This is Happiness Solved with America's Happiness Coach, Sandy Scarlotta.

Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode.

I'm so happy you're here.

Happiness Solved is dedicated to giving you content that is empowering, motivational,

inspirational, and of course a dose of happiness.

It is my way to give back to the world and share other people's stories and wisdom.

This thing called life can be challenging and the stories that are shared demonstrate

that no matter what you have gone through, you can choose happiness.

Since in the United States, Mother's Day is in May, I want to dedicate this episode to

all of the amazing moms out there.

I recently wrote an article sharing my three steps to alleviate mom guilt for a local

magazine and I thought I would share some of it with you.

So mom guilt is a common theme that all mothers share.

It doesn't matter what choices we make regarding our children, we still get that pesky feeling

that we could be doing more for our kids.

I read an article from Psychology Today that said mom guilt can be a good thing if it

serves as a gentler reminder that our actions toward our children matter.

But if guilt is your primary emotion, it can negatively impact your parenting.

It is also important to remember that kids will test their mom and it's normal and to

recognize that all children will have challenges no matter what kind of mom they have.

So here are my three steps that I use whenever I start to feel this mom guilt, which by

the way, I didn't even realize it was a thing until I started researching this article.

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