Focus

I wonder if you’ve felt like this: your home life is going well, kids happy, partner happy—but then your eating isn’t great. We are killing it in the exercise department and clean eating, but our work life is suffering. Maybe we become hyper-focused in one area, only to lose focus in another.

It seems we can have our cake, but we can’t eat it too.

You are not alone in these feelings.

From the moment we opt to make muffins with our kids because they asked us to, even though they are not a part of our wellness plan, we had to make a choice. We had a wonderful morning together, mixing batter and adding in secret zucchini—but now we are 5 muffins in and it’s not yet noon.

Every day we are presented with choices. All we can do is the next right thing, which can feel ambiguous. Saying yes to making muffins, meant saying no to a morning run. Did we make our children happy, yes. Did we make our yoga pants fit a little differently, maybe.

What we know to be true is that at any given moment, as mothers, we are all doing the very best we can. And that is exactly enough.

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