You can’t take care of your family if you don’t take care of yourself. Period. So, just treat yourself.

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collective wisdom

“If it’s workable in your budget, Outsource the cleaning. That is the #1 thing we always recommend. The time you get back with family and the decrease in stress of worrying how to fit it in is absolutely worth the added expense if you can make it work. We have someone who comes once every other week.

“I really like the “say no.” While I was 9 months pregnant with a 3 year old during the holidays we had a “one event per day” rule. I think we’ll implement this again on the weekends when I go back to work next week.”

“I have made it a ritual to take naps when he goes down on the weekends. It has changed my life. Also, there is no such thing as too much self care.”

“I have found these three things help me. I would highly recommend taking up some type of yoga (start with basic if you haven't done it before) once a week (teaches being present and mindfulness), try a meditation class, and also getting Acupunture. All of those will help you to learn to change your responses to things, to try and breathe through things that normally make a type A lose it (like me), and also to focus on the bigger scheme of things.”

“Thirty minutes of reading a book to start my day, after the kid guess to preschool.”

“Restorative yoga.”

“My self-care = I went back to bed. Then watched an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt while folding laundry!”

“A glass of wine and a good book aka toddler is gone or sleeping.”

“A hot shower before bed.”