Tips on How to Navigate Being a Mother, Raising a Special Needs Child, and Learning to Live Again

By Rachel K Flinchum

When you put a frog in boiling water, she will jump out. When you place her in room temperature water and slowly heat it, she will never jump out.We are ready for the boiling moments in life. When something drastically changes and we cannot help but notice and react.What we are seldom ready for are the moments when we look around and realize we have been in boiling water for a long time, but everything changed so slowly, so subtlety, that we were in trouble long before we ever realized it.One day you wake up and realize that you might need to be taking your situation a little more seriously. You realize your life's tray is so full that something is going to fall and crash to the ground. And then you realize that this something just might be you.You are a frog in boiling water. I had that moment. I have a marriage, two young sons (one with autism), a demanding job, not a young body, and plenty of personality issues myself. My days alternate between getting a ridiculously huge amount of stuff done and getting nothing done. I could not tell you the last time I said, "Wow, I had a good day today."So I decided I needed to do some purging. But I couldn't figure out what to purge. I had already been responding to the small increases in temperature in my life by letting go of things I couldn't handle anymore.I started to blog. It is hard for me to get my thoughts out of my head and blogging helps me to process all of my stuck thoughts. Through my blog I started to slowly discover that what I needed to purge was myself. I needed to unlearn a lot of bad habits that involved how I thought about and responded to life.I can learn to see the beauty in my life. The life that I live, and the life that only I can live. I am tired of dreaming of tomorrow and of better circumstances. I want to live today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492157481
• ISBN13: 9781492157489
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"