We’re almost through this week of daily exercises – nice job, Mama! Don’t worry, if you’re just joining us now you can pick up right here and reference The MOPS Blog for the previously posted daily exercises. It doesn’t matter …
DAY 3 – Easy Daily Exercises You Can Do at Home
Hump Day! You’ve made it to Day 3 of our weekly workout with our friend, Samantha Costello, founder of Core Fit. Congratulations! Remember, exercise is key to staying healthy emotionally and physically, so let’s keep doing this together! #MOPSMamas DAY …
DAY 2 – Easy Daily Exercises You Can Do at Home
We’re on Day 2 of our weekly workout with our friend, Samantha Costello, founder of Core Fit. Remember, exercise is key to staying healthy emotionally and physically, so let’s keep doing this together! #MOPSMamas DAY 2 Workout: Do each exercise …
Easy Daily Exercises You Can Do at Home
We may be stuck at home, but it’s still so important that we take care of ourselves. Exercise is a must to help you keep your sanity in a time of self-imposed quarantines and shelter in place orders. So we …
4 Things You Can Ask To Go Deeper
There is a special kind of loneliness that comes with being a mother, especially of young children. Your life is consumed by the details of their day, leaving little room for you to pay attention to your own. You crave …
6 Gifts to Give Yourself and Your Family This Christmas
The Christmas season is almost upon us, and if you’re like most moms you’re both anticipating it with joy and approaching it with a bit of dread. After all, the weeks from Thanksgiving Day (in the U.S.) through Christmas and …
The Holy Grail of Motherhood
Nothing like becoming fatally anemic to get a heavy dose of “Mom Time Out.” Spending some time in the hospital hooked up to fluids and a blood transfusion gave me plenty of precious minutes I don’t normally have to think …
A Body To Die For
For almost 40 years now, my body has been a work in progress. What started as the translucent body of a longed-after-baby has transformed through the years from the skin-and-bones body of a daredevil toddler, to the supple body of …
The Self-Care Analogy That Curls My Toes
People love to preach self-care to new mothers and almost always follow up with the line, “You have to put on your own oxygen mask first, you know.” If we are trying to clarify how a mother should prioritize her …
Why Is It so Hard to Say “I’m Sorry” and Really Mean It?
It seems easy enough, right? We tell our children to apologize and “mean it.” But we see them struggle to conjure up sincerity when they are still hot from the difficult moment. Moms are sometimes guilty of oversimplifying this lesson …