Why you Need Fresh Energy as a Home-ed Parent
- Sarah-Jane Cobley
- Oct 18, 2023
- 3 min read
Your energy is not what it was. You know it’s not simply your older age. Since you’ve had your second or third child, and years have rolled on relatively unchecked, you find yourself waking up. A little bit of light is creeping into the cracks and showing you that space is opening up. Could this space finally be for you?
How it got this way
For years you’ve prioritised your children’s needs, they were so much younger before, rhythms and family systems had yet to be established. Things were constantly challenging, and seemed to have no space for even contemplating me time, let alone getting it.
Every single need of your children’s was met by you, no matter if you were too tired, lacking motivation, feeling exhausted, alone or disheartened.
Then automation sets in and somehow you’ve ended up on autopilot, doing things that seemed absolutely necessary before, but now you’re not so sure.
You notice that many years have passed and you still feel ‘on-call’ 24/7, and spend most of your waking hours attending to the needs of your children, or preparing for them.
You’re always doing something for someone else. Always.
Realisation
Things are still challenging, you’ve chosen a high tension job being a home-ed parent. However, could this automation have opened up the potential for turning some attention your way?
As awareness dawns, “gosh, I’m allowing myself to think about the fact that my health needs attention”. There hasn’t been space to go there in years.
Some curiosity is creeping in.
Could this mean there’s a little space for my needs now?
“I think I may have let it go to far. I’ve been living with these health limitations for quite some time. They just seem to have crept in. I’ve ignored them and carried on. Now I’m worried about the implications of not addressing them. I really don’t want to put up with them anymore”.
The Challenges
The thought of turning attention to your health needs after all these years of laying them aside feels daunting.
What if it rocks the boat?
It might upset the current family status quo. “I’ve always been the one responsible for everything. If I bring my health needs into the mix, would I be letting other things slip?”
Where to start? The web is information overload, visiting the GP probably won’t help, natural options are a preference, yet getting clued up on that angle feels like a minefield.
You’d really love some help with this.
What it means to have fresh energy to home-educate
If you had fresh energy to home-educate, what would it mean to you? What would it mean to your family?
Would it mean you’d have more access to your creativity to meet the demands of home-ed, such as opposing needs of family members, under/over-scheuling, etc…
Would it mean your capacity to hold whatever comes up would expand? Allowing you to transform daily tensions and conflicts with ease?
Would it mean your self-belief and motivation would grow, allowing you to evolve smoothly with each new age and stage?
Would it mean having the capacity to address these health issues that have crept in?
Would it mean freedom from these health concerns?
And modelling self-care to your children?
And more joy and ease?
What would it mean to you to gain fresh energy as you continue to home-educate?
Webinar Invitation
I’m hosting a webinar all about ‘How to Find Fresh Energy for Home-educating’. As a herbalist and health coach, I take a natural approach including herbs and lifestyle medicine.
If this sounds like something for you, join me on Thursday 27th October at 10am!
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