Book Review: Slay Like a Mother

Slay Like a Mother, by Katherine Wintsch

How to Destroy What's Holding You Back So You Can Live the Life You Want

• Speaking from the heart

• Easy to follow prompts

• Slay your "dragon" theme

• Validating quotes and mantras

This book title and much of it's content are geared for moms and mother figures. However, the dragon of self doubt is one we all have to slay!

From the very first pages Wintsch had me hooked. I'm not a mom to any human babies, but her telling of being sprawled out on her office floor with work, constantly being busy or needing to be, and trying to always keep up with something - it all hit home.

I went through the next couple chapters nodding and taking notes, and then ultimately just started book marking the great parts. The paragraphs that felt validating when it came to being anxious, doubting yourself, the expectations we have for ourselves, and more are all simply and honestly said.

The one quote, that came with my copy of the book - I almost tears up just opening this.

"It's not empowering to think you can always do more. It's actually exhausting."

This sums up pre and during pandemic, career goal setting, stay at home, work from home, etc life for me. I read it and just felt my shoulders slump and lungs open. I read it while holding the book but standing amongst my laptop, a pile of laundry, throwing a dog toy, wishing I hadn't bought the store made meatballs for dinner I should've done homemade, and thinking that I still didn't weed the front garden. And how did I not do all these things?! I'm home all day, with an awesome work schedule. How did I not do it all, while making a better blog and writing the next great American novel. How am I not succeeding?

^This was what I was standing amongst when the book arrived. Talk about the universe and booksta just knowing when to wake you up.

I have poured through the pages, and to be truthful I want to go back and write down all the quotes I marked. Writing them down helps make them real to my individual self - I don't know if other feel that way about annotating and notes. Suddenly the book has truly spoken to you and you're carrying a piece of it with you in a different way.

So - Yes. I am childless, without any family living nearby to even continue to random child care. And this book helped me. Wintsch and this book found me and gave me a pep talk, a shoulder, and an empty sticky note pad.

This walked through the following, but so much more. You must check it out!

• Self doubt, all about it

• Expectations for yourself

• Shame

• Negative self thoughts

• Love, all of it

• Self compassion

For fans of: Untamed, Lean In, Fear is My Homeboy, You're a Badass - Check this out!

Thank you SO MUCH to the author for my gifted copy. It's well loved.

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