What Makes A Happy Mom? Are You Happy?

Mothers come and go, we rush around our day taking kids here

, dropping them off there, then picking them up again. We run errands and see to most of the household chores and activities. We are busy! We do all of this out of love, and yes, a certain degree of obligation. We may even have time to squeeze in a few items that we actually want to do, like a pedicure or a movie out with girlfriends. But the reality is, we are busy, our days and our lives are full.

My questions is, does this full, busy life equal happiness? Are you happy as a mother, as a woman? Have you ever taken the time to ask yourself this?

I believe that many of us confuse business with happiness. If we are doing then we don't have to focus on being. Happiness, contentment, satisfaction, fulfillment, peace are all states of being. In our fast paced, competitive society where is the time to just be?

True happiness stems from within, not from without. We must turn into ourselves and develop our inner peace and harmony in order to feel happy and content regardless of outside situations. We need to nourish our minds and souls first and learn how to find our center through thoughts and feelings in order to express on the outside what and who we are in the inside.

Mothers, in their quest to care for and look after their families needs, may easily overlook this need in themselves, may not even realize it is indeed a need and the way to true, lasting happiness. Mothers are known to be sacrificial and granted, motherhood does require sacrifice and is full of responsibility and obligation to others. But what is too readily overlooked is the mother's own needs, wants and desires. It just becomes too convenient to dismiss a mother's, a woman's, pursuits to happiness in lieu of her family's.

So again my question is, are you as a mother truly happy or are you mistaking your full life for happiness? Do you think you are happy because your days are full of doing rather than making room for the essential balance of being as well? I would encourage you to ponder this idea and ask yourself the hard question of whether or not your happiness stems from within or is dependent on outside sources.

What Makes A Happy Mom? Are You Happy?

By: Tanna Phares

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