Hunter2323 : oh contents like this can be applied to everyone and for many situations, not just parents and caregivers. We can all feel inadequate at times for whatever reason. That's why I love watching Kristina's contents ^o^ Many of her contents can be useful to everyone regardless of who they are and where they are in their life.
At 2:10 When u said your therapist started breaking down how u were a good Mom, Out of nowhere it literally physically felt like I got punched in the chest n it broke down this Damm that I didn't even realize was there n i broke down in such a way that a so unexplainable, it was so heavy & fast like my emotions spilled out before my brain could process it... We have had the hardest past few months! My Husband lost his good steady income, I lost my job 2 weeks later! We couldn't find jobs despite our good resumes eventually money ran out Electric n Water got turned off, struggling to put food on the table, nothing I did was working out! I was trying to sell everything in my house & nobody wanted it! Couldn't get any assistance... My 2 Youngest turned 3 & 6 Oct 23rd & 25th & we couldn't even buy a birthday cake let alone provide a hot meal & that hurt more than anything! We lost so much & aren't used to not being able to provide for our boys, but despite all of that i never let my worry show cause im the one who always fixes everything sonehow someway & I knew if i let my family see the defeat i felt they'd completely lose what little hope they had left! And I have THEE BEST Husband in the world, I couldn't imagine having to go through this alone like u did, God Bless you for that video... Nothing has ever impacted me like that n I'm still just reeling!
God must have sent you to make this video, because I am in that rock bottom place right now. In the exact!!!! Place that you've described and yes I feel like that pitty little loser. Thank you so much for this encouraging video. Hvala ti puno
My best friend sent me a link to this when I was telling her sometimes I worry that I'm not being the best for my 2 year old daughter. I'm not divorced but she still sleeps in her Pack n Play bed because we had to return our gifted crib to move, we have had a LOT of hard times, and have had Mac n cheese twice in two days! I cannot thank you enough for this video 💘
This is my testimony. Right now I'm living back with my mother with 2 kids after my divorce from my emotionally abusive husband who I think also sexually abused my oldest daughter. One was 5 and the other 15 months old. We are sleeping in one room together and my kids are sleeping in a bunk bed and I'm in my own bed and I'm on food stamps. I have been trying to find a job for years but the doors won't open for me and because of this I felt and sometimes feel like a failure to my girls. If I went to see the therapist he would have probably said the same thing about me. Everyone says that I'm a great mother even when I feel that I'm a disappointment to them.
Wow. This made me bawl my eyes out and I'm not even a parent. I feel inadequate all the time because a few years ago I slipped into depression and normal things for others became immensely difficult for me to achieve. I wasn't meeting the expectations of others and of myself. I'm still not. But hearing this makes me feel adequate because I'm still not done doing my best. I'm still going to keep trying to find a way to live my life a free soul. Thank you, fellow Croat.
Thank you for this. I'm sitting here crying after watching this because I'm struggling with the mom guilt of not being good enough lately. I recently got a job after staying home for 4.5 years to have my kids (4.5 and just turned 2) I was going crazy being at home. I needed to be Brittany and not just mom. So, I got a job. Now I'm struggling with the guilt of leaving my kids at the daycare from 8:30-5:30 mon-fri. When I get them at 5:30, there are just a handful of kids left to be picked up. When I finally get home it's 6 and then I have to cook, eat and get them fed, clean up, bath, and put them to bed. I don't get to spend a lot of time with them like I used to, but I'm a happier person than I was. Am I doing the right thing? Am I good enough? It's a constant struggle.
You are doing the right thing! Children need a happy mom, not a mom who is just physically present 24/7. So do what is best for you, that will also be the best for them.
Godsake woman,why the fuck are you beating yourself up so. Let's see, your intentions are good, you love them and let them know it and you believe you are doing the best thing. Right? So, nobody can take that away from you.
Thank you for this. Sometimes I feel like I'm a crappy mum too. I cried when you said this and I appreciate it. I'm so happy I'm subscribed so I could see this. Awesome. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
How do you go from the depressed state to who you are now? I am in the middle of living a nightmare. Husband, love of my life, of ten years left me for my 'best friend'. I have a three and a five year old and I feel like I've deteriorated as a mom. I'm right where you were. I don't feel good enough, I'm taking care of my kids somehow, but how do you climb out of this hell? How do you get to be a positive role model for other women. It sounds like you know who you are, are happy with who you are and are using that to help other moms. Help. I don't know who I am, don't know how to stop crying or how to move on.
