Piecing Them Together While You’re Broken + 4 Ways to Preserve Your Peace

Surfing and scrolling online, I stumbled upon a Facebook post that pretty much jumped out and screamed at me as if I needed to acknowledge it and stop ignoring the obvious.

For at least two and half months…heck who am I kidding – more often than not, I find myself suppressing and ignoring my broken moments because I am trying to be certain that I’m pieced together enough to console and counsel my children in their own broken moments.

“Being a mother while trying to repair yourself mentally and emotionally is the hardest thing to ever take on!”

That’s what I read while scrolling, and instead of breaking down crying in that moment because I am long overdue for a good whaling, I said to myself, my Lord ain’t that the truth.

But, then, I went about my day like I do all of the time when in fact I have thought this (not in those exact words) so many times in my role as a mom.