Letting go of feeling guilty

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Letting go of feeling guilty

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Well, I hear so much from working moms that I work with and my friends about feeling guilty, feeling guilty. And, the first thing I wanna say is that guilt is not helping anyone. So, how can we shift our perspective about what it is that we're doing? Right now, when we feel guilty, we have an idea in our head of what we should be doing in this place, in that place, in the other place, and we're not meeting our own expectation. So, we've created kind of a story in our head about that and it causes this thing we called guilt which takes us nowhere. My suggestion is change the story. What if for an hour or for 2 hours, you adopted the story I'm giving more than enough? I am enough. My children are fine. My job is great. I do a wonderful job at all the things I do. What if you adopted that and what would it change in terms of your behavior at the office and with your family? And, give it a try.

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Jamee Tenzer, PCC

Parent Coach & Author

In 2002, Jamee Tenzer founded CMQ Coaching, a private practice with a focus on working mothers and female executives. She works with her clients to integrate their professional and personal lives in order to make their vision real in the workplace without giving up the experience they want at home.  She is also a trainer, mentor, author and small business coach. Her writing has been published in magazines, she is a contributor to numerous websites, writes a monthly newsletter “Coach Me Quick!” and manages “Executive Moms” on LinkedIn. In 2006, she co-authored, 101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life, and in April of 2012 she published her first Coach Me Quick!; Balance Your Work and Family Life with Less Stress and More Fun.

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