Motherhood Archives - Carey Bailey

Back to School: 9 Ways to Practice Self Love

September 6, 2017

DEEP BREATH!! Summer is over, moms and dads! Although I will miss my kids while they’re at school, I am so excited to have a little more of my freedom back. If you’re a veteran mom, you probably have the whole back to school routine thing down, although every year it definitely ...

Life Coaching, Motherhood/Parenting, Tips & Tricks

10 Outdoor Labor Day Activities for Kids

August 16, 2017

The long Labor Day weekend is a wonderful opportunity to spend time with family. If your summer life is as hectic as mine, you may not be able to get away for a vacation, but there’s still time to have some fun with your children. Here are some ideas for fun activities to keep the kids busy ...

Life Coaching, Tips & Tricks

How to Trailblaze Through Trials

July 24, 2017

You know that feeling when you’re just starting a trial — big or small? Like when you realize you only have one of your favorite earrings in, and you pray that the other is just at home on your dresser? Or when you’re sitting at the doctor’s office, and the nurse walks in with a grim look on ...

Life Coaching

Create Joy in Relationships

July 17, 2017

When you’re running low on joy, what do you do with your relationships? Do you draw near to your friends, or do you push them away? Do you cry out to your Maker, or do you pull the curtains closed? Joy is a fruit of the Spirit, but God created us to be relational beings like Himself (there are ...

Life Coaching

How to Reclaim Your Want To’s

July 10, 2017

Like most of you, I have a to-do list. Some days, I’m crossing things off left and right, and I feel pretty good about myself. Other days, it grows to be a mile long, and I get discouraged. Either way, I usually need to remind myself what actually makes up my to-do list. Because “to-dos” aren’t ...

Craving Joy, Life Coaching, Tips & Tricks

Craving Joy? Discover Delight.

June 5, 2017

The year was 2002 and everything I had expected and hoped for in life was being ripped and stripped from me. My dream job was slipping out of my hands and I was being mandated into intensive treatment for an eating disorder that I didn’t think I had. The result of this was considerable ...

Craving Time, Life Coaching

Craving Time in 2017?

January 2, 2017

At the end of the day, do you find that you’ve run out of time to do all the things you wanted to? Or, do you find yourself worn down by “it all” and wishing you were giving yourself some more soul care? As women and mompreneurs, we take it upon ourselves to be caregivers to our families, our ...

Motherhood/Parenting

Motherhood: After the Baby Comes

May 29, 2013

Every season of The Bachelor or The Bachelorette comes along and I say I am going to stop watching. But every season I fail! I watch. I get lured into the romance unfolding. But what I really enjoy is the After the Final Rose show. How is it all REALLY? How is this “real life” couple doing once ...

Pin God 1st

May Printables and Pin God 1st Calendar.

May 1, 2013

Happy May to you!!! I really am a bit floored it is here. Didn’t I JUST start writing 2013 on things? Today marks the fact that I am 5 months away from turning forty. Wowzeers!!!! Let us move right along from that news and onto a more fun subject. Drum roll please…..here are your ...

Motherhood/Parenting

You Are Exactly The Mom YOUR Child Needs.

May 7, 2012

You Are “You are a mess.” “You are amazing.” “You are in over your head.” “You Are ________” Two words loaded with either accusation or affirmation. As moms, we tend to let in the accusatory “You Are”s and ignore the affirming ones. Or in the absence of the world accusing us, we ...