Hey Kristina, I have seen a few of your videos before and none of them hit like this one, I saw it on FB just a few min ago and it really made my issues in life less worry some, you confirmed my thoughts of no matter how hard it gets with my kids or what they miss out on that it's ok, they won't hate me for it and better days will come. So I had to subscribe to your channel, Thank you for sharing your experience! I hope my channel can inspire others once I get things set up to start posting! To: #AwesomeMoms
you ARE awesome!!! Yes, you ARE a great mom to your sweet children. Having a great therapist, someone to hear you, was the best thing that you could have done for yourself. Sometimes I do this to myself too, I'm going to use "take a seat and zip it". :-) love that. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this. Every piece of reassurance I find, helps me a bit more to make it through the challenges of being a single parent with no financial help, and little emotional support most days.
Awesome Video! I'm a single mom with 2 daughters; I so understand where you were. Currently I'm in therapy for depression and two mental illnesses. My girls are older now; yet, even on a bad day, we can all say I did my best with what I had on that day.
I am a single mom, I love my son so much but some days are over whelming and hard. people judge me a lot and always seem to tell me what I am doing wrong, I feel like I never hear about the things I am doing right. I have had days where I want to cry and cry but I hold it all in until my sons asleep and just cry because I feel like lost. thank you for making this video.
Thank you! Your positivity put a smile on my face. I'm leaving for the US Air Force on Monday and I am so worried, so scared, that my children will not get to know me and not like me and that people will see how "bad" of a parent I am for leaving my family for long periods of time. But the flip side is so hugely positive, and I needed that reminder today. I can still be a good dad in moments and from a distance. Just need to remember that.
Beautiful story!!! I'm not a mom, but boy can I relate to that kind of despair. So beautifully told, and SO GLAD your life has turned around so dramatically. You are an amazing woman, and I am inspired by you. Thank you!
Thank you......sounds like my situation......I really needed this....This was posted on a friends facebook page......God is so awesome because it really helped me. Truly BLESSED ME.....I NEEDED THE TEARS-CLEANSING FOR ME
Where is the LOVE button for TH-cam?! 💕💕💕 That you so much for sharing your story. I've been there myself. Thank you for sharing your message of hope and making this world a brighter place.
I like! This is so genuinely true. Thanks for speaking your mind and your heart in your little quiet place in your car. I work with many young moms (teachers) who are struggling to work, be a mom, and be a human. It is not easy. The demands of each job are huge. And the biggest demand is the one we put on OURSELVES. By OURSELVES. I will share this with them. They deserve to hear there is a better way to think about themselves. Muah!
I was a single mom for 7 years I leaved in Japan and I'm not 100% Japanese I was judged and discriminated from Japanese society because being a single mom in Japan was a shame, now I'm leaving in United state and when I looked back I totally realized how great mom I am my daughter today is 22 years old speaks 4 language she's very kind and smart woman never take anything for granted. I love your videos just because you are real and funny
Thank you thank you for this video!! I just sat in my car and cried when I watched this video! I feel so emotional when I watch this video. I feel exactly the same way! Thank you for letting people know that other moms went through the same thing at one point. But that we all feel inadequate at some point.
I can't explain how much this has helped me! I've felt so low lately and feeling like a horrible mom. Your video came across my Facebook and I broke down in tears watching because I could relate. You have a forever subscriber! I'll be sharing with friends as well
I know that rock bottom hopeless feeling. I know exactly that feeling. I cried, when you kept it together telling us your story, I cried. So often I only see the supermoms and I do compare myself thinking my kids could have a better mom than I. This is undoubtedly the most impactful post I have seen on TH-cam and I am great full. For myself to keep my self critisizm in check Sometimes I tell my self or others: My kids aren't starving, I WIN! My kids have clean clothes, I WIN! I am an active advocate for their educational journey through school (not easy with a kid in special ed and one in highly capable programs)...I WIN! As parents we win if our kids needs are taken care of just as that therapist had said. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing your story.
