A Simpler Motherhood: Curating Contentment, Savoring Slow, and Making Room for What Matters Most (Tips for Moms, Simplify Parenting, School-Age Children) - Softcover

Eusanio, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 164250808X ISBN 13: 9781642508086

Publisher: TMA Press, 2022

Synopsis

Discover Minimalism for Moms and Simplify Parenting

#1 New Release in Parenting & Family Reference, Teenagers, and Time Management

In A Simpler Motherhood, Emily’s on a mission to remove stress from the lives of moms and busy families seeking less stuff and more joy in their daily life.

Filled with  tips for moms for easy yet powerful lifestyle changes. Emily’s approach makes minimalism for moms stress-free and achievable, and helps to simplify parenting.  Learn to declutter your mind and home on this fun journey to living and parenting with more purpose and joy, and less stress!

Intentional living made simple and stress-free. A Simpler Motherhood reveals tangible ways for mothers everywhere to simplify parenting. Slow down the pace in your home, your schedule, and your heart and head. Discover simple tips for moms, actionable suggestions, and tailored solutions to declutter each aspect of motherhood.

Accessible minimalism for moms. When people think of motherhood, they think of a perfectly tidy home, a curated wardrobe, and gourmet meals cooked from scratch, but that isn’t realistic. A Simpler Motherhood makes minimalism for moms attainable, affordable, and stress-free for even the busiest or messiest of moms. 

Inside:

• Discover how to simplify parenting in a more stress-free way, without guilt or “systems”
• Create a stronger marriage through communication, intentional planning, and a commitment to less
• Re-establish a connection with your faith and learn to relinquish control over everything

If you liked Declutter Like a Mother, The Family Firm, Mindfulness Journal for Parents, or Simplicity Parenting, then you’ll love A Simpler Motherhood.

About this title

About the Author

Emily Eusanio, better known to her loyal followers as The Simplified Mom, is a part-time blogger and full-time mom of four children under seven who seeks to help mothers everywhere rediscover the joys of motherhood. With a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in psychology, Emily has always pursued ways to help others discover how to lead happier, better lives. After creating her first blog on Instagram, @the.simplified.mom, just one year ago and quickly growing her audience to more than 34,000 followers, she’s found a passion for helping women like her discover the true joys of simpler living every day. 

With a quickly growing audience of engaged followers, Emily’s blog on Instagram, @the.simplified.mom, has attracted mothers everywhere with her inspiring daily posts on simpler motherhood. Whether it be a way to declutter and simplify your kitchen cabinets, easier ways to meal plan and stay on a budget, or just a reminder that motherhood is meant to be lived, not hurried through, Emily’s daily posts attract an average of more than 10,000 daily views. With previous experience in marketing and advertising, and a solid understanding of social media marketing, her blog serves as a strong platform to promote the joys of living with less to mothers everywhere on an daily basis.

Emily has partnered in the past with several well-known brands to promote their products and gain a growing audience. Her posts have been featured on the social media accounts of top companies, such as Pyrex, Thermos, Chicco, Day Designer, Branch Basics, Full Circle, Ruggable, LoveEvery and Magnatiles. Emily has been featured by The Spruce as one of the 11 Best Instagram Accounts For Minimalists (5/2020) and has conducted interviews for well-established podcasts, including The Minimalist Moms Podcast, hosted by Diane Boden, and The Everyday Motherhood Podcast, hosted by Christy Thomas.

With her experience in counseling and a strong passion for simplifying, Emily is able to relate to her readers daily with real-life, relatable scenarios and simple, easy ways to squeeze more joy from motherhood and slow down enough to enjoy the everyday. As a reformed over-shopping, under-budgeting, list-making, onto-bigger-and-better first-time mom, Emily has seen the stresses and sadness of a motherhood with too much everything. By decluttering every aspect of her life, removing the extra and stripping things down to just the essentials, Emily rebuilt her motherhood from the ground up, finding ways to find joy in the everyday while living with less, staying under budget, slowing down her commitments and learning to become more present in the moment. Through her own learning, she was able to find systems, routines and rhythms that worked to maintain a life and a home while also granting her more space – and she is ready to share that knowledge with mothers everywhere so that they can find the same in their own lives.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Life wasn’t always so simple for me.

In fact, it was the presence of way too much of everything that encouraged me to pursue a simpler, slower motherhood. To chase after a life intentionally absent of all the extra: stuff, people, commitments, standards. I was six months postpartum and absolutely drowning in the weight of it all.

From the outside, my life looked exactly as I had dreamed it would. I was a stay-at-home mom with our beautiful son. We owned a lovely four-bedroom cape cod in one of the best school districts in the city. We drove expensive, pretty cars, owned pretty new things, and wore pretty new clothing.

And yet, I was pretty dang miserable.

We were doing our best to survive on one income - and yet we spent every penny we made. The stress rose in my chest each month as we dutifully made all the payments to our student loan debt, a mortgage payment slightly too large for our means, and credit card bills for frivolous, unnecessary purchases that we didn’t need – especially on such a tight budget.

I was a floundering first-time mom. My son and I took daily trips through the Starbucks drive-thru, me ordering up a Grande flat white while he nodded off for his morning nap in the car seat. I made weekly visits to Target, browsing the aisles in search of items that would make motherhood easier, better and prettier. I spent my days glued to Google, searching for the perfect cleaning routine. The perfect sleep schedule. The perfect meal plans. And then I’d collapse at the end of the afternoon, too exhausted to cook dinner. So, I’d pick up the phone and order pizza delivery or sushi takeout instead of eating what was already right there in the fridge.

By all accounts, I had “made” it. I was living the suburban mom dream. Yet ironically, I was more unsettled and unsatisfied than I’d ever been. I was consuming and doing too much of everything. I was measuring my success by the tasks I accomplished; the schedules I adhered to; the projects I completed. The good days were marked by a completed to-do list; an obedient, well-dressed and well-napped baby, and a perfectly tidied home. And yet, I’d go to bed at the end of the day with a sense of emptiness. Something was missing.

It was then that the voice started. At first, it was just a whisper. A gentle request to slow down; to stop the constant hustle; the relentless quest for the perfect motherhood. It quietly rose, echoing through our newly redecorated halls and over the piles of unworn baby clothing, tags still attached. It urged me to listen; to change my ways. To stop focusing so intensely on how everything in my life looked—and to instead care more about how everything felt. And yet each time it rose above a whisper, I quickly quieted it back down by loading up the Amazon cart with a few more unnecessary items, reorganizing the playroom toys into a color-coordinated order, or scrubbing my baseboards, intently certain that it would make everything better.

 Except it didn’t.

***

Less is more. Less stuff, less work, less commitments, and less expectations all equal more happiness, more time, and more overall success. I know this sounds cliché, and I understand that this concept goes against everything society has ever taught us about success. We are told “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right” and that “practice makes perfect.” We are told to hustle, work harder, and earn more money so that we can buy more things. We are misled down this impossible path of over-complication and overwhelm.

You can make your own path—a simple path that you don’t have to run down. A beautiful path that leads exactly where you want to go.

Just by choosing to read this book, you have already taken the first step down your brand-new path. This book is the shortcut to a simplified life that I wish I had fifteen years ago. Emily will walk you through exactly how to simplify every aspect of your life so that you can make space for what matters most.

 —Cassandra Aarssen, creator of Clutterbug™ (excerpted from the foreword)

Edition details

• Publisher: TMA Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 164250808X
• ISBN 13: 9781642508086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248