Ep 199 // 5 Simple Habits That Help You Prioritize Yourself Again
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Habit Stacking Mom | Routines, Consistency, Planning, Overwhelm, Organization, Declutter, Healthy Habits, Balance, Goals, SAHM
18 min
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8 chapters
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What is the purpose of today’s Focus Stack episode for busy moms?
Hey, hey mamas, welcome to Focus Stack Thursday. This is the new format for our Thursday episodes where we're gonna take what we talked about on Monday and we're gonna apply that conversation to your real life, giving you action steps or simple stack challenges, anything that you can take and actually apply over your weekend. So this is your opportunity to stack right alongside me, rework, redesign the routines that you live in your life. Let's get to it. Hey mammas, welcome back. So, one of the things that I find really interesting is how much summer can impact us as moms. I don't know about you, but for a long time I start to dread summer. If I'm being 100% honest with you. I get a little anxious. I get a little bit like, oh my goodness, summer is coming.
And the funny thing is, it's not because I don't love summer. I just don't love that it has less structure. And it makes me panic a little bit. Honestly, it's a lot of it is rooted in fear. I'm afraid of the unknown. And it's not necessarily the fear of summer itself. But a fear of without routines and schedules and systems that normally support us, I'm pretty sure everything's gonna fall apart, right? I feel like I'm not gonna be able to stay on top of my goals, my dreams, the things I'm working towards. They're just gonna have to get pushed off to the side. And I find so much anxiety in that. And that may not be true for every mom. But it is true for a lot of us. A lot of us mamas that have goals and we're ambitious and we're trying to work towards something and then summer comes and it's like
Oh, here comes the flexibility and it makes it really hard because a lot of us have to keep navigating childhood tantrums and and some of our summers may feel a lot like the school year, but everyone else around us is slowing down. It's just that underlying fear that we're not gonna get everything done. There's always something new that can be added to the to-do list in summer. You know, just the other day, you guys, my three year old. decided that even though she's fully potty trained, she suddenly forgot how important it was to use the bathroom before bedtime. Literally, I have told her a hundred times, did you go to the bathroom? I don't have to go. And me being goofy forgets to make her go. Because I think, well, she would tell me.
Nope, she's not telling me anymore. Which means I spent the better part of my evenings cleaning up a mess. In the middle of the night, I've had to clean up the couch.
How does summer’s loss of routine make moms feel anxious and overwhelmed?
I've had to clean up the car seat. Guess what? Those were not on my to-do list. That's motherhood. You start the day with a plan, and something as simple as a toddler regression has me cleaning up a hundred spills. Someone gets sick, a child needs you, an unexpected problem pops up, and suddenly the time and energy you thought you had available are gone. Then we begin focusing on everything we didn't get done. The laundry that's sitting in the basket, looking over there while I'm cleaning the rug, I'm like, ugh. I gotta do that next. Well, guess what? It takes 15 minutes to clean a couch that had pee on it. It's gonna take me another 10 minutes to fold that batch of laundry and put it away. So boom, there went 30 minutes.
What about that email I forgot to send or the appointments that I haven't scheduled yet that are riding in the back of my mind? When I stop and I do those, there goes another 30 minutes. Then you notice the closet. Your children decided to have dress up day and 25 dresses are on the floor and you're like, well, there goes a closet I need to organize, or the projects I haven't started. Hours upon hours upon hours can just disappear. We start running ourselves through this invisible test every day, measuring whether we did enough, did we accomplish enough, or did we even keep up with the original plan? The truth is most of that pressure isn't coming from anybody else. It's coming from us, said That invisible list running in the background of our minds.
And when we constantly keep trying to catch up to that invisible list, little by little, we stop taking care of ourselves.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s Focus Stack episode for busy moms?
0:01–2:41
2
How does summer’s loss of routine make moms feel anxious and overwhelmed?
2:41–5:11
3
Why do small daily tasks (laundry, spills, emails) steal time from self‑care?
5:11–7:12
4
What is the “invisible list” and how does it keep moms from prioritizing themselves?
7:12–9:36
5
What are the five anchor habits that can help moms reconnect with themselves?
9:36–12:07
6
How can the movement anchor be practiced without a formal workout?
12:07–13:58
7
What does the “fuel” anchor look like and why is proper nutrition essential for moms?
13:58–15:58
8
How can moms choose one weak anchor and create a tiny habit to rebuild it?
15:58–18:21
Speakers
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