01/26/2022
Hey y'all, sorry for the delay in content this past week, I've been taking care of a sick baby, which, spoiler alert: forced me to be flexible!!
Our little guy spiked a fever over the weekend that lasted into Monday, so I had to practice psychological flexibility in many ways! Needless to say, my usual schedule was definitely interrupted 😂
You know what else happened though? Our self-trust in parenting G R E W 💗
On Monday night, we took Carter's temperature and it had broken from 101.1 for the past 48 hours down to 99.8. Ryan looked at me, pumped his fist and said "We did it! We're parenting!!!"
Even though we've been parenting for the past 4 months (and then some, arguably), this moment was a turning point for us. We rearranged our norm - I rescheduled clients, Ryan stayed home alone with C for the first time all day, we adjusted feeding and sleeping patterns, took care of the dogs differently etc. Was it a nightmare, you betcha! Did we survive? Hell ya we did. And now we know exactly what to do next time!
If we would have stayed rigid in our schedule, there would have been consequences for everyone - Carter would have been miserable at daycare, he could have gotten other babies sick, I would have been distracted at work, Ryan would still feel like he wasn't parenting (jk 😂) But instead, we all made huge gains.
So think of this anecdote the next time you think to yourself, "do I really need to practice flexibility..?" Because the answer is Y E S. Tell me below, how have you built self trust through flexibility lately?! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