02/05/2025
You’re Doing a Beautiful Job—Even If It Doesn’t Look Like It Yet
🎬 Tonight ended with a slammed door, dishes in the sink, and microwaved mac and cheese eaten standing up. No heartfelt family moment. No tidy ending. Just exhaustion humming in my bones as I sat there wondering, Is this enough? Am I enough?
🧠 It’s so easy to believe that "good parenting" looks like calm voices, homemade meals, perfect routines. But real life—especially real life with neurodivergence in the mix—isn’t neat. It’s raw. It’s messy. It’s full of moments where just surviving the day is a triumph.
🔎 The truth they don’t tell you is this: Showing up matters more than any checklist ever will. Your child doesn’t need perfection. They need your presence. They need someone who stays, who tries, who loves them when it’s beautiful and when it’s unbearably hard.
🛠️ Small Braveries:
Count showing up as success, even when nothing else "gets done."
Whisper to yourself: "Messy love is still real love."
Let tonight be enough, just as it is.
💬 If today was heavy and hard and you’re questioning if you’re doing enough—please hear this: You are doing a beautiful job. Even if it doesn’t feel beautiful yet. Even if the only thing you did today was love them through it.
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🤝 If you need a place where your messy, real, beautiful love is celebrated, come join us in the Everything Neurodiversity Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1417390296308842
You belong here. 💛