Comments on: Motherhood Matters: Day 3 – Smashing the Identity Crisis https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/05/05/motherhood-matters-day-3-smashing-the-identity-crisis/ Who We Are, What We Believe, How We Live -- Glimpses into Latter-day Saint Life Sat, 07 May 2011 15:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: mormonwomen https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/05/05/motherhood-matters-day-3-smashing-the-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-44696 Sat, 07 May 2011 15:34:49 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=9485#comment-44696 Thanks for your comments, ladies. I love hearing your thoughts.

Happy Mother’s Day!
~Michelle

]]> By: Stephanie https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/05/05/motherhood-matters-day-3-smashing-the-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-44664 Fri, 06 May 2011 21:21:06 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=9485#comment-44664 Thanks for the reminder of the importance of serving others when it comes to finding happiness! I always need to improve in that area.

]]> By: Danika https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/05/05/motherhood-matters-day-3-smashing-the-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-44661 Fri, 06 May 2011 17:50:43 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=9485#comment-44661 Ha! I always tell people I’m CEO of my household. I left the workforce a year ago to stay home with my two girls and use my business experience every day. My husband gets to be CFO 🙂

]]> By: Marsha Keller https://womenseekingchrist.org/2011/05/05/motherhood-matters-day-3-smashing-the-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-44610 Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:23 +0000 http://mormonwoman.org/?p=9485#comment-44610 As always Michelle, so very well-said. I loved this: “A truly happy person does not pursue happiness. Rather, happiness is a by-product of their service to others. In the process, you end up finding your best self, because there is more of you to find.”

I think I’m going to make up a little poster that says that for a reminder.

I too detest the ‘what do you do’ question. While I do ‘do’ several things, I feel like somehow they are asking me to define myself in a short answer. I’ve taken to just say, “I’m a life and relationship coach” and usually that feels right enough on many levels to make the conversation flow forward.

I think it is so much less about what we do, an more about who we are at our core, who we want to be, what we want to do, what we want to contribute, that defines us both to ourselves and to others. Perhaps we would all do well to find some little statement that defines our best self, and answer that, instead of our ‘job’ or our ‘role’.

“I’m a delighted mom and grandmother!”

“I’m a gourmet cook!”

“I’m an artist”

“I’m a. . . ”

Fill in your own best self description of the moment. Tomorrow, you may be someone/something else!

MSK

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