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Confessions of a Corporate Mama

March 22, 2019 By Janine Ganska

I used to dream of what I’d be like when I was a mom. I played with dolls until right before my teens with elaborate scenarios that I sometimes I enrolled my brother in (he would grudgingly play the family dog) that emulated my home life -i.e stay at home mom, working dad etc. Yet, as I grew older my mindset had shifted to one of a career. I still wanted a family but was happy to create that around my job. Little did I know that Night Weaning my toddler would almost break me!

Before I had my first son (10 years into my career path), I began to research all things parenting (didn’t we all?). I dove into all things natural like essential oils and cloth diapering. One thing I also focused on was homeschooling/un-schooling/wild-schooling. This concept was incredibly enlightening to me and all I could see was a life of teaching my soon to be child and possible future children the way of the world without the restrictions of traditional schooling that I had personally found failed me (but that’s a different story). Following his lead on what interested him (all things sea creatures at the moment) and creating an atmosphere to love learning and the journey. I focused on an exit strategy to my corporate job so that I could stay at home, be the Pinterest mom (newsflash- I’m very much an Amazon Prime mom) and become the epitome of my mom just new age.

Here’s the thing, the thing that took me almost 5 years to admit to myself. I am not that mom. (I will pause here to say I have absolute respect for everyone’s personal journey and path. This is just mine.) What I discovered about myself is I love the challenge of my job, I love learning and expanding and for me, personally, I was very energized in my career. I could not, but more importantly did not want, to stop my career to home school or be a mom that home made decorations for parties and all the things that I can pay for or get help from friends for etc.

I confess, that there were (and still are) many a morning that I am happy to escape the chaos of a screaming toddler and a breakdown of a preschooler. I am not the mom that wants to be home all day, I don’t, and it’s taken me 5 years to say it honestly and be OK with. I am OK that I enjoy going to work, I am OK that my kids drive me crazy and sometimes when I come home I just need ME time.

I love my children, I thoroughly am enjoying watching them grow and seeing all they are interested in, the glitter projects currently (thanks YouTube…). I love our family time and I love my career. I confess to being happy with my current situation and proud of my accomplishments.

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5 Things I Learned from 90 Days of Meditating

December 22, 2018 By Janine Ganska

I’ve always wanted to “learn” to meditate.  I mean, I watched Eat, Pray, Love, I read the book and I couldn’t help but think that her level of achieving Zen and just being calm in the moment would be a priceless skill to acquire.

I’m a person who is consistently in her head, lots of balls up in the air, a master at multitasking.  I set a goal for myself to meditate for 90 days straight. Here is what I discovered in the process.

  1. All meditation you should consider a success. You thought of your to do list the whole time? Your kids? Great, there is no wrong way to meditate. One thing to consider is to try different types of meditations. YouTube is a great place for this. I’ve found guided meditations and visualizing meditations work best for me as they take me on the journey I enjoy going on. As I got further in my journey I did get better at keeping the spontaneous thoughts to a minimum
  2. One size does not fit all. In the beginning I wanted to go deeper and improve on my concentration. I found that meditations with visualization really helped me. I had to focus on what they were telling me to focus on so when my mind wandered it was much easier to get back on course. I find power in the spoken word so most of my meditations contain speaking of some sort. It isn’t wrong that your mind wanders.
  3. Seeing your thoughts as fluid. What this means for me is that during my meditation I had to see my thoughts as they were, acknowledge them and send them on their way. For me, again with the visualization, I would see a midnight black train that was continually moving horizontally in front of me in a sea of black space. When a thought comes in, I recognize it then “put it on the train” to be taken away.
  4. When should you meditate? I meditate at all times of the days but I find it most powerful to meditate in the morning, preferably with sun shining on my closed eyes. I meditate sitting up, leaning against a wall, sometimes laying down. The biggest impact of success for me with meditating was there not being interruptions and committing to no less than 10 minutes a session. Its helpful to increase the time as well as change up what you meditate to. I’ve gained new perspective each time I’ve changed my normal routine.
  5. What are the benefits? I have found the most powerful benefit of my meditations is that I can pause, in my day, in my thoughts, in my to do list and let the Universe in. Sometimes, staying motivated is hard (read about how I stay motivated Here). This may mean it’s a slap upside the head about a situation I’ve been avoiding and I just get this insight whilst meditating or shortly after of what my next steps should be. Sometimes its an overwhelming sense of love that I hadn’t been focusing on prior as the thoughts of my to do lists run through my mind. When you let in what lies beneath the surface you are bound to be led where you will find benefits.

You truly do not have to know anything about meditating to start. Find one on YouTube (or an app- I use Insight Timer) that appeals to you,  get comfortable, close your eyes let the Universe guide you.

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I used to dream of what I’d be like when I was a mom. I played with dolls until right before my teens with elaborate scenarios that I sometimes I enrolled my brother in (he would grudgingly play the family dog) that emulated my home life -i.e stay at home mom, working dad etc. Yet,…

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I’ve always wanted to “learn” to meditate.  I mean, I watched Eat, Pray, Love, I read the book and I couldn’t help but think that her level of achieving Zen and just being calm in the moment would be a priceless skill to acquire. I’m a person who is consistently in her head, lots of…

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What Are Essential Oils? I get asked this question a lot and I totally understand why! When I started my essential oil journey over 5 years ago I had never heard of essential oils. I won’t go so far as to say I thought they were hippie black magic…but… I just couldn’t understand how these…

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One of my personal goals is to stay motivated in my personal life. I’ve always been incredibly motivated by other people’s stories, especially motivational speakers (I guess that’s the point right?). I loved to hear where they came from. The struggles they faced and ultimately overcame. How adversity led them to this grand life they…

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Like many first time parents I was eager to learn healthy and natural alternative ways to feed my child (Read about Essential Oils HERE or BabyWearing HERE). I ran out and bought a Baby Bullet thinking I would puree all my own foods etc. Then I was introduced to a concept I had never heard…

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