Give Yourself Permission

Our current reality is not normal. It’s unknown and it’s scary.

Put your kids to bed, turn on Disney+, hand them a book, iPad, or something to color. Then find a space where you can be alone. Give yourself permission to stop putting on a brave face, just for a short while. If you need to cry, scream into a pillow, or collapse into the darkest thoughts in your head:

Give yourself permission to do so.

Sometimes we need to play out the tape. We need to ask the hard questions out loud. Say all the what-if’s. Worry, and worry, and worry some more.

As mothers, we have little people relying on us to constantly be strong for them. We need to be brave, all-knowing, and patient.

The weight of the patience we must carry right now, could break us, if we don’t remember to step away for just a moment.

It is grueling, so give yourself permission to let it all out. Because right now, the kids are alright, they are safe, and you need to allow yourself an opportunity to be unsure and imperfect.

In a few minutes, you will be needed again and you will be asked, why they can’t go to school, play with their friends, why, why why?

You will go over it all, again and again.

But for now, or as long as you can escape in solitude, you are allowed to be exactly as you need to be to get through this for yourself. So you can get through this with them.

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