This video hits home. I'm going through this right now. It's been so very hard these last 8 months!! Divorce will take everything from your soul as a parent. You really do try hard as hell to make your children happy and feel like you fell short. It's gives comfort when you see and hear it's not just you that's going through it or been through it!! Thanks for this vid seriously thanks💖💖
You are so inspirational. I think you did an amazing job. I'm not a parent but I know you weren't doing harm to your kids. You just didn't want your kids to see you like that. And you still made sure they ate. And the part where you said that you slept on the floor and gave your kids a bed also proved that you made sure they slept comfortably and you took the floor when you couldn't have your own bed.
This is sooooo beautiful. Beautiful because you shared from your heart and gave as a gift to all of us out here. Beautiful that your therapist had such a wonderful perspective that gave you a gift to pick yourself up again so you could move forward to be who you are today too. Beautiful that it's a message that can be paid forward...over and over and over ...so many will be touched by this.... Thank you
I absolutely love this! I am in your "ten years ago" and I'm looking forward to being a happy mother again one day! I'm always doubting myself and it's hard to cheer yourself up,so thanks for this!! I absolutely love you!❤
Thank you so much for this. Your are truly an amazing person. This was such an emotional video and I cried openly... I just discovered your channel today and couldn't subscribe fast enough!!
Honey I just hit this point in my therapy today and your video really hits home. I used to question if I was a good mother because I stayed in an abusive relationship (out now and moved on to a wonderful healthy relationship) and my kids saw all that and then I questioned everything I did. Today we hit that point in my therapy where I realized I have ALWAYS given my all to my children to be the best mother and wife I could be. Under the circumstances at the time I felt like I was failing because our situation was so bad but I realized today that I have always been there for my kids, I've made sure they were fed, I made sure they were clothed and sheltered and I did my best with what was handed to me. Today I realized that despite all of our setbacks and mistakes I've made that I am a good mother and a good girlfriend and we are happy and healthy and that's what I want for my family. Your videos lift me up so much so thank you. *Funny tidbit, my therapist actually directed me to your videos starting with the, "I'm not your friend, kid."*
wow!! Thank you!! thank you for this video!! I love watching your videos and this video rly hit home bc there are days where I feel like im failing but all my son rly cares about is if mommy is there to hug him and give him kisses. thank you so much for this!! God bless you hun!!
I love every video you make. You lift me up everyday. Today I am really sick with the flu and just doing what I can while still taking care of me, and that is OK. TODAY i am just being good enough tomorrow or next week I will be amazing and next day maybe not so much. But i am giving myself permission that that is OK. LOVE YOU. XX
You are the most genuine woman mother whom even though I havent met you personally... I already feel that we are so similar! Im so glad I met your page and videos.
Wow... I never saw you in this way. I think you are awesome. Take every situation with fun. I'm so glad to found you and your videos make me laughter at some of those days. So I wanna share something with you: at April it is about 7years ago I and my son left his father. There have been so much judgement days, lawers days, letters and more. Today... I got the message everything is over now. Everything is done. After 7 years of crying, fear for my son, so difficult circumstances. I feel a bit scary about this new freedom... Will I handle this in a right way? Yes, I will. But I'm a bit scary too. What will come next? I don't know. But I still hope the best 😊 Thank you! For every laughter. And for the way you show us tonight. You are a wonderful mum, a great woman!!!
It's hard trying to be super mom. Saw this on fb one day, i needed to hear this. Randomly found it on TH-cam & who Kristina is....thank you btw Kristina , whenever I feel depressed I will watch this short clip, this eally helps.
I needed this today. I also have a 2 and 3 yo. This has been the worst (but best) year of my life. I had half my pancreas, my spleen, part of my colon and a blood supply to my kidney removed on December 21 last year, due to cancer. I felt like my babies' Christmas was ruined. Then I developed a leak that wouldn't resolve. then, I had a hemorrhagic stroke in February. I was in ICU for 12 days. I have severe, debilitating headaches every day, due to the blood on my brain. Before I got sick, I too cooked healthy meals for my boys. I, too, took them to the park and fun places. Now, I'm lucky if I can get up and change diapers and hand them a pop tart... all while trying to explain why Mommy has to wear sunglasses inside. I just really needed this today, so... Thank You!
