Happy Through Trials: Post-Partum Anxiety is Real3

4.  Meditation/Prayer/Read Scriptures.  This one is huge.  I try and meditate every day.  Some days that comes solely in the form of prayer.  I love to talk to my Father in Heaven and leave my cares at his feet.  I love to converse with him and get to feel of his spirit.  I also love to meditate in the quiet mornings or nights.  The best place to do that for me is in my daughters' bedroom when they are asleep.  I will go in there and either sit or lay and listen to them breathe.  It is very calming and it helps me focus on the breaths.  (Yeah.  I get it.  I'm obsessed with my girls.)  Scriptures are another thing that mean so much to me because I can receive some pretty amazing guidance from the words in the scriptures.  

5.  Rest.  I always laughed and still do when people say, "Sleep when the baby sleeps."  "Yeah yeah", I used to think.  It is funny because how in the world are you supposed to get ANYTHING else done if you sleep when they sleep.  However, with that said it is true to do at times.  The house can wait.  I needed that rest some days and it was very important to me so that I could physically keep going.  It also helped me to be a more patient person if I would get enough rest. Everything seems so much worse when I don't have enough sleep or rest in my day. 

6.  Nights off.  I have talked about this many, many times.  This is so important for moms.  I can not stress it enough.  We need to take care of ourselves.  We need to feed our own passions.  That does not mean I am not passionate about my family.  It means I need time to fill up MY tank.  I need to strengthen my talents.  I need time to do the things I love.  If I have time for myself to focus on something I want to do then I notice a HUGE decline in my anxiety.  So ladies...it's okay to take nights off!