Life is not simple or slow.

Women have been told that we should be able to do it all - be a good homemaker, have a full time job, take care of everyone around us - and do it all with a smile. It’s no secret anymore that the pressure to do and have it all leads to women feeling overwhelmed and inadequate. However, while this seems to be common knowledge now, no viable solutions have been offered to us. 

The only solutions we’ve been given are to slow down, simplify our lives and be easy on ourselves. We’ve been told the answer is to set boundaries and put ourselves first. However, if you’re anything like us, you’ve tried it all and have been left feeling even worse. We believe that’s because the idleness inherent in these alleged solutions leads to feeling disconnected and purposeless. The truth is life is not simple or slow. 

Instead, we’ve found that the secret to overcoming the overwhelm is to find and cultivate the willingness within ourselves. This may sound easy, but in practice proves to be more difficult than most of us would like to admit. By embracing our ever-growing to-do lists and changing our mindset from having to get things done to getting the change to do them, we find that we are able to show up as our best selves and fulfill the need within ourselves to have meaning and belong.