Episode 110 Being well with Lauren
SLEEP MEDITATION with Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
Lauren Ostrowski Fenton
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Episode 110 of podcast Being well with Lauren
True strength comes NOT from fighting or flighting BUT from sitting in the silence
As a single Mum, age 51, with four kids, life can be challenging. One of the challenges I continue to face is the precarious ever-changing balance between mothering and maintaining my sense of self.
How do you keep a sense of calm in the mayhem of your life?
It is Sunday morning. I have just got back from basketball practice, and I have tried( emphasis on the word tried) to clean the house. I have picked up banana peels and apple cores. I have cleaned out the garage. I have washed dishes, put a wash on, Put washing away, cooked food for the next three days( I hope the food lasts that long)cleaned the kitchen, vacuumed and somehow the house still looks pretty terrible. Yes, my life with four kids life can be quite challenging. One of the issues which keep coming back to test me is how to be a Mum( I love being a Mum) without it becoming my only label. After all, Mothering is one of the labels I wear among of so many labels. I am not one story I am many stories. Sometimes in life parenting can tend to dominate our sense of self and like a tsunami drown out everything else. Thats why It is important to find ways to always maintain a sense of self, but this is easier than it sounds.
How do you so it?
How do you define the balance?
How to plan around the mayhem of life without placing yourself under too much pressure?
And let's face it Panic just doesn't help but staying calm in the chaos of life is hard work.
How do you remain calm?
Let's talk through these questions and more. Go and get your cup of tea and let's have a friendly chat.
Topics touched on:
Living in the mayhem
Work parenting balance
Parenting
Single parenting
Stress
Planning
Journaling
How to set and achieve goals
How to manage stress and fear
How to plan
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Lauren here, mother of four amazing, incredible, really challenging children including |
| 0:09.0 | twins. I'm a blogger, a writer, a avid personal trainer and I have written a book called Daily Rituals for |
| 0:19.1 | Happiness. My blog is about physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. |
| 0:27.0 | So go and get a cup of tea and let's sit down |
| 0:30.2 | and have a lovely chat. |
| 0:32.2 | Today I talk about how to set goals and achieve goals and |
| 0:37.4 | how to find a sense of self, a sincere authentic sense of self in the manic existence which is our lives. |
| 0:49.2 | And it's quite comical because I talk about my day today and it is now the end of the day it's quite late and I did |
| 0:56.7 | the podcast early morning or fairly early morning and it has been the day from I don't know what another planet it has been so |
| 1:06.2 | challenging today doing the episode managing the four, keeping everything together. |
| 1:15.0 | Being a parent is challenging. |
| 1:18.0 | Being a single parent is challenging. |
| 1:20.0 | We all have our challenges, don't we? Do you have yours? |
| 1:24.0 | My day is finished. I have a cup of tea in hand. I've been to the gym. |
| 1:30.0 | I've cooked some hot pot, vegetarian meals for the children. |
| 1:35.0 | Other boys ate mate. My girls are vegan and vegetarian. |
| 1:40.0 | I have tried to clean the house not true successfully and now we are settling down for the evening. |
| 1:48.0 | Thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:50.0 | Let's sit down and over a cup of tea have a lovely chat about well-being. |
| 1:58.0 | Hey there, I'm quite frazzled today, so I'm not even sure about what I'm going to speak about, |
| 2:09.0 | but I really wanted to keep in touch. So's Sunday morning actually I think it's not |
| 2:15.8 | Sunday morning yes it is still Sunday morning it's 11 15 a.m I have just come back |
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