This blog post is way overdue! Please forgive me! This blog post goes out to all my post-partum momma’s! Doesn’t matter how long ago you had your baby! We all have had this journey we needed to experience. The journey of self-love, the journey of acceptance and the journey of trying to get back to who we used to be prior to children.

Now don’t get me wrong, motherhood has been the best thing to ever happen to my life. I can’t ever imagine life without my little ray of light Mali. However, we all know as mom’s things change after you do have children. Today I want to focus on the inner struggles and changes we encounter as postpartum mommies.

I know I have a few blog posts about postpartum but this one really hit near and dear. Something I was inspired to write after a live makeup video I did on my instagram. Yes, I do live makeup videos too! (Tune in on Tuesday at 9pm on my personal instagram (graceloveandcurls)) Alright, that’s out of the way! As I was saying, I was inspired this night because a dear friend of mine reminded me how proud she was to see where I was at with my makeup, etc. It really moved me because I was finally taking time to focus on me.

These Tuesday Makeup lives were more than just makeup time to me when I started them and still to this day. It is my outlet! It is the time in the week where I don’t have to be a mom, wife, sister or daughter. I am just simply a woman with a brush. Free to do w.e I please with my canvas. No one telling me they want “wah wah” LOL , no one telling me they are hungry (hubby LOL) , no one telling me they need anything from me. It was something I really needed.

I focused so much on my family and being a stay at home mom and all, that I forgot about myself. I think this is something a lot of mother’s encounter on their postpartum journey. I wasn’t losing the baby weight and that really took a toll on my self-esteem, I wasn’t fixing myself up as I usually did prior to baby. It wasn’t until I decided that enough was enough that I started feeling better.

It was time for me to dedicate time to myself. I started working out, fixing myself up, doing my makeup and doing all the things I did prior to having a baby. As women it is so important for us to find something that is just for us. Something that does not involve us being a wife or mother. We need an outlet or a hobby of some sort. This really helped me get my groove back!

I lost weight and started taking care of myself once again. I became a priority alongside my family. Don’t ever feel ashamed of making yourself a priority as well. If momma is not good, baby is not good and hubby is not good. YOU ARE IMPORTANT TOO!

Now, I can’t take the credit. The Lord came through for me because I decided to put him first as well. Nothing in life will ever be in order if our spiritual lives are not in order. I needed to just hit the RESET button on everything. Once again put God in his rightful place. Sit God back down in His throne in my life. Through prayer and reading the word God gave me the confidence I once lacked. He gave me value again and reminded me that I am more than a mother, more than a wife and more than a sister. ABOVE ALL I was a DAUGHTER OF THE MOST HIGH! Once I realized that, I knew I couldn’t stay in this funk for long. God needed me to position myself again where He wanted me. Enough of being on idle.

Not only did momma get her groove back, but momma got her sword back. 😉

Sincerely,

Eli<3