You Are the World They Grow In

There’s something I’ve been reflecting on lately—something I feel more mothers need to hear:

Your peace is not a luxury. It’s not selfish. It’s not a bonus if there’s time. It is the foundation of your children’s world.

We live in times where fear is everywhere -politics, the economy, the news, even playground chatter. It’s easy to feel pulled into it all; to believe we must join the collective panic to be responsible or informed.

But here's the thing I know in my bones now: Our nervous systems are teaching our children how to live. Our self-talk becomes their inner voice. Our ability to pause, to soften, to trust shapes them.

I believe in the Divine. And I believe that when I tend to myself, when I speak kindly to myself, when I breathe through the hard moments and remember that I’m supported, I’m not just doing it for me. I’m doing it for them. I am doing it for everyone I have ever known and Loved.

Because when a mother chooses peace, she changes the atmosphere of the home. When a mother believes in possibility, her children grow up knowing what faith feels like. When a mother honors her own heart, she teaches her daughters that they are sacred, and her sons that women are holy.

This isn’t spiritual bypassing. It’s spiritual responsibility.

The old paradigm told us to martyr ourselves. To go last. To ignore our needs in the name of “good mothering.” But that model is broken. The truth is, it begins and ends with you. Your children don’t need a perfect mother. They need a present one. A soft one. A real one. One who shows them what it means to be human and divinely held.

So, breathe. Love yourself with the tenderness you give so freely to them. Hold your own heart as you hold theirs. This is how we shape the future, for them and for the world they live in. Not through fear. But through the frequency of a woman who knows her worth. A mother who remembers that she, too, is a child of the One.