Motherhood allows you to fill your cup on a daily basis. To live a happy, full life, filled with passion and goals. Staying motivated, energized, and ready to face all moments is not always as easy as it sounds. However, when great vision, fueled by the right number of practices to achieve a more mindful mindset, filling your cup can be easier to achieve. Once you have the right frame of mind when it comes to being more mindful, the impossible will most definitely be more possible.
Learning how to center our thoughts, control our emotions, feel compassionate, and be clear on where we stand as individuals are but some of the goals a lot of mothers strive to incorporate in their daily lives to help them radiate on a more balanced scale. Finding the right balance between being a mindful mother and having a career, is at times haunting. However, it is all about balance and balance is all about time management. This balance surely does impact the family as a whole, because making life work for yourself and your family is the ultimate goal for all!
Ditching mommy guilt by understanding the roots of this guilt, managing your own expectations, and how to deal with mommy shaming can make motherhood seem unsustainable. However, when we start being honest with ourselves, letting go of our limiting beliefs by replacing them with more goal-orientated ones, asking for help when needed, and giving ourselves the right amount of care we need as an individual prior to caring for others, you will definitely be able to make the right choices moving forward. Choices that matter the most to you at this given point of time, choices that serve your bigger picture, ones that fit perfectly with where you and your family stand as a whole, creating just the right amount of momentum to help you grow more prosperously into all the things you wish to be.
Sama Alwasmi decided to walk away from being a Fashion Director to become a stay-at-home mom ready for all the joys that come with that title, leaping into motherhood so faithfully. She made the decision to become a stay-at-home mom to take care of her newly born daughter with no distractions and focus on all the things that come with the role, like everything involved with running a home. She decided to parent in the way she finds fit for her daughter and so starting to change the pattern and narrative for new moms, sharing her new journey on social media, proving to all new moms that you can mother in whatever way you find fit.
Her passion to work in fashion hit her hard as soon as the pandemic started and she needed to focus on some creative work to help sustain her family’s wellbeing by managing her very own through the design outlet. She is continuously propelling women forward in motherhood, work, and life! And she does it so fashionably! Her pandemic-born brand, Dear Nin is all about sustainability, calling women to be in their most real, truest form by loving who they are, just the way they are.
Sama’s ability to continuously work on developing herself has helped her face many challenges. Her limitless potential has been unleashed with a more open mindset to all the challenges she has addressed and any coming her way. Continuously learning and developing ways to better combine her work with her life by consistently incorporating her values in all aspects of her life equally, trying to maintain the balance we all thrive to get.
There are moments when this balance is so far away from reality but getting back on track requires the application of the techniques practiced on a daily basis until your new more empowering habits are born. And when this happens you will be able to unleash and let go of any unwanted barriers that may appear in the form of unidentified limiting beliefs. Understanding that being a mother while sustaining one’s self is so critical. We are so lucky to have a mother like Sama in our community proving that living a more sustainable life has become more attainable with the likes of her.
Fajer Alawadhi is an author, inspirational mom, and ultimate go-getter at heart. Certified in various fields from marketing, beauty to floristry, her multi-faceted personality has led her to host many inspirational Instagram live sessions with mothers from various walks of life to share their experiences since lockdown started last year. In this content series, Fajer aims to unbox the notion of wellness while also sharing stories that inspire from fellow moms in the local community. For more on Fajer Alawadhi, check out @fjrawadhi. For more on Sama Alwasmi and Dear Nin, follow @Samaalwasmi and @Dear.nin on Instagram.
