You have a young child, a husband, and a job you enjoy for the most part. On the outside, you seem to always have a smile on your face. On the inside, you feel stretched thin. You accommodate everyone else’s needs at work and at home, at the expense of your own needs.
You’ve put on a few extra pounds and not doing those me-time activities that you wish you had time for, stuff like going to your favorite Pilates class and seeing your girlfriends more than once every couple of months. Your child demands a lot of your attention and you want to be the good wife and take care of your husband and take care of the house and take care of the problems at work and take care of the extended relatives. You put on a happy face for others, meanwhile you’re crying inside. You rarely let others see the sad part of you, that feels all this pressure.
You want to put yourself first, to speak up for your needs, say no when you need to without feeling guilty, and to ask for the changes you feel need to be made at work. And you're also scared to admit all this even to yourself.
You’ve put on a few extra pounds and not doing those me-time activities that you wish you had time for, stuff like going to your favorite Pilates class and seeing your girlfriends more than once every couple of months. Your child demands a lot of your attention and you want to be the good wife and take care of your husband and take care of the house and take care of the problems at work and take care of the extended relatives. You put on a happy face for others, meanwhile you’re crying inside. You rarely let others see the sad part of you, that feels all this pressure.
You want to put yourself first, to speak up for your needs, say no when you need to without feeling guilty, and to ask for the changes you feel need to be made at work. And you're also scared to admit all this even to yourself.
