By Megan Youngmee
Parenting with awareness, kindness and grace in a rapidly changing world is a challenge that we have decided to take on in this lifetime. Yes, the earth is going through a transition that we know on some level we chose to be here for. It’s quite a doozy, eh? It’s the hardest role we could take on which is why self-love, self forgiveness, grace and earnestness through the process is so important to me. Recognizing the bravery in this choice is to be honored.
Many of us feel this call to shift how we parent from ways we were taught, to a new but actually old manner that is connected to the earth, our community and our inner voice and from a place of intuition and nurturing. What and incredible feat and opportunity it is to shift our previous traumas, hurts and lack of emotionally healthy examples of a mother/father figures! Especially in a deeply out of balance world that we inherited. Slowly and step-by-step with a greater vision of what can be, is how I see the process of initiation to be the mother we want to be.
Thank you for taking on this great transformation. I’ll be writing and sharing some practical tools I’ve learned along the way through this series about parenting, but first I’d like to introduce myself and share some of my intentions and overviews about how I see my role as a mama.
I’m a mom of three little boys – 6, 4 and 2 in the Andes of Peru, not far from Machu Picchu. I’m also an adoptee, from Korea, raised as a small town gal from Pennsylvania who spent a 12 year stint in Los Angeles as a former corporate design and communications professional. I am now a writer, momma, content creator and intuitive body work/trauma transformation specialist for the last 8 years.
In all honesty, as a person who had 3 mothers before I was 3 as an orphan, a foster child and an adoptee who was sexually abused for over a decade in my home- the idea of family and motherhood were and still can be the most triggering concepts and responsibilities I can think of. So I feel very humbled and many times unequipped to share any advice. I keep learning and discovering things that work for me and my family and am grateful to have a space to share, but please, take everything with a grain of salt. Take it or leave it, as I’m no perfect mom. Know that your own intuition and connection to spirit will be your greatest guide.
I pray that I fall in love more deeply with my kids, my partner, myself and life every day. I hope that I can cherish the present moments with my darlings, my little ones, my sweetie boys. They aren’t mine in an ownership sense though. I see myself as caretaker and guardian. They teach me, I teach them. We are all learning together.
I have some things that have become some of my foundational values and intentions for the role of being mom that are in progress as I learn in the next part of the series.
Megan Youngmee
Bio: A momma of three little boys – 6, 4 and 2 in the Andes of Peru, not far from Machu Picchu. A Korean American adoptee, raised as a small town gal from Pennsylvania who spent a 12 year stint in Los Angeles as a former corporate design and communications professional. Now a writer, momma, content creator and intuitive body work/trauma transformation specialist for the last 8 years.
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