Comments on: Relieving Mommy Stress http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/parenting-family-bliss/relieving-mommy/2090/ Fri, 25 May 2012 12:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Michael Cerreto http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/parenting-family-bliss/relieving-mommy/2090/#comment-16344 Michael Cerreto Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:26:38 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/relieving-mommy-stress/#comment-16344 I had lunch with a therapist friend of mine to discuss our common work with ADHD children. While we were talking about how to best help parents, he said half-jokingly, "I notice that ADHD has a way of making the average parent a bad parent at time." He was referring to our frustrations that build up and cause us to say or do something that we know at the time is not the best parenting. Personally, I notice it occurs when I am feeling a high level of stress similar to this post. Here are a few additional ideas for parents to reduce stress: Take a hike in the forest and just listen to everything while you walk Finger paint. Yes, I said use your fingers like the old days. Use soft-belly meditation. When meditating imagine you have a very soft-belly. This enables you to get more deeply relaxed. Keep a journal of doodles. Sit down and doodle how you are feeling and/or how you would like to feel. Don't worry about what anyone else will think. They will never see it. Talk with an imaginary guide. There are a million more ideas but these are some of the ones that get me and my clients through the day. I had lunch with a therapist friend of mine to discuss our common work with ADHD children. While we were talking about how to best help parents, he said half-jokingly, “I notice that ADHD has a way of making the average parent a bad parent at time.” He was referring to our frustrations that build up and cause us to say or do something that we know at the time is not the best parenting. Personally, I notice it occurs when I am feeling a high level of stress similar to this post.

Here are a few additional ideas for parents to reduce stress:

Take a hike in the forest and just listen to everything while you walk

Finger paint. Yes, I said use your fingers like the old days.

Use soft-belly meditation. When meditating imagine you have a very soft-belly. This enables you to get more deeply relaxed.

Keep a journal of doodles. Sit down and doodle how you are feeling and/or how you would like to feel. Don’t worry about what anyone else will think. They will never see it.

Talk with an imaginary guide.

There are a million more ideas but these are some of the ones that get me and my clients through the day.

]]> By: Kimmelin Hull http://blissfullydomestic.com/family-bliss/parenting-family-bliss/relieving-mommy/2090/#comment-9057 Kimmelin Hull Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:54:37 +0000 http://blissfullydomestic.com/uncategorized/relieving-mommy-stress/#comment-9057 Dear Kim and all the Blissfully Domestic Gals, Since the release of my memoir, A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood this past spring, I have received tremendous support and encouragement from many women treading the Mommy Blogosphere. After several lovely on-line book reviews, mentions in magazine articles and a featured spot on Blog Talk Radio’s Her Big Idea show, I would like to express my gratitude by offering a pdf version of my book for free to the first 100 Mom Bloggers who download. eBook Download Link: <a href="http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com/momblogger.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com/momblogger.html</a> A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood is a painfully sweet, blatantly honest, and unabashedly candid look at the joys and perils of early motherhood. It is a story of self degradation and reinvention—one that almost ANY mother can relate to. Ultimately, it is a very personal, and yet totally relatable story of triumph and hope. In the essence of furthering the on-line sense of community that many woman and mother-centered social networks and web logs promote, I hope you enjoy the opportunity to read my book, and look forward to receiving any thoughts or comments you may have afterward. Please feel free to forward this invitation to other mom bloggers you may know who you think would be equally interested in taking advantage of this opportunity. Warmly, Kimmelin Hull author of A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood Kimmelin Hull Pregnancy to Parenthood, LLC 406.599.2794 kmh@pregnancytoparenthood.org Check out my new book: A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood <a href="http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com</a> Dear Kim and all the
Blissfully Domestic Gals,

Since the release of my memoir, A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood this past spring, I have received tremendous support and encouragement from many women treading the Mommy Blogosphere. After several lovely on-line book reviews, mentions in magazine articles and a featured spot on Blog Talk Radio’s Her Big Idea show, I would like to express my gratitude by offering a pdf version of my book for free to the first 100 Mom Bloggers who download.

eBook Download Link:
http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com/momblogger.html

A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood is a painfully sweet, blatantly honest, and unabashedly candid look at the joys and perils of early motherhood. It is a story of self degradation and reinvention—one that almost ANY mother can relate to. Ultimately, it is a very personal, and yet totally relatable story of triumph and hope.

In the essence of furthering the on-line sense of community that many woman and mother-centered social networks and web logs promote, I hope you enjoy the opportunity to read my book, and look forward to receiving any thoughts or comments you may have afterward.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to other mom bloggers you may know who you think would be equally interested in taking advantage of this opportunity.

Warmly,

Kimmelin Hull

author of A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood

Kimmelin Hull
Pregnancy to Parenthood, LLC
406.599.2794
kmh@pregnancytoparenthood.org

Check out my new book:

A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other

Confessions of Motherhood

http://www.adozeninvisiblepieces.com

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