Meant to Bloom: because burnout shouldn't be your baseline

Mama, this conversation isn't easy to have, but this is one other part of life you need to let be easy - YOU. ;)  I know I've got into a terrible habit of blocking my own joy, pleasure, ecstasy.... Have you? Are you in a habit of creating barriers between you and your spouse? Do you suddenly "have a headache" when any opportunity for intimacy arises? Or am I totally alone on this one...??&nbs...

Hey friend, it's my birthday!  And of course, you're the one I want to spend it with. I love that you're here, I so appreciate you letting me into your life here, I'm very grateful to have you. This episode is short and sweet: I just wanted to share with you how I spend my birthday, the realization that I knew my mom when she was my age, and the 2 things I really really want for my birthday -...

As you may know, I’m currently in a season of letting peripheral things go or be as easy as possible in order to very peacefully prioritize my life. My focus right now is on family and I’m trying to let my actions reflect that, and be very intentional with how my time is spent. There’s two absolute truths: 1. Easy isn’t always simple. & 2. Guilt is garbage. This last year I put a heavy focus on le...

Sign up here for the Mindset Realign Challenge happening January 30, 2023! I know it’s all about New Year, New Me right now - but I’m not falling for that this year. I’m finally happy with who I am. I may still find myself struggling to love myself, but I know who I am and why I exist and I believe that we are each, individually, created perfectly for our purposes. I’m happy with who I am - it fee...

I know it sounds like it doesn’t work, but I promise it does. When we push ourselves to burn out, we end up missing out on life as it’s happening and we end up missing our target much of the time. On the flip side, when we pull back, we savor the sweet moments of the present and we align our shot, the arrow flies true. We hit the target. I’m pulling back, and I’m promising myself an enjoyable and...

It’s a busy season and it’s really easy to forget about yourself. I know, I forgot about myself too. We had a month of sickness in our house and I missed out on a lot of nights of good sleep, then I depended on coffee for energy and screwed with my digestion and my hormones and my adrenals and all that stuff. This sleep deprivation and lack of nutrition and hydration led me into an emotional exhau...

I've heard too many women bad mouthing their husbands behind their backs. I've heard even more women nagging and verbally assaulting their husbands to their faces (I'm one of them, oops). I recorded this conversation with my friend, Kate, last year and I have to admit, it was helpful to revisit some of the wisdom in this chat. Being mindful in your marriage of how you're talking to yourself and to...

You’ve heard the idiom to dress for the job you want, but today I’m not talking about just your clothes. It’s your attitude, your habits, your mindset. Becoming the next best version of you doesn’t have to be super complicated, yeah it’s gonna be work, but it’s worthwhile work. Don’t wait until New Year to decide what new habit you want to start, or old one to drop. Choose now, who you want to BE...

Hey mama, let’s unnormalize peeing your pants a little when you sneeze. If you’re out of the loop like me, you just found out that incontinence of any kind (even a little bit) isn’t okay and Kegels are NOT the answer. So, what the heck are we supposed to do then? Today I am joined by Pauli Hannan from Beyond the V, she’s a mom who understands that you don’t have a ton of time or energy to start so...

The holidays can be a major trigger for some (maybe most) people More time together, more expectations, more financial strain, more to-do yet during a time when your mind, body and soul is screaming at you to rest and slow down and savor the moments. How to keep your sanity and keep your loved ones feeling loved: quality time, clear communication, intentional self-care. Get the Happy Mom Method He...

I believe motherhood is awesome and all those hard parts aren’t really motherhood. The hardest parts of motherhood should be watching our kids struggle to learn something new, or going through a heart break. Keeping up with dishes, stressing about what schooling options to choose, getting behind on laundry, and feeling like you’re not an absolute MILF, shouldn’t be the “hard parts of motherhood.”...

I know what it feels like to be faking gratitude. I know how it feels to have lost faith in humanity, to feel unseen, to feel afraid of your own voice, to feel so alone yet surrounded by others. I know what it’s like to be judged for everything you say aloud, to be criticized, to feel unsafe, to feel undervalued. I know how that feels and yet, I know how to still be so rooted and so certain of wha...

