Use this ONE hack to calm your nervous system as a busy working mom!

We both know that regulating our nervous system is incredibly good for us, and we’d LIKE to be de-stressed, but sometimes it’s hard to get there practically as a mother.

You’ve got the kids crawling all over you, maybe another one actually on you (nursing or just hanging on!), school activities to plan, food to eat (oh wait, make), and all the minutiae that comes with running a family – and it’s all so incredibly activating. 

(If nothing else, due to the sheer noise level!)

So what can you do, as a business-owning mom, to get to that delicious internal state of an unfrazzled nervous system?

You’ve got this!

Alyssa

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Transcript

This is the Unbusy Mom, and today we’re talking about how to use this ONE hack to calm your nervous system as a busy working mom!

You know what I mean about calming your nervous system, right?

It’s that inherent, internal, “I’m working under pressure” feeling that you’re breathing out of your body, out of your mind, to get to an inner state of calm.

You can use breathwork, tapping, meditation, prayer, journaling, movement, music, etc. to get there – but you have to get there.

(At least, if you want a calm, unhurried life, or a de-stressed, de-cortisol-ed mind!)

So we all know that that’s incredibly good for us, and we’d *like* to be de-stressed, but sometimes it’s hard to get there practically as a mother.

I mean, you’ve got the kids crawling all over you, maybe another one actually on you (nursing or just hanging on!), school activities to plan, food to eat (oh wait, make), and all the minutiae that comes with running a family – and it’s all so incredibly activating. 

(If nothing else, due to the sheer noise level!)

So what can you do, as a business-owning mom, to get to that delicious internal state of an unfrazzled nervous system?

The most important thing you can do is to get ruthless with your calendar.

Because when you no longer have the internal must-do’s running your life – when unwanted obligations, calendar commitments, and (dare I say it) family events are no longer taking up your brain – you have the space to finally breathe. To just relax.

Your mind knows it’s safe to slow down and take that deep breath, then think about what YOU most want to do (not what your to-do list dictates for the next half hour).

How do you get there?

By being so focused on having white space built into your day – so locked into that internal non-rushed state – that you’re willing to be ruthless about everyday life to get yourself there.

Because this process of stripping away, of calendar decluttering, of expectation minimizing, is precisely what’s involved in getting unbusy.

And I want to help you find YOUR version. 

Because it’s time to come clean here – my biggest challenge as a work-from-home business owner is actually worrying that I’ll run out of stuff to do. 

That sounds so embarrassing to admit – and yet that is completely true. 

I worry that I won’t have something to do when I get up in the morning 2 months from now – because I’m so good at delegating, doing the important, and batch-working ahead, that I don’t have this giant, long to-do list of must’s and should’s. 

(I did when I started this business, of course, but that’s years behind me now. Boy, am I glad to be rid of that pressure!) 

So me sitting here fussing over whether I’ll have something to work on to serve you in two months or *whether I’ll have to take a break and go on vacation* is literally not a narrative in the online business space that anyone else has right now! 

This is my life. 

I’ve optimized so much of it, essentialized not only my mom life schedule but also my business to-do list, that every summer I have to go on half days because I don’t have enough to do. 

(“Have to”, I know. This is my productivity brain talking.)

I “have” to knock off work at 2:30 in the afternoon and go listen to podcasts I like, or take a walk, or workout. Have to. To fill the time.

I simply wouldn’t sustain a full work week for very long if I was putting in 8-hour days on the business as well as keeping up the house and the homeschooling. I’d run out of things to do. 

Just like I already ran out of house projects to do, and so I had to come up with something else to do with my time (answer: this business!).

I mean, what mom do you know is going to say she has all the time in the world to do whatever she wants? No one! 

And yet that’s how I feel. Each and every day. Working from home by you, for you, so you can experience this too. 

That’s how God has blessed me.

This is *one* mom’s example of what it means to be unbusy.

And I want to help you find yours. 

Because you deserve the *confidence* that everything your business needs got done for you today - this week - this month - and it’s all going to happen as soon as you lean on the power of scheduling. And outsourcing. And consistent mindset-block-reframing.

You’re going to get the business you *want* - that work-from-home *dream* life of staying home with your kids and *actually* spending time with them - and I’m going to help you.

Sit back and relax - I’ve got this for you.