Living An Emotionally Balanced Life: 7 Steps for Empowering Your Potential
For moms that struggle with anxiety and depression, living an emotionally balanced life seems like a fairytale. A very unfair illusion that can never be achieved. As a mom who experienced these insane whirlwind of emotions every time life threw me a challenge, I know how much you desire emotional balance. That is why I am sharing these seven steps for empowering your potential and living an emotionally balanced life.
Why is Emotional Balance Important?
Emotional balance is important because it creates stability. As a mom, you know how essential stability is for growth and well being. When you have emotional balance you can overcome life’s challenges. Your connections are powerful. Most importantly, you are in control of how you handle your relationships. Strengthening the relationship with yourself is the key.
When you spend every waking moment focusing on everyone except yourself, you lose a crucial connection. That break in connection that makes everything you do purposeless. In turn, when you are doing things just to do things life seems pointless. When life seems pointless, you lose sight of your potential.
Losing sight of your potential creates a vicious cycle of emotional ups and downs. All depending on the reaction you receive from others. After all, everything you’re doing is for others. And in that same thought, how is that benefiting anyone?
If you do not have emotional balance, living life for everyone else and needing the acceptance and approval, what happens when they no longer need you? What is your purpose after that? Does your potential increase or decrease? Even thinking about that can create chaos with your anxiety and depression. I know. That is why these seven steps for empowering your potential are important.
- Dare to Dream
Anxiety and depression create extreme highs and lows. These highs and lows create chaos in our lives and cloud our judgements and hinder our decisions. Eventually it may feel like you are lost and simply taking steps with no direction. This is why it is crucial for you to dare to dream. Dare to dream for your life. Create a vision of your future achieved self. What does she look like? What does your family look like? Achieving your dreams, how does that feel? Can you set goals to achieve just one of those goals?
- One Goal, One Strategy
Your one goal may be to achieve emotional balance. How do you do that? What can you do to achieve that? It’s time to get resourceful and use all the tools you have available to you. Do your research. Then get clear on why that is your one goal, what will that provide for you? And then create one strategy to achieve that one goal. How are you going to get what you want? And take that one action on a consistent basis. Create one goal, one strategy to achieve one dream.
- Space to Grow
As an old friend to anxiety and depression, I can appreciate the challenge of even daring to dream. Life seems to start to pounce on you as soon as you begin to take your first steps to achieving that which you desire the most. So, you might take a stumble or two while taking some actions. It’s okay! Know that you’re growing into your potential. Allow yourself space to grow and learn and grow some more. Tweak your one strategy, improve. You got this.
- Set Priorities and Healthy Boundaries
It’s almost certain that throughout the process of achieving your one goal and empowering your potential that you will make life adjustments. This means that you will have to evaluate your priorities and maybe even have to set some healthy boundaries. I won’t lie to you and say this is fun. What I will say is that it is very empowering! It will give you the sense of importance that you deserve mom.
It’s kind of like calling the doctor’s office. They don’t give you the time or date you need. You call the office and they tell you what times they have available. You choose from there. Well, now you’re the important person that gets to tell others when you have available because you are busy reaching your potential and accomplishing your goal of emotional balance.
Remember, there are things that still need to get done. All you are doing is creating balance by setting your priorities and setting healthy boundaries.
- Build Discipline
When we talk about setting priorities and healthy boundaries, this applies for others and yourself also. You must build discipline to have emotional balance and overcome anxiety and depression. To build discipline is a great practice. A journey that never ends.
The negative voices will whisper daily. Daily you will have to create a disciplined routine that will help you turn that negative energy into positive vibes. This is a process that will grow over time and you must have grace with yourself. Improvement is consistently trying. As long as you do that, you will get there.
- Awareness Creates Emotional Balance
Awareness creates emotional balance. If you are not aware of what triggers your anxiety and depression you cannot create balance. The root cause of your anxiety and depression is a process of discovery that takes some work. However, if you take it one moment at a time and become aware of how you can create emotional balance to your reactions then you are making progress. You are one step closer and if you practice this daily, your emotional balance will be within your reach asap.
- Focus on Progress Not Time Limits
You must focus on progress not time limits. Too often we set these time limits or compare our growth to others as a challenge. And when we do not meet these expectations, it lands us in a worse state of anxiety and depression than before. This triggers our mind to believe this created a negative response and is unhealthy for us. Eventually creating limits to our potential.
Do not set time limits to your growth. To be transparent, the journey of emotional balance is infinite. As we learn more and grow, we learn that there is so much more we do not know. That is the beauty and brilliance of this life. There is more and your potential is limitless with emotional balance. So toss out the timeline and just appreciate your experience today.
All In All
Living an emotionally balanced life is very important as a mom. When you experience anxiety and depression, living an emotionally balanced life is crucial. For many, medications assist with this and for some it does not. Either way, the above seven steps work for all. Check ‘em out and try it.
What’s Next
I would love to know if any of these worked for you. Please feel free to comment below. There will be some exciting quick tips being shared on Facebook coming soon. Would love to get to know you better. Let me know if you want to join in and I can share the posting schedule with you.
“Til next time.
