My Practices of Mothering Quotes

“Let me remember how the most fearless thing we can do is keep showing up with love and grace and joy in our real, right-now lives.”
― Sarah Bessey, My Practices of Mothering: How to Enjoy Mothering Tinies

“One of the great lies women tend to embrace is this one: We are only as valuable as how we look or what we do or what we produce.”
― Sarah Bessey, My Practices of Mothering: How to Enjoy Mothering Tinies

“The freedom of living loved extends into every aspect of parenting because I can release my death-grip of control. It enables me to extend to my tinies the gifts of freedom (age appropriate, of course) and grace, second chances and then more grace. It means that I don't really care what people think of them or me, I can look only to God, living counter to our culture in every way of truth, love, faith, mercy and justice.”
― Sarah Bessey, My Practices of Mothering: How to Enjoy Mothering Tinies