If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family
Are you weary? Stressed? Depressed, anxious, and annoyed? And, to top it all off, do you feel guilty for feeling bad? Rachel Norman gets you, mama. She knows how much you love your kids. And how, day after day, you put your family’s needs first, which means your own needs come last. Or don’t come at all.

Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents, and then was blindsided by a devastating health diagnosis. Neglecting her own physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs for so long—in an effort to be a selfless mother—had left her utterly depleted. And physically unwell. Then she began asking a question she’d never considered before: Could it be that taking good care of myself is not actually selfish, but maybe, just maybe, something a responsible adult does? In this countercultural book, Rachel takes some weight off your shoulders by
  • offering hands-on, rubber-meets-the-road strategies to cultivate a life you aren’t trying to constantly escape
  • teaching you to discover and claim your own limits and boundaries so you can be a calm, resilient, peaceful mother
  • showing you how to shape your daily life and values around the few things that really matter, and how to let the rest go

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. But when mama is at peace? Everyone benefits.
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If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family
Are you weary? Stressed? Depressed, anxious, and annoyed? And, to top it all off, do you feel guilty for feeling bad? Rachel Norman gets you, mama. She knows how much you love your kids. And how, day after day, you put your family’s needs first, which means your own needs come last. Or don’t come at all.

Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents, and then was blindsided by a devastating health diagnosis. Neglecting her own physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs for so long—in an effort to be a selfless mother—had left her utterly depleted. And physically unwell. Then she began asking a question she’d never considered before: Could it be that taking good care of myself is not actually selfish, but maybe, just maybe, something a responsible adult does? In this countercultural book, Rachel takes some weight off your shoulders by
  • offering hands-on, rubber-meets-the-road strategies to cultivate a life you aren’t trying to constantly escape
  • teaching you to discover and claim your own limits and boundaries so you can be a calm, resilient, peaceful mother
  • showing you how to shape your daily life and values around the few things that really matter, and how to let the rest go

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. But when mama is at peace? Everyone benefits.
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If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family

If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family

by Rachel Norman
If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family

If Mama Ain't Happy: Why Minding Healthy Boundaries Is Good for Your Whole Family

by Rachel Norman

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Are you weary? Stressed? Depressed, anxious, and annoyed? And, to top it all off, do you feel guilty for feeling bad? Rachel Norman gets you, mama. She knows how much you love your kids. And how, day after day, you put your family’s needs first, which means your own needs come last. Or don’t come at all.

Rachel used to be a mom who spent her days weary, anxious, and guilt laden. She had five kids in five years, lived on three different continents, and then was blindsided by a devastating health diagnosis. Neglecting her own physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional needs for so long—in an effort to be a selfless mother—had left her utterly depleted. And physically unwell. Then she began asking a question she’d never considered before: Could it be that taking good care of myself is not actually selfish, but maybe, just maybe, something a responsible adult does? In this countercultural book, Rachel takes some weight off your shoulders by
  • offering hands-on, rubber-meets-the-road strategies to cultivate a life you aren’t trying to constantly escape
  • teaching you to discover and claim your own limits and boundaries so you can be a calm, resilient, peaceful mother
  • showing you how to shape your daily life and values around the few things that really matter, and how to let the rest go

If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. But when mama is at peace? Everyone benefits.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781496459824
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Publication date: 10/11/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Rachel Norman is a mother, authorized Language of Listening® parent coach, and certified baby and toddler sleep consultant. She is also the founder of A Mother Far from Home, an online community dedicated to helping young mothers create peaceful and enjoyable lives for their families, which reaches more than a million readers per year. Rachel resides in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, with her husband, Matthew, and their five young children.

Table of Contents

Letter from Rachel xi

1 Happy-Go-Lucky … or Not 1

2 Sending the Wrong Message 15

3 Hard Stop: Limits, Boundaries, and Preferences 35

4 Transforming Losing Situations into Win-Win Solutions 49

5 Minding Your Own Rules 61

6 Minding Your Own Standards 79

7 Minding Your Own Friends 97

8 Minding Your Own Emotions 115

9 Minding Your Own Daily Care 133

10 Minding Your Own Responsibilities 151

11 Minding Your Own Home 169

12 Minding Your Own Life 185

13 Your True North 201

Notes 213

About the Author 217

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