How to Get Out of the Mom Funk
Learn to get yourself out of the Mom funk with these 6 tips!
Have you been in the mom funk lately? Are you feeling agitated and irritable? Are you pacing back and forth because you just don’t know what to do with yourself? Do you not feel like doing anything or leaving the house but sitting around watching movies or tv is just making you feel worse? Is your world kind of just a blur right now?
You might have a case of the funks.
I don’t know about you but I get this quite often. So many times, when I’m stuck in the house for days I find myself in a rut. You can only clean so much and you can eventually run out of laundry.
What? You can run out of laundry to do? It’s possible!
I’ll find myself mindlessly wondering from kitchen to living room, to running upstairs and back down just to keep myself moving. Thinking to myself maybe something will come to me that I can rearrange or fix or anything.
I’ll sit down for a little and end up scrolling my phone for a couple of minutes just to get up and take a walk back to the kitchen to see if anything changed out there.
You don’t really feel like leaving the house because that would require putting a bra on, trying to find something comfortable to wear, getting the littles around and ready and that’s too much energy to put out when I feel like I have no energy as it is.
You want to leave but you don’t want to leave.
You feel like going to visit a friend or your parents but it’s too much for you to try to have a conversation with them, so you just stay home.
You try to think of a home project that needs done or you want to start but that means you have to get a, b, and c out first and who has the energy to do all that. But you know it needs done..ahh it can wait though.
Your daughter wants to go do something; she wants to go thrifting. Oh My Gosh, my daughter loves thrifting just as much, if not more than I do. But that means, I have to drive and go out inpublic, and I just don’t have it in me to do either. I don’t feel like doing something I love with my mini me.
Thinking of sitting long enough to watch a movie when you know there’s something else that you could be doing, but you don’t know what that something else is. You try to watch a movie but are you really watching the movie when your brain is telling you that your supposed to be up doing something.
Why??
Why do I feel this way? Why is it so much for me to just think of something to do or somewhere to go and just go? Why can’t my brain just let me live in the moment and enjoy it.
How did I get to this place again?
How do I get myself out of it?
You just have to do it. Whether you feel like it or not. Just do it!
Here’s How I Pull Myself Out of the Funk
1. Just Do It
Whatever it is that you’re putting off or making excuses not to do. Throw it all out the door and just get started. One step at a time. Get that bra on, pull on a pair of leggings with a baggy hoodie, throw your hair up or put a hat on and leave your house. Just leaving my house gives me energy. I know it takes a lot for me to do, and I try to talk myself out of it every second of getting ready, but I know in my head I need to leave and go do something.
2. Go For a Walk
Just get outside and go for a walk. Breathe in the fresh air. Take your kids with you or your dogs and just get out. Being in the 4 walls of your home every day can make you go insane easily. Put some music on or your favorite podcast and walk to clear your mind.
3. Do Something For Yourself
Go get your hair or nails done. Get a pedicure. Go sit at your favorite park with your favorite book. Go get a massage. Try to remember what it is you really enjoy doing or something that brings you peace. Start a new hobby or try something you’ve been wanting to do. I’ve wanted to start a blog for years and I finally just did it. It’s my time to write and get out whatever it is I’m feeling at the time. It’s time where I can clear my head and think on my own.
4. Get Yourself Put Together
Get a shower, do your hair, put on a little make up and get dressed! Just doing this one thing is good for your mental health and is an instant mood changer. Check out my Get Yourself Ready post to see what I’m talking about.
5. Workout
I don’t know about you, but I have never felt awful after a good workout. 30 minutes is all it takes to not only get your body moving but it clears your mind. When I work out I feel like supermom. There’s nothing stopping me. There are so many at home workouts out there, pick on and get moving!
6. Start A Hobby or Project
Something that you’ve been wanting to do. Start a garden, reading, journaling, start a blog, get into crafts, knitting, learn how to do something new. Refresh your memory of something you did pre kids or used to love doing. Start that home project you’ve been putting off because it’ll take forever. It won’t get done if you don’t start. Make the time once a week to do something that’s just for you.
7. Change Your Thoughts
This is temporary. What you’re feeling is not permanent. Change the way you’re thinking about the current situation. Stop all the negatives thoughts and start thinking positive. It’s easy to think of all the things you don’t like or things that are going wrong but instead start thinking of the ways you can make them better. Make a list of things you can do to improve whatever aspect of your life you’re dealing with in the moment. Shift your mindset to what is going right in your life rather than what’s missing.
Take these 7 tips and don’t let the funk sneak its way into your life.
Think Positive!
Stay Positive!
And remember the funk is only temporary.
