Your children are not the burden
I know it feels that way sometimes
I know it feels like motherhood is holding you back
I know the 8 million snacks and the temper tantrums and the 18 hours it takes to get into the car feel like a
distraction and a limitation sometimes. An obstacle to your career success. To your freedom. To your ability to just BE.
I know this is hard.
But.
Don't let them convince you that motherhood is inherently stressful.
It's not true.
Raising children in a misogynistic, patriarchal apocalyptic world IS stressful.
You are at battle. Healing hearts in a broken world
Raising light worker amidst the flames and smoldering ashes
You are rearing a revolution.
No wonder you're tired!
The systems were never built to support us.
I'm going to say it again.
THE SYSTEMS WERE NEVER BUILT TO SUPPORT US!
We are mothering against the current. Loving and healing in opposition to a society intent on keeping us disconnected and numb. Scared and sinking in debt. Resentful and exhausted and too drained to see how we're being played like pawns.
But.
Motherhood is not a curse.
Our children are not a burden
They are the magic
The medicine
The future
The dream
They are everything that is true and good and real in this world
They hold us down
Root is into what really matters.
They are the revolution
They bring us home.
They give us hope.
So.
Next time you're questioning your life choices and
drowning in existential dread
Remember.
Their wildness and noise and "disobedience" are
admirable. We need brave leaders.
Their big feelings and slow pace are traits to mimic. Slow the F down. Feel your feels.
Your children are not a burden.
They are our greatest blessing.
They are here to teach us
To lead us back to our truth
To our natural state of being
To limitless joy and unconditional love and the very reason we exist on this planet.
Words and Art by Catie Atkinson
