If Parenting is an Exhale, When Do You Inhale?
How co-parenting helps me embrace the rhythms of life
Depending on your religious beliefs, life may or may not be a one-way ticket with a clear beginning and end. But one thing that’s clear is that while we’re living this lifetime on this planet, life ebbs and flows in a cyclical nature, just like in the rest of nature. (Despite all evidence to the contrary, we are, in fact, just another part of nature, like the squirrels in the trees, the sun in the sky, and the soil beneath our feet.)
I don’t believe that there will ever be the perfect “work-life balance” that so many strive for. I don’t believe that the industrial model of cookie-cutter hours that form cookie cutter days that form cookie cutter weeks and years and months and decades is either healthy or sustainable. What I have found to be a much more enjoyable, forgiving, realistic and sustainable model is to embrace the seasons, phases and cycles of life…
The waxing and the waning of the moon. The rising and falling of the tides. The seasons of the year. The in breath and the out breath…
What I am particularly aware of right now is the shift that has taken place for me in the past 48 hours since my kids were picked up by their Dad. This ends nearly two months of having them full time and today was…
