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My Tips for Mamas Feeling Overwhelmed and Numb : How To Feel Purposeful Again



Mom Life is not for the faint of heart! It’s our first mission field. Living on mission is amazing, and hard work. We labor more than 9 months. There will be seasons you can’t help but wonder if what you do actually matters…it’s like my Key Lime Pies, they are tart, but sweet. While life can be good, it can also be hard. While we are loved, we can feel unloved. While everything we do is sacred, it feels sabotaging.

Am I the only Mom who has felt like a Human Vending machine?! Ever feel like a mere robot in some seasons? As if you are functioning through your days on auto-pilot? Always managing, but not truly allowing yourself to breathe deep cuz honestly, you’re just trying to get through another day working in the field.

Day by day doing just enough to get by, following the unspoken rules, trying to meet every other's expectations, getting done what must, feeding everyone else yet skipping your own meals (or eating all the cookies) then do it all again, day after day.

There is such a deception, a lull, that happens in the every day tasks or routines. It’s easy to disconnect and move out of our heart’s space when we’re focused on necessities of the every day things. We feel pulled through life instead of walking through it.

No real passion, no hope for change, no real connection, no control.

Did it mean I had lost love for my God or others? No, quite the opposite. In the giving, loving and serving, my soul dehydrated. Depleated, I was running on fumes. I eventually felt numb, and sometimes, invisible outside the doors of my home, as a woman amongst so many other amazing women doing amazing things, smiling and showing up to all the things, looking cute, polished and satisfied with life. Back in my younger Mom days, the online presence wasn't even present. So wild to consider! I can only imagine the pressure Moms feel now, and yet, if you search for authentic people, you can find them. I would like to think I am one of them.

Have you had that Twing in your being? It races and wonders what's next, what are you missing...You are pretty sure you were meant for something more, but what? To clean more toilets, be the hero stain remover? To be the object of everyone's needs without concern for your own? To keep it all together even though everything was broken around you?!

Life was monotonous and my soul had become numb.

Who grows up as a little girl thinking one day I hope to live like a human robot performing through life as SuperWoman and everyone’s Friend, while slowly loosing myself. I wanted to be Cinderella in the Castle and feel precious, valued, seen, heard, achieving and blessing everyone around me with love.

Anxiety, perfectionism, unrealistic expectations, insecurity, over-commitment, fear of judgment slowly robbed me of joy and hope. I missed innocent, trusting faith when steps were quicker, paths straighter, clinched jaws and fists relaxed, betrayal was quickly forgiven, the anxious mind was calmed, a place where all anticipation conquered all exhaustion.

Where was my hope? Where was my anticipation...

It's amazing how numb we become when we live a life from fumes, never truly refilling, and we wonder why we don’t feel seen, heard or valued. It’s because we don’t see, hear and value ourself.

I believe God created us to live a life of Anticipating Love. We were created for Life. The Bible says to rejoice in our sufferings, for out of our sufferings are produced character and hope, and hope doesn't put us to shame. (Romans 5:1-5) I felt shame for feeling hopeless because I felt I had lost me, and a Proverbs Woman of faith shouldn't feel lost or weak, right?!

When our heart becomes numb, we cannot rejoice, for we have no energy for hope, healing or restoration. Anticipation is lost. To love is to live, to live is to love. Love hopes. Hope restores our soul. Joy becomes strength which activates faith. I wanted to be renewed in Christ once again to a greater faith and a mind set on Him, but how? How do we start to feel our breath again?

If you have walked with the Lord long enough, you know He loves you enough not let you sit hopeless in the pit you either fell into or crawled into. Those twinges become nudges, and nudges lead you to His heart. 

You are His Child and He made you for a divine purpose and plan. All His thought into creating you, He is not about to let you just sit there and drift off into nothingness. I believe there are warning flags, you know, those hind-sight moments you know He is flagging you down, telling you Caution! If you don't heed that flag, He will step in. Did your Mom ever say, “Just wait till your Dad comes home!” And you knew that was not gonna be fun.

These warning flags will look different for each of us, for every warning. When you feel numb, it's hard to recognize the warnings in the moment but God is patient and persistent and I do believe He sends help, we just aren’t paying attention, asking, seeking or looking for those doors He is opening for us.

He is beyond time so He knows what it will take. He will send who and what you need, for your growth and His glory. So… how do we anticipate love again? How do we regain hope and purpose and feeling again?


If you find yourself feeling numb or looking at the walls of a muddy pit, here are some of the things I have done to give you some ideas but I definitely encourage you to confide in a friend or church leader. I believe God gives you the resources and people you need for such a time as this and we just need to ask to see them….


