No one wakes up and thinks “Today is the day I will become a single mother” but one day that became my story.  I went from living in a house with my the father of my child with his daughter (from a previous relationship), our child just navigating grade 1; to moving back into my childhood home with my mother and brother. I became my daughter's everything, trying to balance work, sopping up the tears of frustration, losing my friends, feeling fatigued, walking into family court once a month, and trying to keep from pulling my hair out. 

 

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So what changed? How did I manage the roller coaster of stress and emotions? One day after work I flipped on the tv and I saw a nature segment about the lioness and I was in awe.  I watched how she had to leave her cubs hidden in order to hunt. I watched her focus, her drive, her agility and her execution in order to bring dinner home. I watched her do it alone.  I watched her feed her young and lick her wounds. And I watched her walk the plains alone, with her cubs in tow,  looking regal as ever.  Immediately I felt a connection.  I too developed a strategy ( a sweet science if you will) that helped me stay empowered while the world kept throwing everything at me left right and centre. 

 

I was able to feel better about myself (mind, body, and soul), manage my time wiser, become a mom boss, stop dreading family court, and above all be a better mother who was no longer full of stress and felt able to conquer it all.