Sorry Not Sorry
In the last 48 hours, I have been called judgemental, condescending, inspiring, and encouraging. One post…lots of opinions. And I’m here for all of it. The word “judgemental” has been thrown at me a lot more than I expected when I started this account and that’s ok. I’m honestly kind of over dancing around it. We make judgments on things and people every day, it’s how we form our opinions, it’s part of human nature. I think that it can become problematic when you treat people poorly due to your own judgements but we are all allowed our own opinions. This account is a collection of mine.
There is a lot of talk lately on social about how we need to stop shaming mothers. It might sound insensitive but I’m not really sure when we all became so sensitive to information that we feel shame if someone has a different view point than we do. I’ve thought about this a lot this week in the wake of my post. My intention is never to shame anyone but moms let me scream it from the rooftops if anyone is making you feel shame…run, delete, unfollow, you are too good for that. And if my account makes you feel like that, than this is not the place for you.
I aim to educate, inspire, motivate, and provoke thought and conversation and that is pretty much never sugar-coated or wrapped in a neat bow, that’s not me so if you are looking for the fluffy wishy-washy gray area that makes you feel better about the things you wish you were doing better you are not going to get that from me. It’s why this account doesn’t have thousands of followers and that’s okay. If I change one person’s life, one parent’s perspective, one family’s eating habits, then it was all worth it for me. Lastly, I will end this soap box with this: My posts are very small snipbit of how I feel about any particular thing. When it comes to how people feed their families there are endless reasons that form those choices from cultural preferences, to finances, to simple access to food. Instagram gives me 2200 characters, not nearly enough space for all nuances that we could really dive into, but please know I do think about all of those things and hold a space for how those shape our eating habits