Me-time Compassion Gathering with Cecilia: Meeting Spring

Mommy's Love Nest

Supporting mommies’ mental health through mindful living. Mommy’s Love Nest’s co-founders: Cecilia: Being a mother of a teen and a 6 year old and a primary caretaker of her aging mother (as well as a “recovering” perfectionist), Cecilia has come to appreciate the mental well-being benefits of mindfulness. In fact, it is often the easily accessible (and short) practices that have anchored and helped her to grasp the clarity, focus, calmness, and compassion needed to sail through some of stormiest weathers of life. She appreciates so much of how mindfulness has helped pivot her towards healthier life paths, that she became a certified mindfulness teacher and continues to be a lifelong student of mindfulness. Her primary reason for co-creating Mommy’s Love Nest is to uplift the mental well-being of mommies overwhelmed with the challenges of motherhood. The more mommies she can help and hold space for with her heart led approaches, the happier vibrations she knows she can help ring through our planet. Linh: When feeling worried about her unborn baby’s health, Linh puts one hand on her heart, closes her eyes, gets mindful of her breathing, and holds that shivering part of her in empathy and loving-kindness. For a while, the shivering part of her gets soothed. Subsequently, calmness, clarity, and resilience get back to her, helping her to take care of herself and her baby. Day after day, such mindful self-compassion practices have helped Linh befriend mood swings in her pregnancy, mood swings then come and go more quickly, thus she can really enjoy this journey and feel so much love for her baby. Linh is grateful for that, and wishes to share such practices with other mommies. Deep down in her heart, she wishes for all mommies to be loved, and cared, to be physically and mentally healthy, because that’s what they deserve. That is the reason why she co-creates Mommies’ Love Nest with Cecilia.