I loved reading this story in your book!! You are truly so inspirational and I love every piece of advice you give! Your advice helps me be a better parent while not being so hard on myself!!! Thanks Kristina you are such a freaking Rockstar!!!
Kristina! You put out some great videos. This one however, takes the cake. This is the hands down the best video. I'm a father of 3 and struggle with thinking I'm a "bad" dad. My wife has the same feelings about herself at times. This helped us immensely!!! Thank you, thank you, thanks you!
Rockstar! Show up.. love your people... that is what they will remember.. :) I agree with another person here.. you need to write a book.. I would read it many times!
Great message, but for some reason, it's just harder to apply to single dads. Maybe it's cultural, but I just can't find anything good about feeding my kids Mac & Cheese 3 hours late in a messy cabin, that's cold because I couldn't get motivated to build a fire all day. It's alright for women to fall short of filling both roles, but somehow, it's just not acceptable for men to drop the ball in the provider role, or the most vital roles of nurturing the children...
I truly want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart for this video. So many of us beat ourselves up everyday because we don’t feel adequate as parents. As a single mother who’s had to go to school full time and work 60 hours a week, I would cry because my son wasn’t seeing me as much as he wanted. I don’t wasn’t seeing him as much as I wanted. I wanted to play with him and make him laugh so much more than I could. And on the 1 day off I had, sometimes I would just fall asleep while playing video games with him. And I hated myself for it. But this seriously pushed me. This made me believe that I am doing “the best I can under the circumstances” I share this video with all my friends. You truly don’t understand the impact you’ve had on us. You are amazing. And I sincerely thank you xxoo
I'm a mom to a special needs child, right now things are really rough, I carry so much stress and guilt over not being home with her but only working part time and not being able to cover the bills. I spend many nights driving home from work crying so that I can get it all out and be present for her when Im home. I feel like a crappy parent probably 95% of the time. Your video was just what I needed to hear. Thank you!!!! I am hitting the subscribe button!!!!!
Wow. Thank you for this. I have been struggling with depression and feeling like a terrible mother, but this hit home and made me realize I'm not. I'm just going through a hard time but my kids are always my top priority even if all I can manage is cartoons and mac and cheese. ♥️
she needs a book
acalvord93 actually we need her book😉
She SHOULD write a book! "Truth bomb about Motherhood"
@@muslimah5155 yes we do
She has 2 books out now.
i am a guy, but, the take away from this is astounding, even for us guys, thank you..
I'm not even a parent and I'm inspired! It's a wonderful message that was beautifully presented.
Hunter2323 : oh contents like this can be applied to everyone and for many situations, not just parents and caregivers. We can all feel inadequate at times for whatever reason. That's why I love watching Kristina's contents ^o^ Many of her contents can be useful to everyone regardless of who they are and where they are in their life.
haha I know! I'm simply a college student and I love watching her videos! it can probably be applied to the rest of life too
Sounds like a great therapist. You should link to him in the description! :-)
Recently single mum of three under six. I cried. We are enough. We are good enough for our kids. Love you x
At 2:10 When u said your therapist started breaking down how u were a good Mom, Out of nowhere it literally physically felt like I got punched in the chest n it broke down this Damm that I didn't even realize was there n i broke down in such a way that a so unexplainable, it was so heavy & fast like my emotions spilled out before my brain could process it... We have had the hardest past few months! My Husband lost his good steady income, I lost my job 2 weeks later! We couldn't find jobs despite our good resumes eventually money ran out Electric n Water got turned off, struggling to put food on the table, nothing I did was working out! I was trying to sell everything in my house & nobody wanted it! Couldn't get any assistance... My 2 Youngest turned 3 & 6 Oct 23rd & 25th & we couldn't even buy a birthday cake let alone provide a hot meal & that hurt more than anything! We lost so much & aren't used to not being able to provide for our boys, but despite all of that i never let my worry show cause im the one who always fixes everything sonehow someway & I knew if i let my family see the defeat i felt they'd completely lose what little hope they had left! And I have THEE BEST Husband in the world, I couldn't imagine having to go through this alone like u did, God Bless you for that video... Nothing has ever impacted me like that n I'm still just reeling!
This is absolutely incredible and raw and beautiful. Amen 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
God must have sent you to make this video, because I am in that rock bottom place right now. In the exact!!!! Place that you've described and yes I feel like that pitty little loser. Thank you so much for this encouraging video. Hvala ti puno
Stellashines83 me too!!
