#62 How Gratitude Changed My Mom Guilt and 5 Easy Gratitude Habits
#62 How Gratitude Changed My Mom Guilt and 5 Easy Gratitude Habits
This past week, we went to the American Farm Bureau Fusion Conference in Jacksonville Florida. It was so nice to get away but I felt more Mom guilt than normal. This combined with the huge chore of packing for a cross county trip with a baby, sort of plagued the whole vacation and it got me thinking about how we can change mom guilt? While I am not sure we can ever totally get rid of it, I know that gratitude has changed mine is a big way.
Adrienne DeSutter said, “Say Yes to help and no to everything else”. So I have begun saying Yes to help, without even thinking about it. It was just an automatic Yes please. Yes please take the baby, yes please prepare a plate for me, yes please get me a drink, yes please to, “do you need anything from the store”.
People genuinely want to help others, LET THEM. Then instead of feeling guilty for accepting help, thank them and move on. When we use gratitude, it switches off our fight or flight response in our brain and helps to re-route blood from the survival mode part of our brain, to our “thrive” portion. Part of this is called our frontal lobe where we process information, emotions and logic.
But a daily gratitude practice isn’t for everyone so here are 5 easy ways to express gratitude
1. Instead of saying what’s up ask, what’s good?
2. Ask for everyone’s “highs and lows” at the dinner table or in the car
3. Take 5 Exercise
4. Trade “I’m sorry” for “thank you”
5. Journal-write it out or talk it out
Sources: https://halo.com/10-amazing-statistics-to-celebrate-national-gratitude-month/#:~:text=In%20a%20study%20of%20800,well%2Dbeing%20by%2010%25
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