Why mommy goddess?

A Mommy Goddess asked me why I refer to us as Mommy Goddesses. That is a good question…and here is my answer: For years I have been referring to women in my life as goddesses. Why… because during my transformation in life I attended a very impactful training called Warrior Camp. In fact, Zachary and I attended together. The impact of that camp and how we came to attend is another story but at that camp, every morning, there was a yoga component and the facilitator referred to the woman as goddesses. I thought to myself…ME?!? A goddess?!? What?!? I’m not worthy of that! My mental picture of a goddess at that time and my view of myself were definitely not congruent.

Over the course of time and much work on my inner story, my beingness, I discovered the only thing preventing me from being a goddess was the story I told myself about me. I got comfortable with the term goddess, I got comfortable with being called a goddess, I got comfortable with being a goddess. I wanted to share this comfort with other goddesses. Just planting the seed in the mind of another woman that she is a goddess, has the potential, over time, to sprout and envelope her beingness in the confidence that YES, she is in fact a goddess.

For me the term “mommy” is one of, if not the most endearing words I can think of. In me, there is a special chord that is struck when one of my children calls me mommy. When our beautiful babes were born to us, we became mommies. Entrusted with The Most Important role known to mankind. We ARE the most special beings, the most special goddesses ever, as we have been the mommies entrusted with seeing our babe’s physical journeys through from start to finish. Just imagine what their journey would have been like if you were not there to support them, love them and take tender care of them in their journey here. And for some of us, their journey’s ended being more challenging then we could have ever conceived possible. I’ll never forget the moment when I was helping Zachary to the bathroom. All 6’3”, 220 lbs of him. My Marine, who could no longer lower himself onto the toilet by himself. He looked at me and said “Mom, what does someone like me do without someone like you?’ I pondered for a moment and replied, that my boy is a very good question, perhaps some don’t…

So my mommy goddess friends, who are so near and dear to my heart, we were entrusted with The Most Important Role I can ever imagine and we all did it perfectly. The only thing that stands in the way of your acceptance and belief is the story that you are telling yourself. You are all Amazing Mommy Goddesses and our children are proud and loving us and cheering us on. They are accepting of the journey through grief that we must endure and are patiently waiting for us to come through it and joyfully, (yes I said it…) joyfully experience them in our new form of relationship with them. It doesn’t mean we don’t want them back, we don’t miss them more than we can stand, it just means that , yes, there is the possibility of experiencing Joy, Peace and Happiness once again. Just keep BEing and BREATHing and when the time is right, BElieving.

From my heart to yours mommy goddess, much love!

p.s. we are warriors too 😉

originally written March 1, 2018