65: You’re Doing Great, Mama (with Sally Clarkson)

May is the Christmas of spring: it’s a beautiful time of year, filled with flowers and fun and new life, but if you’re a parent, you also know May is . . . a lot. All the recitals. All the field days. All the ball games and practices, all the projects before school’s out. And while you try to navigate all the end-of-school-year fun/chaos, let Emily and her guest, author and podcaster Sally Clarkson, remind you: You’re doing great, Mama-you really are. Sally is someone Emily turns to time and again for parenting advice, as Sally’s raised four exceptional young humans. And today, Sally shares stories from her own days in the May trenches, and gives us a gentle pep rally to remind us that great mamas aren’t the ones who have the perfect snack bags for field day, or have the summer schedule already filled to the brim with edutainment. Great mamas are the ones who not only provide for their kids, but also remember that in order to care for someone else well, we have to care for ourselves well, too.
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She reminds me of my great grandmother Leah who has passed years ago, and it just hit me why I just love watching sally!

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I have so much guilt, wanting to be by myself. As we speak I am driving to go have time by myself. It took me over 2 hours to leave my house. And then when I finally left I called my husband and I said maybe we can go do a through z. I'll come back home and get you guys. I go home and almost immediately it was like yeah I need time by myself. I had been home about an hour before I finally left. And as I said, I am driving by myself.
This was such unnecessary podcast! I am so glad I listened.