Thank you so much for sharing!
My best friend sent me a link to this when I was telling her sometimes I worry that I'm not being the best for my 2 year old daughter. I'm not divorced but she still sleeps in her Pack n Play bed because we had to return our gifted crib to move, we have had a LOT of hard times, and have had Mac n cheese twice in two days! I cannot thank you enough for this video 💘
This is my testimony. Right now I'm living back with my mother with 2 kids after my divorce from my emotionally abusive husband who I think also sexually abused my oldest daughter. One was 5 and the other 15 months old. We are sleeping in one room together and my kids are sleeping in a bunk bed and I'm in my own bed and I'm on food stamps. I have been trying to find a job for years but the doors won't open for me and because of this I felt and sometimes feel like a failure to my girls. If I went to see the therapist he would have probably said the same thing about me. Everyone says that I'm a great mother even when I feel that I'm a disappointment to them.
Wow. This made me bawl my eyes out and I'm not even a parent. I feel inadequate all the time because a few years ago I slipped into depression and normal things for others became immensely difficult for me to achieve. I wasn't meeting the expectations of others and of myself. I'm still not. But hearing this makes me feel adequate because I'm still not done doing my best. I'm still going to keep trying to find a way to live my life a free soul. Thank you, fellow Croat.
Thank you for this. I'm sitting here crying after watching this because I'm struggling with the mom guilt of not being good enough lately. I recently got a job after staying home for 4.5 years to have my kids (4.5 and just turned 2) I was going crazy being at home. I needed to be Brittany and not just mom. So, I got a job. Now I'm struggling with the guilt of leaving my kids at the daycare from 8:30-5:30 mon-fri. When I get them at 5:30, there are just a handful of kids left to be picked up. When I finally get home it's 6 and then I have to cook, eat and get them fed, clean up, bath, and put them to bed. I don't get to spend a lot of time with them like I used to, but I'm a happier person than I was. Am I doing the right thing? Am I good enough? It's a constant struggle.
But thank you for making this video. It's amazing.
You are doing the right thing! Children need a happy mom, not a mom who is just physically present 24/7. So do what is best for you, that will also be the best for them.
Godsake woman,why the fuck are you beating yourself up so. Let's see, your intentions are good, you love them and let them know it and you believe you are doing the best thing. Right?
So, nobody can take that away from you.
On the same journey! Remember, your kids deserve a Happy mum.
I needed to hear this so bad.. I am crying right now. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this. Sometimes I feel like I'm a crappy mum too. I cried when you said this and I appreciate it. I'm so happy I'm subscribed so I could see this. Awesome. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Once again your words speak to my heart. Shared to BFMT.
How do you go from the depressed state to who you are now? I am in the middle of living a nightmare. Husband, love of my life, of ten years left me for my 'best friend'. I have a three and a five year old and I feel like I've deteriorated as a mom. I'm right where you were. I don't feel good enough, I'm taking care of my kids somehow, but how do you climb out of this hell? How do you get to be a positive role model for other women. It sounds like you know who you are, are happy with who you are and are using that to help other moms. Help. I don't know who I am, don't know how to stop crying or how to move on.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video 😘 I know this because it is more than one capter of my life too.
Thank you so muvh
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Hey Kristina,
I have seen a few of your videos before and none of them hit like this one, I saw it on FB just a few min ago and it really made my issues in life less worry some, you confirmed my thoughts of no matter how hard it gets with my kids or what they miss out on that it's ok, they won't hate me for it and better days will come. So I had to subscribe to your channel,
Thank you for sharing your experience! I hope my channel can inspire others once I get things set up to start posting!
To: #AwesomeMoms
I love this video! Thank you for sharing it Kristina!
Who would dislike this video? I mean... why????
you ARE awesome!!! Yes, you ARE a great mom to your sweet children. Having a great therapist, someone to hear you, was the best thing that you could have done for yourself. Sometimes I do this to myself too, I'm going to use "take a seat and zip it". :-) love that. Thank you.
omg this is so special
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YOU are so special! x
Perfect timing! Thank you!
Still watching this in 2020 so beautiful 😍
2024 ❤
Thank you so much for sharing such a personal story.
