Think back on this past week, what kind of memories do you have from your motherhood experience?

I recently listened to Meik Wiking talk about the Art of Making Memories and it got me thinking about how we treat our memories and how they can impact our motherhood experience in positive or negative ways. 

 

Full transcript at the bottom of this post. 

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Studies related to this episode:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/remember-bad-times-better-than-good1.htm

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m_blog/we-change-our-memories-each-time-we-recall-them-but-that-doesnt-mean-were-l

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254527/

 

 

Episode Transcript

Welcome to the simple on purpose podcast. This is your weekly podcast where I remind you that you have enough who are not that you do enough to just show up for the life you have and just enjoy the life before you.

For those of you who are new here, welcome. I am a mom of three living in small town Canada. I am a minimalist, a life coach. And I've been writing at simple on purpose.ca for a number of years now, talking all about simplifying your home and simplifying your life and showing up for your life.

As many of you have experienced, it's just been a weird week, hasn't it? Like, we are also at Spring Break here. So the kids are home, we are doing renovations. So my office is kind of spread out throughout the house. I'm recording in my bedroom right now with some different equipment. And we're all kind of watching to see what happens with the Coronavirus and watching the news, watching the world around us and staying home.

And for some of us like our family. Staying home comes naturally. We do it often, we live really simply. But for some that can feel really uncomfortable. You want to get out there you want to do stuff that's kind of the way you've lived. So if this is the opposite, I can really appreciate how panicky that must feel and how stressful that must feel. And I don't want to turn this podcast episode into another narration on how we're dealing with it and how the world should deal with it. Because we're hearing enough of that. What I really want to talk about today is memories, making memories and the kind of memories that we're making in motherhood. And I think it still fits with the changes that we're going through and the way that we have to show up right now in these difficult days that we have this unique experience that will be a memory at the end, it will be something we look back on and remember, and how do we want to remember that.

So as many of us moms know, we have had seasons of parenting that have been hard and maybe even painful. Like I can think about just being at home with three kids under four and the hard days, the stressful days managing babies and toddlers, and maybe going on a road trip and being emotionally scarred for life by that. And now that the kids are older, they're five, seven, and my oldest just turned nine.

There are still days where I am just so overwhelmed. Like they're fighting with one another. There's always toothpaste in the sink, always like what kind of people are we raising. And for some reason, out of all the Winter Gloves we bought this year, and we bought many, there's only the right hand the left, I've set up a box of right hand gloves, and touques. This is life though.

But throughout my parenting years,