how to become more you as a homeschool mama Homeschool Mama Self-Care: Nurturing the Nurturer

In a world that teaches conformity, I hope to imprint uniqueness and individuality in my children.







Our children were created and designed for a unique purpose. And so were we.







So how do you become more you as a homeschool mama?

















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How to become more you beyond your role as a homeschool mama?







We get to be more us and our kids get to become more them.







How to unearth that unique purpose in our children?







We give our children experiences to explore, we give them books to engage their curiosities, we give them tools to discover their interests, we search for people who might mentor them, and we listen and watch them.







We affirm them and we guide them; we give all these opportunities to our kids.







And one thing we do, encourage them to be more them.







Life’s not better because we try to be someone else or try to be just like everyone else.







Each of us is inherently important and valuable. So our unique approach to life, our unique purpose, how our homeschool will look, and how we engage everything will look different.

















“To be yourself, in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson





























I must encourage myself to be me too.







Just as I affirm my children in what they were meant to do and be, I also recognize that I need to do the same for myself: I must be who I am and do the things I was meant to do.







In the beginning years, I didn’t know this truth: I am not only a homeschool mama.







So, who am I outside my homeschool mama identity?







I’ll tell you a few interests I’ve followed over my homeschool years, but I know that my interests and your interests might be as far from one another as Asia to America.









* Began writing in a lowly Starbucks every Wednesday evening for two hours with a pumpkin spice latte and scone.







* Designed a home on a big piece of construction paper. (I have been doing this since I was a little girl.)







* Researched laying hens and raised three batches.







* Researched meat birds and raised eleven (put eleven in the freezer last weekend).







* Didn’t research Large Guardian Dogs, but bought one anyway. (Should have researched her, Violet, our Great Pyr.)







* Built a vegetable garden, and fruit orchard, and learned to forage and preserve.







* Built a bed & breakfast business and opened last summer. (Learned that I love interacting with new people and sharing our peaceful homestead.)







* Researched goats and hope to, one day, bring a few home.







* Started an online homeschool coaching program as I love to encourage and empower homeschool mamas to do their thang. (Cause I believe if you want to do it, you can do it!)