  • Take a break every day to worship and do something for you. You spend all day serving others, don't forget to serve YOU! It can be as simple as taking a bath, read a new book for 30 min, call a friend the makes you smile and bonus if you set up a coffee date, even if it’s an online meet-up!

  • Bless someone without it being part of your ministry/responsibility. I love anonymous and just because giving.

  • Read The Word daily with anticipation to fall in love with Him deeper. Look for His heart in the Word, and not the rules.

  • Worship more and worship different. Change up your prayer positions, change up your music artists. Ask your device to play Top Christian and Gospel. Learn some new songs and open your soul’s walls.

  • Speak against the lies of the enemy by speaking truth. Speak the Word, Write the Word, Memorize The Word.

  • Get back in touch with your hobbies and interests. You may not be able to actually reengage fully with it because of life, but find ways you can escape to it to some degree. Maybe read articles, join some Facebook Groups, follow like minded people in social media, join community groups, play groups, get the course, take a first step, etc.

  • Focus on body-mind-spirit. Strengthen your weaknesses in these areas. Only you know where they are and odds are He is showing you these numb places so He can breathe life back into them, especially if it your physical health. Work on your movement, nutrition, mindset and strength. Work on what has been

  • Get accountability & community. You're not stuck, unless you chose to be. Plus, it’s more fun to do things with your friends. Don't have any? Pray and ask for some!! But, also, if you need a Professional help, coach, counselor or trainer, do that!!!

Friend, It's time to ANTICIPATE LOVE. Understand better Who's you are. Start, Live and End every single day with eager anticipation. Live in gratitude. Worship with your body, in your mind and in your spirit.

When you realize how loved you truly are, how seen and heard you are, how cherished and purposed you are...His breath will become yours and you will no longer feel numb. Your life will become life for someone else. We do not struggle just for our own good. He helps us create a testimony for others that He may breath life into them.

Life is going to be hard, but God loves you through it and He will be your Rest & Refuge! He will sustain you. You are not alone. This Daily Bread, Living Water and Great Counselor, our Great I Am will energize your soul.

Today, let's ANTICIPATE LOVE together and make this world a better place for generations to come. To the Glory of God, amen amen.


"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
Colossians 3:14-17

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Heart Hugs and Blessings,
Michele
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Heart Hugs and Blessings,

Michele"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
Ephesians 3:14-21 ESV


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A Little About My Heart

 
Born and raised in the church, a Christ Follower, Kingdom Encourager, Wife, Mama, and an Overcomer! GLORY TO GOD!!

I lived most of my life fearful, anxious, and insecure.. I found myself always hiding but serving, striving for perfection in my less-thanness, as a way to earn my worth to self, God and others, sacrificing in the name of serving, hospitality and humility...putting others needs before my own from a place of hiding in my lack, and trying to earn value rather than serving in the space of grace, confident faith and overflowing love. 

Never attaining, only to lead a life of more insecurity, overwhelm, anxiety, and panic, screaming to break free from this bondage, to be that actual strong, courageous Christian Woman everyone else seemed to be, but me. 

BUT GOD.

In 2009, Where Faith Is was born as a blog, learning my voice behind the safety of a keyboard, building courage to speak my truth behind the screen...and here all these years later, Little by little, God is expanding my heart boundaries as He reveals more of His to me. I am so excited to share so freely! 

I especially love being an encourager to other encouragers in the faith who know they are called to encourage yet they themselves struggle with their value and ability. Isn't that how the enemy works? He tries to disqualify us in the same area we are called to shine! What an irony!  

I believe if more people let go of fear and insecurity, surrendered to grace and BELIEVED their value, their spark for life will return to a roaring fire that lights up wet wood! 

When women choose to walk courageous and strong in body, mind and spirit...they step out of the boat and walk on water as Peter did, part the waters like Moses and set more people FREE in His name through their Divine purpose to the Glory of GOD! We are each a Light House of Strength on the shorelines of Grace . 

Friend, you may not believe it, but you are meant for more than eat/sleep/work/repeat. You are also equipped with good works to serve and bless the Kingdom Body, and the world with His Love, through YOU! You've got to surrender your fear and let Him lead you.

You are more able than you think you are and most likely, the thing you feel is the weakest part of you is the strongest thing about you!

If you are an introvert too and want to be a part of our newly launching online community, we are here for you!! Let's Connect! It's an honor to encourage the Encouragers.

I am H.I.S. (Heart In Surrender & Service).

Hugs & Blessings, 
Michele

"So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 
Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others." Philippians 2:1-4

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