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HAVING SUPERPOWERS AND NO MANUAL

This is how a SUPERMOM can feel so overwhelmed even when she has everything all together. My job as a mother is basically to keep everything from falling apart in my household. When my family has their little breakdowns, it's up to me to talk them through the issues and get them back on track. I love that job. So what's the downfall well who is there to do that for me?

It seems that if I ever get to the brink of a break, I have to talk myself through it find the logic in the emotional insanity that my chemicals are experiencing. It usually happens when I can't get a mental list together of what needs to get started or finished. Then if I don't have enough time to make that list a reality by writing it down, then I have a growing anxiety that the list may be bigger than it truly is.

Everyone needs time to themselves time in the quiet of their brains time with no rules or responsibilities where they have a chance to answer to those responsibilities or just take a break from them. The stress comes from the pile up. All mothers do this; think they can juggle all the balls when someone steals that one ball or messes up it's timing, it can make the whole show fall apart.

When I feel like the world is falling apart, it's time for me to take a break find that quiet place in the dark and have my own little pity party and get through it. I do this on my own because time has proven that I do more harm than good if I show this bit of humanism to my family. They tend to get nervous and stressed if their family central nervous system "the mom" is on the fritz.

My fear is not being able to come out of a meltdown. That fear keeps me in the clarity. Sometimes it's all too much and my thoughts take over. The interesting part is that those same thoughts bring me back. I know that I can always depend on my best friend to pull me through I just really dread the process sometimes since it usually consists of me helping him to help me and if you think about that ~ me being at the point that I need help and I have to help someone to help me through my need well it's frustrating!

All and all I do inevitably get through it. Then all of it seems silly after the fact. In the moment of chemical emotions though ~ you are filled with superpowers and strength that you have no manual for. The hardest time in your life is when your chemicals take your sensibility out of life's equation. You are the mom the strongest heart in the family it must keep beating.

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