Thank you for sharing this. Every piece of reassurance I find, helps me a bit more to make it through the challenges of being a single parent with no financial help, and little emotional support most days.
This video has saved me. Thank you so much!!
Been there. Crying now. Thank you!
wow who was your therapist. love this.
Awesome Video! I'm a single mom with 2 daughters; I so understand where you were. Currently I'm in therapy for depression and two mental illnesses. My girls are older now; yet, even on a bad day, we can all say I did my best with what I had on that day.
You are AN AMAZING MOM and don't you ever forget that!!! We love you. xo
Thank u for sharing this. ❤️
I am a single mom, I love my son so much but some days are over whelming and hard. people judge me a lot and always seem to tell me what I am doing wrong, I feel like I never hear about the things I am doing right. I have had days where I want to cry and cry but I hold it all in until my sons asleep and just cry because I feel like lost. thank you for making this video.
thanks for being awesome
Beautifully said!
Thank you! Your positivity put a smile on my face. I'm leaving for the US Air Force on Monday and I am so worried, so scared, that my children will not get to know me and not like me and that people will see how "bad" of a parent I am for leaving my family for long periods of time. But the flip side is so hugely positive, and I needed that reminder today. I can still be a good dad in moments and from a distance. Just need to remember that.
I can not love you anymore. You are the realist mom on TH-cam.
Woman, I love you so much!
Beautiful story!!! I'm not a mom, but boy can I relate to that kind of despair.
So beautifully told, and SO GLAD your life has turned around so dramatically. You are an amazing woman, and I am inspired by you. Thank you!
that's right: you are all people, not some machines.
I really needed to hear this. Thank you for sharing 💜
Thank you. Really needed a message like this today
OMG this is brilliant.
Thank you......sounds like my situation......I really needed this....This was posted on a friends facebook page......God is so awesome because it really helped me. Truly BLESSED ME.....I NEEDED THE TEARS-CLEANSING FOR ME
You are awesome.
thank you!!
Hi kristina...This is so powerful...👍 Can you do a video on self sabotage...How moms create problems for themselves....☺️
Where is the LOVE button for TH-cam?! 💕💕💕 That you so much for sharing your story. I've been there myself. Thank you for sharing your message of hope and making this world a brighter place.
Love u
You're perfect :) Classy, genuine, and looks of Sandra Bullock!
Divna si, Kristina!
Okay... I cried!!!! Well done Kristina.You're an extraordinary woman!
I like! This is so genuinely true. Thanks for speaking your mind and your heart in your little quiet place in your car. I work with many young moms (teachers) who are struggling to work, be a mom, and be a human. It is not easy. The demands of each job are huge. And the biggest demand is the one we put on OURSELVES. By OURSELVES. I will share this with them. They deserve to hear there is a better way to think about themselves. Muah!
I agree, you are such a beautiful soul, you should do a book. I am so grateful I found your channel. Love to you and God Bless sweety.
I was a single mom for 7 years I leaved in Japan and I'm not 100% Japanese I was judged and discriminated from Japanese society because being a single mom in Japan was a shame, now I'm leaving in United state and when I looked back I totally realized how great mom I am my daughter today is 22 years old speaks 4 language she's very kind and smart woman never take anything for granted.
I love your videos just because you are real and funny
You are such an inspiration, you make me cry for my own problems with my kids, but you also manage to keep my head up! Thank you! (From Greece)
you seem like one of the sweetest women on TH-cam. thank you for sharing. subscribed! really enjoying your videos. you seem like a great mom.
Thank you thank you for this video!! I just sat in my car and cried when I watched this video! I feel so emotional when I watch this video. I feel exactly the same way! Thank you for letting people know that other moms went through the same thing at one point. But that we all feel inadequate at some point.
Thanks so much this really really put a lot of broken pieces back together, thanks so much Kristina ❤️
I can't explain how much this has helped me! I've felt so low lately and feeling like a horrible mom. Your video came across my Facebook and I broke down in tears watching because I could relate. You have a forever subscriber! I'll be sharing with friends as well
I know that rock bottom hopeless feeling. I know exactly that feeling. I cried, when you kept it together telling us your story, I cried. So often I only see the supermoms and I do compare myself thinking my kids could have a better mom than I. This is undoubtedly the most impactful post I have seen on TH-cam and I am great full. For myself to keep my self critisizm in check Sometimes I tell my self or others: My kids aren't starving, I WIN! My kids have clean clothes, I WIN! I am an active advocate for their educational journey through school (not easy with a kid in special ed and one in highly capable programs)...I WIN! As parents we win if our kids needs are taken care of just as that therapist had said. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing your story.