I wanna have a serious chat with you today about doing the things you know you’re supposed to be doing. Too often we get caught up in the excitement of all the fun ways to practice self-care, but when it comes down to it, none of that really matters if you aren’t taking care of your basic needs first. Who cares if you’ve just had a mani-pedi when you haven’t had enough sleep. No amount of retail t...

Everything mentioned in this episode can be found here: BrittniClarkson.com Are you still stressing about the holidays and totally lost on the concept of letting it be easy? I got you. Join me in listening to today’s episode of Meant to Bloom where I continue this series of embracing ease and joy in this season of life. Today we’re chatting about your authenticity, your vulnerability, how you feel...

Everything mentioned in this episode can be found here: BrittniClarkson.com Okay, Mama Scrooge. The holidays are happening. I don’t know if you go into the holidays with the Bah-Humbug spirit or if it just creeps in as you undergo the heavy stress of carrying every event, gift, plan, and meal on your shoulders, or if it happens in the moment your sanity snaps at Christmas Eve dinner with the in-la...

We’ve all been there, in a rage over something minor, worked up over an inconvenience, flying into a panic attack out of nowhere, then someone says: “just calm down” and everything intensifies. You get hit with that burning hot desire to just throat punch them. But what if we didn’t get angry when someone says this to us, what if we really did “just calm down?” Today I want to share with you my th...

I’m no parenting expert, but I do my best. One of the trickiest parts of motherhood for me right now is the waiting and the trusting. Waiting for my kids to “do it themselves” and trusting that it’s worth the extra time for them to learn to do it themselves. Currently we’re also working on breaking those ingrained habits of creating punishments for our kids' defiant behavior. I’m talking about the...

The other day I had a friend message me and ask “what does a restful day look like for you?” And that got me thinking, how many busy, high achieving, mamas need to know what it looks like to actually rest? Rest doesn’t just come as spa days, silent evenings with a cup of tea, or hours on hours of cuddling up in a chair and reading your favorite comfort novel. Rest can look like an adventure throug...

I’m excited to share this amazing interview with you all today. I had the blessing of meeting up Abby Haggard of The Fullness Show to chat about her new course releasing this week. There’s so much heart and fire in Abby when she talks about freeing up your time and space to show up fully for the ones you love more. I can’t wait for you to meet her and glean the wisdom and divine inspiration from h...

I know that to-do list is insane right now and you want to get a lot of things done before the holidays consume you… You feel pulled in so many directions with a 1000 things you have to do. I’m here to slap you in the face in the best way I know how. My friend, you don’t HAVE to do anything. I want you to see the power in your perception, alter the way you view reality and wake up to the realizati...

The words we use are important to the life we are choosing to live. The way you talk about yourself matters. The way you talk about your life matters. If you want to make a change and start living a better life, to rise to a higher version of yourself , you’ve got to start talking about yourself and your life as if you’re already there. You don’t heal your depression by talking to yourself like yo...

Burn out is real and it fricking sucks. I’ve shared a lot of tips for preventing the burn out, letting life be easy, and letting go of the stress of the little things, but I haven’t shared much about getting through the burn out when you’re deep in it. It might be hard to take care of yourself right now, it might seem like it’s just one extra thing to do on top of your already overwhelming and end...

I tried to research the statistics for how common anxiety disorders are, but it started giving me an anxiety attack. I wish I were kidding about that. There seems to be a wide variety of statistics to choose from here, anywhere between 3% and 18% of the US population has anxiety. Those feel incredibly inaccurate from my experience. It leads you to believe anxiety is uncommon, like you’re alone in...

I feel like too often, us moms, exclude ourselves from the idea of living a dream life. Mama, I can’t let you do that. You're meant to live your dream life. You’re meant for life to the fullest. You’re meant for abundant blessings. And it’s likely that you’ve already got a life full of blessing and abundance, you’ve just trained your brain not to see that. It’s easy to get caught up in all the neg...

I have this theory that we block the joy from our own lives, whether that’s because we feel undeserving of it or because we simply feel uncomfortable with the unknown. I believe that we are meant for joy and peace and too often we let ourselves get caught up in the mundane, day to day tasks of life. We lose sight of what’s truly important to us because we are blinded by stress and urgency. Here’s...