What’s it like to work with Mom In The Balance? On this page I’ll tell you the kinds of results my clients experience, my fundamental beliefs about what it takes to thrive, the approach I take with clients, and what sets me apart from other coaches and resources you have.
My passion is to inspire and support sandwich generation moms (moms who juggle responsibilities for their kids and their parents) to thrive even when life feels stressful, chaotic, and too challenging.
To thrive is to flourish — to grow and develop well and vigorously. When you are thriving, you experience many benefits, including these:
You pay attention to your needs and wants, advocating for them and asking for support when you need it. You listen to and trust the wise part of yourself that lets you know when you need a break or need some exercise, or when you need help. You begin to feel good about taking care of yourself.
You pursue your own career, interests and passions. You move forward with activities and pursuits that are independent of your roles as mother and daughter, fueling your sense of individual identity.
You trust yourself to make good decisions. You take in information from external sources while paying attention to your own common sense and healthy intuition.
You feel hopeful and even optimistic about what is possible. You’re committed to cultivating optimism and you habitually practice gratitude.
You know what to do when you feel overwhelmed. You recognize when it all feels like too much, and you turn to the people and practices that you know will nourish you in hard times.
You let go of the fear that surrounds things you can’t control. You live in the present moment and limit your ruminating about the future.
You accept and forgive yourself for your mistakes, weaknesses, and shortcomings, and accept and forgive others, too. You believe that even with all your flaws, you’re good enough as is. You let go of the pressure to be perfect.
Many of us find that thriving doesn’t come naturally. It requires letting go of some old habits and ways of thinking and adopting a number of paradigm shifts.
My unique approach to helping moms in the balance learn to thrive is based on these fundamental beliefs:
1. You can thrive
Contrary to what many people believe, you can thrive even when life is challenging. It isn’t so much your circumstances that determine whether you thrive as it is your approach to your circumstances.
Developing the habits and mindset that allow you to thrive does not take hours out of your day. You don’t need to choose between getting things done and thriving. You can attend to your responsibilities, even if they compete with one another, and thrive at the same time.
2. You can trust yourself
We tend to focus on our problems and what’s wrong with us. But when we reflect on all the times we have handled difficult situations, we increase our trust in ourselves.
When you can sincerely trust in your ability to handle life as it comes, many of your fears, worries, and other barriers to thriving lose their power.
3. Inner conflict is normal
Caring for both kids and parents is challenging and stressful, sometimes heartbreaking. It brings many pressures on a practical level (solving problems) and on an emotional level. Add pursuing a career to the mix and you’ve got a lot of potential conflicts in your life.
Being a mom in the balance may be dredging up all kinds of negative emotions that are uncomfortable, such as guilt, anger, sadness, shame or grief.
When you’re able to acknowledge the existence of those difficult feelings — when you can integrate and embrace them instead of turn away from them — you are better able to thrive. That’s what I help moms in the balance to do!
4. You need to have a network
Juggling responsibilities for your parents and your kids can be a lonely job. It’s easy to shoulder too much on your own and stay isolated, just at the time you crave more connection, understanding, and compassion.
When you have a tribe of people who are rooting for your success and well-being, and when you call on them for support, you are setting yourself up to thrive.
Sharing stories and experiences with other moms who are on the same path can be especially empowering and gratifying. Your energy level increases, your perspective shifts, and you feel inspired to try new ideas.
All four of these fundamental beliefs shape my approach with clients, as do my professional and interpersonal styles.
There are several key things I want you to know about my approach:
I focus on tangible results
It’s not enough that you simply “feel better” as a result of your time working with me. You bring me your specific, nagging problems and I help create solutions that lead to more creativity, power and peace. We strategize approaches, set goals, create action plans, and track progress.
I am blunt when necessary
By nature, I am both empathetic and blunt. This means that you will receive the compassion, care, and understanding you expect, along with the very direct observations and questions that you might not have expected, but that you will appreciate anyway!
I use many different resources to help you get results
I am a huge believer in the idea that “one size does not fit all.” I have a slew of products, services, tools, and practices that I choose from to best fit your particular situation, personality, and interests.
Whether you love to write, hate to work alone, love to connect with others, or hate anything too “woo woo,” I can provide an approach that will help you reach your goal.
I apply the wisdom of experts in my approach
I’ve been called a “psychology geek” because I just can’t seem to learn enough about human nature and how our minds work. I am always in the middle of reading one or more books by positive psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, and respected mind-body experts.
I synthesize and apply what I know about positivity, mindfulness, motivation, effective decision making, and kaizen (continuous improvement) to help you learn how to thrive in your many roles as a mom juggling your kids, your aging parents and your career.
I’m a workplace expert
I have many years of career coaching experience, as well as a background in corporate human resources management that I rely on to help you sort through and solve your particular challenges around work-life balance and career development.
My goal is to help you thrive in your whole experience as a mom in the balance. This focus sets me apart from coaches who support family caregivers or who help moms be better parents.
I am connected with several such coaches and other experts, and each of them offer valuable resources on issues such as eldercare or parenting. However, Mom In The Balance is the best place to come when you’re ready to thrive everywhere in your life, even in the midst of the challenges of caring for your parents and your kids.
Because you need to have a network to thrive and you don’t need to join yet another separate community to do so, I created the Mom In The Balance Community Facebook Page, as a way for you to get up-to-the-minute tips and links of interest and become acquainted with other moms in the balance.