This video hits home. I'm going through this right now. It's been so very hard these last 8 months!! Divorce will take everything from your soul as a parent. You really do try hard as hell to make your children happy and feel like you fell short. It's gives comfort when you see and hear it's not just you that's going through it or been through it!! Thanks for this vid seriously thanks💖💖
You are so inspirational. I think you did an amazing job. I'm not a parent but I know you weren't doing harm to your kids. You just didn't want your kids to see you like that. And you still made sure they ate. And the part where you said that you slept on the floor and gave your kids a bed also proved that you made sure they slept comfortably and you took the floor when you couldn't have your own bed.
This is sooooo beautiful. Beautiful because you shared from your heart and gave as a gift to all of us out here. Beautiful that your therapist had such a wonderful perspective that gave you a gift to pick yourself up again so you could move forward to be who you are today too. Beautiful that it's a message that can be paid forward...over and over and over ...so many will be touched by this.... Thank you
Inspiring and powerful, thanks Kristina, with your state of mind, only good things will come
As you said in one of your previous Videos.........Yeah, but... ;-)
I absolutely love this! I am in your "ten years ago" and I'm looking forward to being a happy mother again one day! I'm always doubting myself and it's hard to cheer yourself up,so thanks for this!! I absolutely love you!❤
Thank you so much for sharing this. Wow. You are a very inspirational person. xxx
wow. I recently came upon your videos. They are absolutely amazing !
Thank you so much for this. Your are truly an amazing person. This was such an emotional video and I cried openly... I just discovered your channel today and couldn't subscribe fast enough!!
Honey I just hit this point in my therapy today and your video really hits home. I used to question if I was a good mother because I stayed in an abusive relationship (out now and moved on to a wonderful healthy relationship) and my kids saw all that and then I questioned everything I did. Today we hit that point in my therapy where I realized I have ALWAYS given my all to my children to be the best mother and wife I could be. Under the circumstances at the time I felt like I was failing because our situation was so bad but I realized today that I have always been there for my kids, I've made sure they were fed, I made sure they were clothed and sheltered and I did my best with what was handed to me. Today I realized that despite all of our setbacks and mistakes I've made that I am a good mother and a good girlfriend and we are happy and healthy and that's what I want for my family. Your videos lift me up so much so thank you. *Funny tidbit, my therapist actually directed me to your videos starting with the, "I'm not your friend, kid."*
wow!! Thank you!! thank you for this video!! I love watching your videos and this video rly hit home bc there are days where I feel like im failing but all my son rly cares about is if mommy is there to hug him and give him kisses. thank you so much for this!! God bless you hun!!
Thank you so much. You having me crying. Really hit home. I appreciate your videos so much.
this is exactly what I went through in the ending of 2015. I can not get enough of this video. thank you.
Totally needed to see this... I’m at rock bottom bad right now!!!! And this is what I needed... crying my eyes out as I type. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Thank You so much for sharing! Very inspiring! Love your videos! 😘
I litterally cried. I cant even say anything esle because I'm speechless. Thank you for this.❤❤
Thank you for this....going through divorce, but instead with 3 teenagers :( Needed to see this. Thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Words matter. Sometimes an encouraging word can be life changing. Thank you for sharing this story.
God, Kristina...I cried. Thank you for this video 💝
this, is awesome! wow.... I wish I had someone to tell me those things when I hit rock bottom..... geez. glad I found your page. thank you!
I love every video you make. You lift me up everyday. Today I am really sick with the flu and just doing what I can while still taking care of me, and that is OK. TODAY i am just being good enough tomorrow or next week I will be amazing and next day maybe not so much. But i am giving myself permission that that is OK. LOVE YOU. XX
You are the most genuine woman mother whom even though I havent met you personally... I already feel that we are so similar! Im so glad I met your page and videos.
