Sowing the seeds of self - creative wishes, motherhood and me

Creative wishes

This Mother's Day, let's celebrate the fact that we can be both mother to our children, and kind to our own soul. That we can maybe do our best when we sow the seeds that honouring what makes our own soul sing, is good for our relationship and our children and our whole family life.

When we become a mama it can feel like our world turns upside down, gets shaken up and sometimes it feels a little like all the essential bits of us fell out at the same time, like coins falling out of your pocket when you hang them up on the end of the bed at night. Being a mama is amazingly life changing - and can especially in the early days, completely subsume our soul with emotion, change, tiredness, doing all the thousand and one tiny and multiple jobs that bringing a child into the house means.

Believe, especially if you're in that early cycle. That essential you is still in there. She may be (most likely will be) changed by motherhood. As spring brings growth and renewal, it's ok to get in touch with that seed of your soul as you travel on the path of motherhood. If you're like me, it's much needed. I've been a stay at home mama to my twin boys since they were born, and something in my soul craves and needs that creative time to restore my soul.

I used to think that this was time to switch off from being a mummy, in fact something I've been thinking about a lot is that our journey as a mama is intrinsically wrapped up in our journey of rediscovery of what it means to be me + mama + creativity.

Our creativity does not exist in a vacuum. It exists in both the situation we find ourselves in, in our particular season of life, and in the seeds we nurture when we go after what is most important to us and in listening to what feeds our soul.

Maybe our best gift to ourselves this Mothering Sunday is to listen to what is in our heart and hear how mothering is allowing us to explore new places within ourselves that open the door to a new creative awakening.

Soul note

Listen to your soul

Schedule yourself a time out, with a lovely notebook and cup of tea. Cake on a beautiful plate. Breathe deeply and celebrate what new gifts motherhood has given you and how they complement your creativity.

Knowing you have these new gifts, how will you use them to expand your creative practice? How can you share this knowledge with your family? What will you do to water these seeds of inspiration?

 Until next time, Breathe deeply, mother lovingly, create mindfully.

Claire