Mindful Moments for Busy Moms: Daily meditations and mantras for greater calm, balance, and joy

by Sarah Rudell Beach

Bring peace and calm to your busy-mama days with these 365 meditations and mantras—one for every day of the year.

Bring peace and calm to your busy-mama days with these 365 meditations and mantras—one for every day of the year.

Mindfulness is a powerful practice that can help you navigate the ups and downs of motherhood, and help you be the mother—and the YOU—that you want to be. Mindfulness is our ability to attend to the present moment, with curiosity and without judgment. It is a powerful tool that transforms how you relate to your own life and how you engage with the world. There is a growing body of research out there that tells us that when mothers practice mindfulness they experience less stress and anxiety, build stronger relationships with their children and feel less overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood. Their children experience less stress and anxiety, too. In this beautifully illustrated book, mindfulness expert Sarah Rudell Beach introduces the basics of mindfulness and then offers a collection of meditations and mantras. From dealing with tantrums and your patience being tested to making time for yourself and practicing self-compassion, you’ll discover how a mindful approach can lead to greater calm, balance, and ease in your daily life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting

176 pages, Hardcover

Published May 1, 2018

About the author

Sarah Rudell Beach is a contributing author to Sunshine After the Storm: A Handbook for the Grieving Mother (2013). She is also the creator of Left Brain Buddha, where she explores ideas and practices for mindfulness, and shares the challenges and riches in her journey to live and parent mindfully in a left-brain, analytical life. Her writing has been featured on Tiny Buddha, the Power of Moms, and BlogHer.
Sarah lives in Minnesota with her husband and two children. In her free time, she enjoys reading, dancing, yoga, and hanging out with her little Buddhas.

Reviews

[Viola Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been working on being present and fully engaged mentally with my kids and this book offers a lot of great insight. I read the first half, skimmed much of the rest, and read the last chapter on sleep meditations (used one idea just last night and it worked wonderfully). I think I'm going to put this by my morning pile to help me reframe my day more positively before it even starts.

This is not a Christian book, and that shows sometimes, but the ideas and phrases to use are so helpful. For example, one thing I love is an explanation on how to exist with contradictory feelings. Motherhood can be overwhelming AND beautiful. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

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