time to do our own creative activities because we feel it takes away from what we do for our families. What if our families helped us have time to ourselves? I am learning that when I whole heartedly give my attention to family fun activities the easier it is for me to carve out my time that my family respects. I have less interruptions which takes some getting used to. And you know what this helps reduce that guilty feeling. Have you found this to be true with your family? What do you do to get some uninterrupted time? Have a blessed weekend ladies💜

Hey mama 💜 Quick question… because we’ve all been there. When your kids were little and you just needed a few minutes to breathe, what did you do? Did you hide in the bathroom? Put yourself in a “time-out”? Turn on a show and sit very still? 😅 No judgment. No shame. Only real-life mom tricks. Share your best (or funniest) way you got a few quiet minutes. Your idea might help another mama survive today 😂

Hi Hilda welcome in. We are glad that you have joined us. @Hilda Lucius

Hey Mama🌸 Let me remind you of something real quick. Just because your creative routine doesn’t look like the perfectly planned, aesthetic routines you see online doesn’t mean it’s not working. Some of the strongest routines are messy on purpose. The kind you do with kids awake, in 15 minute pockets, with interruptions and noise in the background. Because those are the routines you actually stick with. If we want creativity to be part of our real lives, we have to stop forcing it into a rigid box. It has to flex with the day. Trust me, I’ve made changes to my own routine recently, and keeping up with it has not been easy. This year is all about consistency for me, so I’ve been trying to protect my evenings for creative fun. And then life does what life does. Things pop up. Plans get shifted. As a recovering, and still very much struggling, perfectionist, I have to keep reminding myself that I don’t need a big, uninterrupted chunk of time. A few minutes still count. Doing something is always better than doing nothing. So mama, remember this. Alignment with your goals beats perfection every single time. You’ve got this 💜