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Thank you once again for your great tips! I love your videos, they have so much wisdom, and I wish I'd heard this when I was just starting to have kids (my kids range from 15 down to 5). Showing this to my older girls so they know when it's their turn. Today I choose JOY as well!

I do as many hobbies still that I can: weaving, sewing, reading when I can, painting. I can't wait to teach my kids things so they can find their own hobbies.

Love this, Jaimie! I totally believe that there is joy in motherhood, but we shouldn't expect motherhood to always be the source of our joy.

I started to ask myself "what makes me feel alive?" I will write my answers down as they come up and refer to them when im feeling down. I share them with my loved ones and when I ask them the same question about me, they help me remeber..❤ Thanks for sharing your video. I was having a rough moment with my dauther this morning. I was feeling like a failure because my talks with her make her cry often.

I agree 100% with you. Motherhood is beautiful, and I would do it all over again without hesitating, but it is so draining! I have dealt with depression all my life, and when my first kid was born, I relied on him for my happiness, telling myself that he was the only reason for me to be happy and healthy, and then my kid was diagnosed with autism, and he was very deep into himself, not being the happy joys kid he was before, and I realized, NO, my kid cannot be my only source of happiness, I have to be HIS source of happiness. The adventure of autism has taught me so much about myself (like I am autistic myself) and about my kid, and showed me another face of motherhood that I did not expected but oh boy has give me the inspiration to be exactly the mother my kids needs me to be. And if I do not find myself enough to be happy, then my kids will have a burden on their shoulders that they don't need or deserve. So I started shredding off the guilty of having me time, I really enjoy reading books by myself, so I always set aside time for reading for myself. And I am definitely not a social person, but motherhood has helped me not hate other people so much jajaja having kids is like meeting a whole new person every few months, they grow up so fast, learn so many new things and their behavior changes so much that you must be adaptable, and being a person with depression is hard not to mistake some growth spurts behavior with hatred from my kids towards me. But I have come to terms with this realization, motherhood is not happiness, it is one of the many ways I can be happy. It is like, motherhood is a journey, with a destination, but it will continue until I die, so I better enjoy it jajaja. Awesome videos, yours are my favorite.

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