I found, Ants by @lymepoet, to be profoundly insightful. Each paragraph held a golden ray of truth, but I found her thoughts on self-doubt to be especially relevant to motherhood. 🌱

When doubt (self-doubt), fear and anxiety are nested deeply, rooted into your core from a young age, as everyone keeps on telling you what is possible and what is not - constantly defining your limitations - the chances of you stepping out from under the big black cloud are getting slimmer by the day.

We become the still, small voice inside of our children's minds. And even as they grow into adults, we maintain influence over them. This voice can speak love and light, or this voice can speak self-doubt. Either way, the way we speak to our children now will shape the course of their lives forever. This post will stay with me as I ponder this truth. I will run my words through this filter before I speak them to my children.