Mom Burnout
When my husband left for A’s wedding, I was left with the two kids. It wasn’t a physically demanding day but for some reason, I felt the most exhausted and the most drained in terms of all physical, mental, and emotional. I just started sobbing into tears when I was giving milk to my son and my daughter wanted me to join her in the playroom.
When I felt better, I decided to post the CCTV recording of me crying on Instagram. I wanted to show everybody in my followers list the real side of my day-to-day life. The tough times of my parenting and my actual meltdown.
But little that I know the video will spread like wildfire among the rest of the Instamoms. It has only been slightly more than two days but my video has already got 10.7k views, 387 likes, 20 public reshares and I have almost 40 new followers (most of them being moms).
A lot of moms could resonate with my video and I feel like it’s obviously a common occurrence among us all but it is not being spoken of enough or not being highlighted enough for people to understand that it is indeed real and it is indeed happening around us.
I was so glad my video raised awareness of mom burnouts and if anything, connected all the moms together to stay motivated to move on and move up. I started following all these Instamoms. Funny how there are a hell lot of supermoms out there on IG and when they post about their daily lives, to me it looks like a collection of little accomplishments achieved daily. Seeing how they have managed to pull through every single day, makes me feel so much motivated to go through with my days no matter how tough it gets. I like that my positive vibes increase with every Instamom I’ve followed and I’m going to continue doing that to remind myself that I’m not alone, I belong with these moms and everything shall pass.
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