mom’s time

Use these downloads to help you shift your mindset and priorities to reclaim your identity. In this download bundle you will find 3 sheets.

1) Cognitive Distortions
On this sheet you will find 10 common ways of thinking that are often untrue. Get to know the distortions so we can then challenge them!

2) Challenging Distortions
Cognitive distortions can take over our thoughts without us even realizing it. This sheet is to help us stop the automatic thoughts we are having and reframe what is true (and not true) about them.

Step 1:
For this exercise, start writing down those negative thoughts.
Example: “If I don’t make lunch for my kids everyday, I’m a bad mom.”

Step 2:
Identify what cognitive distortion(s) have us thinking this thought.
Example: All or Nothing.

Step 3:
Find evidence to challenge the automatic thought.
Example: I do a lot of things for my kids to support them. They are always fed, even if I do not make their lunch each day and that is okay.

3) Prioritizing Tasks
As moms, we wear a lot of hats. It can feel overwhelming when you start thinking of all of the items on your to-do list and a lot of the time that means YOU are put on the back burner. It’s time to take control of your day.

First items. In the top left hand corner, put the things that need to get done NOW, that are urgent and have a deadline.
Example: Getting your kids registered for a sport because the deadline is this week.

Last items. In the bottom right hand box, these are the things that don’t really need to be done anytime soon.
Example: Cleaning out the spare room closet.

Important (kinda). The last two boxes can be interchangeable. This is where you put the tasks that you do want to get done that are not urgent, but still important to you. You will based on where you put them dependent on the speed of the priority, but these are not set in stone so you can move them around if you need.
Example: Reorganizing my office.