When we are busy juggling the needs of our children,
partners and work we often have little time or energy left over
for ourselves.
Angela Baura
has some expert tips for balancing
everyone’s needs – including our own.
Balancing act
iridologist and practitioner of crystal
healing and Bach Flower Remedies.
“True balance is not about stretching
our days to fill in more tasks so that
we end up multi-tasking to our limits;
instead, it’s about creating time for
ourselves for our personal wellbeing.
In most cases, mothers are the main
pillar of a household. If they do not
have personal balance, they break
down and so too does the household.
Unfortunately, I witness many
mothers giving up their personal
wellness to take care of others, often
at the cost of their own health.”
But, in the midst of meeting the
multiple needs of people, both little
and large, how does a busy mother
achieve personal balance? Cristina,
Hulda Thorey of Annerley Midwives
Some might say I have the perfect
balance in life. Google, my once-
trusted friend, certainly does. Type
in ‘‘work-life balance for mums’’
and it seems I’ve got my juggling
‘kids with career’ act all worked
out. However, Cristina Rodenbeck,
Manipura Wellness Practice’s health
practitioner and executive coach,
disagrees. For, in my endeavour to
balance the needs of all those around
me, I have continually neglected the
needs of one exhausted person in my
life: me.
Balance for all mums – be they
‘mums with careers’ or ‘stay-at-home
mums’ – comes from building and
replenishing their personal energy
mentally, physically, emotionally and
spiritually, says Cristina, a certified
I
am a working-from-home mum:
a ‘stay-at-home mum’ and a
‘working mum’ all rolled into
one busy package. I spend my
days addressing the diverse needs
of my three delightful children, my
evenings responding to emails and
preparing dinner for my husband
and I to eat while we catch up on our
days (interrupted frequently by our
far-from-delightful-at-9pm daughters
who unabashedly bound in and out
of their bedroom), and my weekends
tapping away at my computer,
creative sparks a-flying, pausing only
to check in on my children and sneak
in a phone call to family abroad.
When friends, family and colleagues
call on me, I willingly squeeze in time
to be available to them, too.
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