Just Keep Showing Up | 10 Minute Take Away

Just keep showing up. Showing up is going to look different on different days - but do not give up. Do not think that because you aren't perfect, you can't show up. Show up for your kids, for your spouse, for your friends ... and for yourself. Do not forget to show up for YOU!

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Hi, I'm Kara. Welcome to the today. I am in a podcast where together, we learn how to embrace imperfection and the messes that life leaves behind and overcome our shortcomings together. We will begin to not only see, but to feel who we truly are and who God created us to become.

I am so glad you're here with me today. I hope you listened to last week's episode. Of the podcast with Michelle Cox, she shared some incredible information, incredible tips, and shared her incredible story. And I'm so grateful that she was willing to do that. So today I want to talk about showing up in last week's podcast.

Michelle's daughter said, mom, just make sure the parents know to just show. It is hard to just show up. Sometimes it's so difficult when we felt like we need to be perfect. And that is a lie and an expectation that we put on ourselves, it is totally and completely unreasonable. If you think about it, we, hopefully we all know that our kids are not going to be perfect and they're going to have shortcomings and that they're learning.

Just because we're adults, just because we have children just because we're old enough to have children does not mean that that same expectation should not be given to ourselves. We are learning. I have never been a mother to a 16 year old until a few months ago, and I have never been a parent of a 14 year old daughter.

I've been a parent of a 13 year old son, but not my 13 year old he's different than my 16 year old was. And so. We just need to show up. We just need to show up and do the best you can. That is literally all the expectation that you need to put on yourself that you can show up in the best way possible.

And we talk about this all the time on the podcast, that that is going to look different day to day, like some days. You just can't like, you just can't show up and they do all the things and cook all the meals and clean up the dishes and do all the laundry and do your job and all these things.

Sometimes you can't do it all. And so you can't have that expectation that just because you did it all on Monday and you were really awesome at doing all the things on your list Tuesday doesn't mean you're going to get everything down on your list either. So being forgiving, I'm guessing. And setting realistic expectations day to day is so important because our day-to-day changes, how we feel changes, what we need to do, changes what is demanded of us changes.

There are certain things you have to do on certain days there's appointments that you have that are going to make it so that you can't clean all the things all day or whatever. Sometimes the child is sick. And so that can throw a wrench in your day, but it doesn't mean you should stop showing. When your kids get home from school, if you have the opportunity to be there, show up, just ask them how they're doing, ask them specific questions instead of just, Hey, how was your name?

Because the older they get, they're just gonna be like, it was fine. Maybe your elementary kids already do that. I don't know. A lot of my kids have done that for a long time. So be really specific, ask them who they sat with at lunch, ask them what one of their, like a funny part of their day was, or. Ask them, um,