My daughter is in the process of being diagnosed with ASD & anxiety. She's a 2E gifted child _ I really needed this today. 💜💜💜💜
Thank you so much, Kristina, for these videos. You are wonderful and thank you for the positive messages!
Wow... I never saw you in this way. I think you are awesome. Take every situation with fun.
I'm so glad to found you and your videos make me laughter at some of those days.
So I wanna share something with you: at April it is about 7years ago I and my son left his father. There have been so much judgement days, lawers days, letters and more.
Today... I got the message everything is over now. Everything is done.
After 7 years of crying, fear for my son, so difficult circumstances.
I feel a bit scary about this new freedom...
Will I handle this in a right way? Yes, I will. But I'm a bit scary too.
What will come next?
I don't know. But I still hope the best 😊
Thank you! For every laughter. And for the way you show us tonight. You are a wonderful mum, a great woman!!!
Thanks! This is something I´m working on now. Your examples are very encouraging. Thank you, that you are there.
It's hard trying to be super mom. Saw this on fb one day, i needed to hear this. Randomly found it on TH-cam & who Kristina is....thank you btw Kristina , whenever I feel depressed I will watch this short clip, this eally helps.
I needed this today. I also have a 2 and 3 yo. This has been the worst (but best) year of my life. I had half my pancreas, my spleen, part of my colon and a blood supply to my kidney removed on December 21 last year, due to cancer. I felt like my babies' Christmas was ruined. Then I developed a leak that wouldn't resolve. then, I had a hemorrhagic stroke in February. I was in ICU for 12 days. I have severe, debilitating headaches every day, due to the blood on my brain. Before I got sick, I too cooked healthy meals for my boys. I, too, took them to the park and fun places. Now, I'm lucky if I can get up and change diapers and hand them a pop tart... all while trying to explain why Mommy has to wear sunglasses inside. I just really needed this today, so... Thank You!
I loved reading this story in your book!! You are truly so inspirational and I love every piece of advice you give! Your advice helps me be a better parent while not being so hard on myself!!! Thanks Kristina you are such a freaking Rockstar!!!
Kristina! You put out some great videos. This one however, takes the cake. This is the hands down the best video. I'm a father of 3 and struggle with thinking I'm a "bad" dad. My wife has the same feelings about herself at times. This helped us immensely!!! Thank you, thank you, thanks you!
your amazing!! Thank you so much. I really needed to hear this. More then I thought. Thank you sooo much.
Thank you for sharing. I hope you continue to make videos like these. Great job!
Rockstar! Show up.. love your people... that is what they will remember.. :)
I agree with another person here.. you need to write a book.. I would read it many times!
I love this. Great advice 👍. Thank you for sharing!
Had me in tears not only did this speak to me as a mom but as a child of a single parent.
Great message, but for some reason, it's just harder to apply to single dads. Maybe it's cultural, but I just can't find anything good about feeding my kids Mac & Cheese 3 hours late in a messy cabin, that's cold because I couldn't get motivated to build a fire all day. It's alright for women to fall short of filling both roles, but somehow, it's just not acceptable for men to drop the ball in the provider role, or the most vital roles of nurturing the children...
I truly want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart for this video. So many of us beat ourselves up everyday because we don’t feel adequate as parents. As a single mother who’s had to go to school full time and work 60 hours a week, I would cry because my son wasn’t seeing me as much as he wanted. I don’t wasn’t seeing him as much as I wanted. I wanted to play with him and make him laugh so much more than I could. And on the 1 day off I had, sometimes I would just fall asleep while playing video games with him. And I hated myself for it. But this seriously pushed me. This made me believe that I am doing “the best I can under the circumstances” I share this video with all my friends. You truly don’t understand the impact you’ve had on us. You are amazing. And I sincerely thank you xxoo
I'm a mom to a special needs child, right now things are really rough, I carry so much stress and guilt over not being home with her but only working part time and not being able to cover the bills. I spend many nights driving home from work crying so that I can get it all out and be present for her when Im home. I feel like a crappy parent probably 95% of the time. Your video was just what I needed to hear. Thank you!!!! I am hitting the subscribe button!!!!!
Wow. Thank you for this. I have been struggling with depression and feeling like a terrible mother, but this hit home and made me realize I'm not. I'm just going through a hard time but my kids are always my top priority even if all I can manage is cartoons and mac and cheese. ♥️