I am a mom of four children between the ages of 6 and 15, and of course I love my children more than anything. At the same time, being a mom means responding to four completely different personalities, emotions, and needs every day. For me, four children also mean four different ways of needing me as a mom.
And then, at IntuPARENT, came that one question that triggered an incredible amount in me:
Who actually were you before you had children?
This question really hit me. Because I suddenly realized how long I hadn't thought about it anymore.
Who was I anyway, before I became a mom? What did I want? What did I dream of? What made me happy? What defined me?
With the birth of my children, my entire life changed. I became a mom. First for one child, then for two, three, and finally four. And with each child came new tasks, new worries, new responsibilities, but of course also an incredible amount of love.
At some point, being a mom became so much of a given that I lost sight of a part of myself in the process.
IntuPARENT has repeatedly reminded me that behind the mom there is also the woman I was before and the woman I am today. That my own story, my experiences, my wishes, my feelings, and my background are just as much a part of our family life as the needs of my children.
Especially with four children, I notice every day how different children can be. Each of my children needs something different from me. One might need closeness right now, while another needs space. One wants to talk, while another needs some time to themselves first. And right in the middle is me, trying every day to do justice to each and every child.
At the same time, IntuPARENT also made me much more consciously aware of my own reactions.
Why does a specific situation make me so emotional? Why does something one of my children say sometimes hurt me so much? Why can I stay completely calm in one situation and suddenly become incredibly emotional in another?
As a result, I started looking much more deeply.
On my children, but also on myself.
Some questions from the workbooks really touched me and occupied my thoughts even days later. Because they triggered topics inside me for which there is often simply no room in everyday life. Between four children, work, school, appointments, household chores, and everything that has to be organized every day, I rarely ask myself quite consciously: And how am I actually doing with all of this?
IntuPARENT gave me precisely this space.
For me, it was almost like a journey back to myself at times. To the woman I was before my children, and at the same time, to the woman and mom I have become through my children.
Because of course my children have changed me. Every single one of them. They have made me grow, challenged me, pushed me to my limits, taught me an incredible amount about love, and shown me sides of myself that I didn't even know existed before.
And perhaps it's not even about me becoming the woman I was before my children again.
It is about remembering her.
To understand what of her is still inside me, what has changed, and who I actually am today.
That is exactly what IntuPARENT triggered in me.
Today, I am paying more attention to what my children need and, at the same time, to what certain situations do to me. I see our different personalities from a different perspective once again and have thought incredibly much about myself.
That is why IntuPARENT has become something very personal to me.
Because in the end, for me, it's about so much more than just understanding our children.
It is also about finding ourselves again.
Like a mom.
As a woman.
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