Once upon a time I had this moment where I dabbled into selling women’s clothing. I enjoyed my time but designing is where my heart is at so I rededicated myself to solely designing and made the move to the Lilypad.

While it was fun playing with clothes, the biggest part of what made it amazing to me was connecting with other women. Empowering each other, uplifting each other. You felt a real sense of womanhood & girl power in my group. I loved that! I loved that we could reach out to each other and create this bond.

After moving away from that and filling my world with designing, I have missed that feeling. The love, support and camaraderie. So I had a thought. Why can’t I do that here? I mean we are a community ourselves and that same motivation, support and friendship applies to this world too.

Starting today, I will make a post every Monday with a new quote and my own personal thoughts and feelings. I hope you will join me and share yours as well. The first of these posts will be some that I loved from my group. So if you were in that group, some of these might sound familiar. Let’s get started….

 

This is something I find that I often have to remind myself as a woman who is trying to run my own businesses. A woman with three kids. A woman with fibromyalgia. A woman who sometimes feels like it’s too hard to even get out of bed and face the day. A woman who sometimes think she can and HAS to do it all. A woman who tries to push herself too far to keep up with the rat race.

I have to remind myself it is OK. It is OK that I can’t do all of the things. It is OK if my house can’t look perfect all the time. It is OK if I don’t have my stuff together all the time. It is OK if I need to spend today in bed. It is OK to be a human who is flawed and can’t do all of the things.

While we strive to accept ourselves the way we are, to better ourselves where we need to, we also need to make sure that we give ourselves some self-care. Cut yourself some slack. Pamper yourself. And know that just because your house isn’t Instagram perfect, the laundry is piling up or you spend the day in your PJs, it is OK. You are doing the best that you can.