Pip Magazine

IT’S OKAY

“I have had to simplify and accept that for the time being, while my kids are still young, I just can’t do it all”

When we try to live our best life each and every day, things can get overwhelming. Just don’t let the thing that has to give be your own wellbeing.

In an ideal world, we are doing it all. We’re practising all the old homesteading techniques our grandparents did. We’re baking bread, growing food, preserving produce, making and mending clothes and other belongings, all while being fantastic humans. Humans who are available for our kids, partners, friends, family and communities and at the same time, running businesses or working full time, not to mention looking after our own wellbeing.

It’s a lot to fit in and when we try and do it all, we can

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