Do you ever get stressed and then feel stressed about being stressed?? 🤣 You know you're "supposed to" keep stress levels low. High stress impacts your health in all kinds of ways. So, stressing about how stressed you are is not helping. You know this, but it's so hard to stop! I get it. I'm right there with you.

A second brain can be a great way to share household responsibilities by making information readily available. With a shared school second brain, any adult in your household can call your child in sick or send an email to the teacher with a question about that project that's due! Here are some other categories or notebook pages that I'm in the process of creating (just to give you some ideas).

When someone suggests trying to “do less” a working mom immediately has a million questions. How could I possibly do less? What would I have to delete from my life in order to do less? Everything is a priority, so what could I possibly eliminate? But doing less isn’t necessarily about removing things from your life, but instead about listening to yourself and your energy level, being present and focusing in a different way.

The decision to work or to quit is less about the reason for making the choice than it is about how the decision is being made. A working mom who wants to change her life by quitting her job has power; when she feels that she must quit her job, she has none. There are steps you can take, work you can do, to put yourself in a position of power.