Author Archive | Jaymi Anderson

How Moms Can Manage their Energy Levels

By Jaymi Anderson on November 1, 2019 in Mental Health and Self Care

Have you ever left the house with your phone not fully charged? I have, more than once. Sometimes, it’s not that big of a deal. Other times, I really need it to stay in touch with my kids or for navigation and I don’t have the opportunity to charge it enough in the car so [...]

5 Reasons Not to Dread the Teenage Years

By Jaymi Anderson on September 6, 2019 in Mom

Each stage of parenting has its own challenges. There’s the sheer exhaustion of meeting the needs of your newborn, the patience required to discipline a toddler, and the perseverance needed to complete elementary school homework. Unfortunately, we moms aren’t super kind in that we often belittle the current reality of each other’s circumstances and give [...]

How a Scarcity Mindset Impacts your Kids

By Jaymi Anderson on July 5, 2019 in Family, Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

Scarcity mindset is the belief that there are only a limited number of resources available to you. It’s talked about a lot in the entrepreneurial world in regards to clients and money. A business leader with a scarcity mindset always feels like they are in competition for consumer cash, which often fuels a desperate, win-at-all-costs [...]

How to Be a Control Freak (But Not in the Way You Think)

By Jaymi Anderson on June 7, 2019 in Family, Mental Health and Self Care, Mom

Let’s face it, we all want to be in control. Control is how we manage fear and anxiety. Control helps us assess risk. But our need to control can also be detrimental. Back in my biology teacher days, I showed a movie to my classes in which a man made a simple monkey trap. He [...]

How to Stay Sane When Your Husband Travels

By Jaymi Anderson on March 4, 2019 in Family, Mom, Parenthood

I have been married for 22 years and, for all of that time, my husband has had a job that requires travel. Every week. Bryan was already a pilot when we got married so it wasn’t a surprise to me that he’d be gone on trips for work, but what I didn’t fully comprehend was […]

Free Yourself from Comparison

By Jaymi Anderson on January 27, 2019 in Mental Health and Self Care, Mom, Parenthood

Scenario 1: It’s one of those perfect Northern Colorado winter days when the weather breaks mid-afternoon and the temperature hits 65 degrees. Never one to waste sunshine, you call a friend and meet her at the park. The kids run off all their pent-up energy, eat dinner with minimum complaint and fall asleep right away. […]

Small steps toward your dreams can make a big difference

Take Action on Your “Someday” Dreams

By Jaymi Anderson on January 13, 2019 in Health and Fitness, Mom

Someday, I’d like to ________________________. What would you fill in the blank with? Skydive? Finish your degree? Hike a 14er? Eat healthier? Visit Africa? We all have things on our “someday” list. Often they are big dreams that are a little scary. So scary, in fact, that we don’t always say them out loud. At […]

Don’t Lose Your Identity in the Mommy Years

By Jaymi Anderson on October 21, 2018 in Mom, Parenthood

Can you describe yourself without using the word “mom”? Can you describe yourself with cataloguing all your weaknesses? Do you have a hobby? It’s not uncommon for women to get buried in the avalanche that is motherhood, and, truthfully, we don’t really mind because we love our family and would sacrifice anything for them. Except […]

Finding Purpose in the Mommy Years

By Jaymi Anderson on September 18, 2018 in Health and Fitness, Mom

Purpose is a popular word. It gets thrown around in self-help circles and social media graphics. We all want a purpose-driven life because purpose is an incredible alarm clock, right? Except, what if you don’t know what your purpose is? I struggled with this question a lot after my first daughter was born. In the […]