Helping Moms Create a Mindfulness Practice

Most moms run on auto-pilot more often than they’d like. They plow through their days with determination and focus, and fall into bed exhausted yet satisfied that their to-do lists are completed. They plan meals, negotiate housework, shuttle kids to and from school (while playing their Suzuki CDs no less), and steal a few precious minutes at the end of it all for themselves and their partners. This is not to say that dads don’t do these things either, because they do. But as a whole, moms still take on a disproportionate amount of housework in our society, even if they also work outside the home. Interestingly, this seems to be less of an issue for same-sex couples. At any rate, this article is for moms who feel like they multi-task all the time, and feel stressed and rather unfulfilled because of it. My message to these moms (and I am one of you) is simple: Develop a mindfulness practice.