526: 1 Year Into A Pandemic. Moms Are Not Ok.

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

I have repeatedly likened our survival of this pandemic to our survival of Newbornland. We have endured a year of uncertainty and upheaval. We have made accommodations and adaptations to our lives that we never imagined - and often thought were not possible (hello virtual learning). This has taken a toll on us physically, mentally, and emotionally. And, like surviving Newbornland, we cannot fully process the toll it has taken because we have had to focus on keeping our family units alive and safe - without having the time or energy to give any consideration to our own deep and chronic exhaustion. We have carried the worry of our family’s health, security, and sanity as we have wondered how much worse things could get. And then we watched them get worse. We have worried about the lasting impact of this pandemic on our children’s mental health, without considering that we ourselves are also moving through a chronic traumatic event. We have used wine and workouts and Netflix and sourdough starter as coping mechanisms in hopes of a moment of reprieve. We have cried in closets and bathrooms, and screamed at the people we love the most, and thrown in the towel as we’ve thrown ourselves on the floor, and then picked the damn towel back up and dried our tears and tucked our kids into bed - for 365 nights now. We are not ok. Links mentioned: Apply for one-on-one business and leadership coaching with Sara Submit your question for an upcoming Ask Me Anything episode: shameless Mom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 526.
0:04.5	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to
0:08.3	shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 5 to 6.
0:16.8	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:19.0	I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:22.4	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:28.5	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:33.9	Shamedless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private
0:37.9	Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at
0:42.9	shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:52.6	Hello, shameless moms. Happy Monday. The next two weeks episodes are pretty unique in that they are
1:02.9	really remarkable milestones. So this week we're going to be talking about our, I was going to say our
1:10.7	celebration. I mean, I do think we can celebrate this in about our, I was going to say our celebration.
1:11.6	I mean, I do think we can celebrate this in some ways.
1:14.0	So I'll just say a celebration.
1:15.0	This is our celebration of surviving a year in a pandemic.
1:18.8	Celebration implies like it's real exciting and positive and feel good and happy.
1:23.7	But let's be honest, we can celebrate the various degrees and multiple layers of badassery
1:31.7	that we have gotten to endure in order to achieve a new level of strength and power and capability
1:41.1	moving forward. So, I mean, there is something to celebrate in that. So that's
1:46.2	where we're at today. And next week, we will be celebrating the Shameless Mom Academy five-year
1:52.0	anniversary, five-year birthday for the Shameless Mom Academy. Holy cow. And it's funny because
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