Exhausted Homeschool Mom? 8 Things That Will Give You Hope
About this episode
In this episode, Teresa Wiedrick discusses the struggles of exhausted homeschool moms and offers hope through eight key insights.
You’re the exhausted homeschool mom — you must serve, you must nurture, and you must provide. If you identify as the exhausted homeschool mom, ‘ve learned that you’re pushing beyond your capacity. You’re making loads of decisions before lunch, absorbing everyone’s emotions like they’re yours, and by evening you have nothing left — not for yourself, sometimes not even for the people you love most. Likely, you’re not treating yourself like a human being who has needs. You’re a mother, so you must serve, you must nurture, and you must provide. And though that calling is beautiful — deeply, genuinely beautiful — somewhere along the way the role swallowed the woman. You’ve disappeared inside your own life. And you feel it, even if you haven’t had words for it until now. I’ve been homeschooling for 20 years. I’ve been coaching homeschool mamas since 2019. And in hundreds of conversations with women who are smart, devoted, and deeply committed to their families, I see the same eight struggles surface again and again. Read slowly. Notice which one makes you take a sigh of relief. That’s the one that’s been waiting to be named. What We Covered in The Exhausted Homeschool…
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