When you “Like” the Mom In The Balance Community, (click on the Facebook icon in the sidebar on the right!) you’ll receive status updates and links in your Facebook feed, right alongside the updates you see from your best friend from high school and your sister-in-law. Easy!
“ I have accepted and have “inner peace” about how to be an engaged mom while working full-time that resulted from this process. I also feel much more energized and inspired to look at other things in my life and consider new ways of doing things. I feel like a new woman! I can’t thank you enough for your help getting to this point. I never thought that was possible. ”
How I Work
My process
What’s it like to work with Mom In The Balance? On this page I’ll tell you the kinds of results my clients experience, my fundamental beliefs about what it takes to thrive, the approach I take with clients, and what sets me apart from other coaches and resources you have.
My passion is to inspire and support sandwich generation moms (moms who juggle responsibilities for their kids and their parents) to thrive even when life feels stressful, chaotic, and too challenging.
To thrive is to flourish — to grow and develop well and vigorously. When you are thriving, you experience many benefits, including these:
Many of us find that thriving doesn’t come naturally. It requires letting go of some old habits and ways of thinking and adopting a number of paradigm shifts.
My unique approach to helping moms in the balance learn to thrive is based on these fundamental beliefs:
1. You can thrive
Contrary to what many people believe, you can thrive even when life is challenging. It isn’t so much your circumstances that determine whether you thrive as it is your approach to your circumstances.
Developing the habits and mindset that allow you to thrive does not take hours out of your day. You don’t need to choose between getting things done and thriving. You can attend to your responsibilities, even if they compete with one another, and thrive at the same time.
2. You can trust yourself
We tend to focus on our problems and what’s wrong with us. But when we reflect on all the times we have handled difficult situations, we increase our trust in ourselves.
When you can sincerely trust in your ability to handle life as it comes, many of your fears, worries, and other barriers to thriving lose their power.
3. Inner conflict is normal
Caring for both kids and parents is challenging and stressful, sometimes heartbreaking. It brings many pressures on a practical level (solving problems) and on an emotional level. Add pursuing a career to the mix and you’ve got a lot of potential conflicts in your life.
Being a mom in the balance may be dredging up all kinds of negative emotions that are uncomfortable, such as guilt, anger, sadness, shame or grief.
When you’re able to acknowledge the existence of those difficult feelings — when you can integrate and embrace them instead of turn away from them — you are better able to thrive. That’s what I help moms in the balance to do!
4. You need to have a network
Juggling responsibilities for your parents and your kids can be a lonely job. It’s easy to shoulder too much on your own and stay isolated, just at the time you crave more connection, understanding, and compassion.
When you have a tribe of people who are rooting for your success and well-being, and when you call on them for support, you are setting yourself up to thrive.
Sharing stories and experiences with other moms who are on the same path can be especially empowering and gratifying. Your energy level increases, your perspective shifts, and you feel inspired to try new ideas.
All four of these fundamental beliefs shape my approach with clients, as do my professional and interpersonal styles.
There are several key things I want you to know about my approach:
I focus on tangible results
It’s not enough that you simply “feel better” as a result of your time working with me. You bring me your specific, nagging problems and I help create solutions that lead to more creativity, power and peace. We strategize approaches, set goals, create action plans, and track progress.
I am blunt when necessary
By nature, I am both empathetic and blunt. This means that you will receive the compassion, care, and understanding you expect, along with the very direct observations and questions that you might not have expected, but that you will appreciate anyway!
I use many different resources to help you get results
I am a huge believer in the idea that “one size does not fit all.” I have a slew of products, services, tools, and practices that I choose from to best fit your particular situation, personality, and interests.
Whether you love to write, hate to work alone, love to connect with others, or hate anything too “woo woo,” I can provide an approach that will help you reach your goal.
I apply the wisdom of experts in my approach
I’ve been called a “psychology geek” because I just can’t seem to learn enough about human nature and how our minds work. I am always in the middle of reading one or more books by positive psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, and respected mind-body experts.
I synthesize and apply what I know about positivity, mindfulness, motivation, effective decision making, and kaizen (continuous improvement) to help you learn how to thrive in your many roles as a mom juggling your kids, your aging parents and your career.
I’m a workplace expert
I have many years of career coaching experience, as well as a background in corporate human resources management that I rely on to help you sort through and solve your particular challenges around work-life balance and career development.
My goal is to help you thrive in your whole experience as a mom in the balance. This focus sets me apart from coaches who support family caregivers or who help moms be better parents.
I am connected with several such coaches and other experts, and each of them offer valuable resources on issues such as eldercare or parenting. However, Mom In The Balance is the best place to come when you’re ready to thrive everywhere in your life, even in the midst of the challenges of caring for your parents and your kids.
Because you need to have a network to thrive and you don’t need to join yet another separate community to do so, I created the Mom In The Balance Community Facebook Page, as a way for you to get up-to-the-minute tips and links of interest and become acquainted with other moms in the balance.
When you “Like” the Mom In The Balance Community, (click on the Facebook icon in the sidebar on the right!) you’ll receive status updates and links in your Facebook feed, right alongside the updates you see from your best friend from high school and your sister-in-law. Easy!
Now that you know what it’s like to work with Mom In The Balance, you might want to learn more about me, Heather Mundell, or the services I offer through Mom In The Balance.