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Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family
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Product Description
Whether you've been a Mom for three months or thirteen years, the challenge is to find ways to lovingly nurture yourself as well as you care for the rest of your family. It can be done!
Mojo Mom is the first book that feels like your own voice, finally saying what it really means to be a Mom. This unique guide does more than just identify the challenges of motherhood; it gives you dozens of tools—ideas, activities, books, gadgets, and other quality resources—for nurturing every part of the Mojo Mom life. Enjoy!
Learn practical ways to:
* Prepare to become a Mom without losing your identity
* Survive and thrive during the intense early years
* Save some of your best energy and creativity for yourself
* Branch out little by little, as you have time and interest
* Tend to your ideas and dreams, even if you can't act on them right away
* Re-enter the workforce or take a new path with confidence
* Make peace with chaos. A messy house means you're busy doing something more important!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #942821 in Books
- Published on: 2006-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 194 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780976498018
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Editorial Reviews
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About the Author
These years at home allowed her to explore a new creative path as a writer. In 2004 she published her first novel, the wilderness adventure High Water, written for a middle-grade audience.
Tiemann tapped all of her experiences—research, writing, and in-the-trenches motherhood—to create Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family. Today, through her books, seminars, and interactive web site (www.mojomom.com), Amy Tiemann helps other women discover and reclaim a strong sense of self as they grow as mothers and individuals.
Customer Reviews
Mojo Mom stands out
As an editor at a parenting magazine, I see hundreds of parenting books each year, but Mojo Mom stands out as a personal favorite. Many moms read about pregnancy, delivery, newborn development, potty training, discipline, but forget to pick up a book about what's happening to mom.
For a job that is so life-changing, so consuming, so challenging, there are very few books with thoughtful, practical advice about how to take care of ourselves - I found Mojo Mom hit the target beautifully. Tiemann writes like a best girlfriend, a coach, an expert, and fellow mother about the earth-shattering shifts to a mother's identity and how to nurture that tremendous change with down-to-earth, thoughful advice.
I recommend this book to expecting moms, new moms, any woman with children. Chapter 8 "Keeping Your Resume Fresh and Your Financial Future Secure" is particularly inspiring, especially if you've taken a step back from your career to raise children, but want to be prepared for the next stages of your life. Chapter Five, "Centering, Silence and Reclaiming Your Mind Space" is a wonderful chapter if you're drowning in demands, not only from family, friends and work, but from noise, media, news. Chapter Two, "Life Inside the Cocoon: The Early Months of Motherhood" is an essential read for expecting and new moms.
What grabbed me about Mojo Mom was the subtitle, "Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family." Everyone tells us to enjoy these years with our children, and Mojo Mom is a wonderful "how-to guide" to show us how to do that. Plenty of references, resource, suggestions, advice, insights, and easy-to-read chapters. Highly recommended.
A book that is REALLY for moms
Mojo mom is a must-read for mothers, mothers-to-be, and supporters of mothers who feel that current parenting literature neglects one of the key elements in a healthy, happy household--the mom, herself. When I was pregnant with my first child, I felt simultaneously overwhelmed and underwhelmed with traditional pregnancy and parenting literature--books like What to Expect When You're Expecting gave so much information I felt I couldn't absorb it or ever be the kind of mom they were describing. They also neglected the emotional aspects of mothering. The Girlfriends Guide was a humorous alternative, but certainly does not get to the core of what it means to be a woman after you become a mom. Mojomom addresses the subject head-on with true empathy and in a beautifully written, enjoyable style. Becoming a mom, for many of us, is a bit isolating even as it is joyful. The traditional antidotes to that isolation, such as mothers' groups, with their heavy focus on children, don't do much to counter that isolation. The most beneficial aspect of Mojomom is that as you read it, you begin to feel validated and part of a community of mothers who believe that one of the best gifts you can give your children is keeping a bit of yourself intact.
Get your mojo back
I bought this book and literally could not put it down. Even before I finished, I started putting Amy's suggestions into practice. And the small changes I've made have already made a difference. I am examining all the things I do and determining which activities are really necessary and bringing me (or my kids) enjoyment. I'm realizing how important it is to have an identity other than mom - not that being a mom isn't a great or important thing but just that we are still our own person too.
I so recommend this book for all moms. It would make a great shower gift too. There are tons of books about taking care of your children, your body, etc. This one tells you how to nurture your spirit and gives practical ways that you can do it no matter what the age of your children are or what your situation is.
This would be a wonderful Mothers' Day gift too!
