Your Favorite Summer Habits Don't Have to Retire in September
Just as I finally settle into summer ease, the back-to-school countdown starts creeping back in. In the finale of the Sane Mom Summer series, I ask the question that matters most as fall approaches: does the joy have to end just because summer does? (Spoiler: duh, no.)
Moms who feel that familiar anxiety creeping back in as summer winds down
Parents who tend to let self-care slide the second the school year starts
Moms looking for a simple, doable way to protect the good parts of summer through fall
Anyone who's followed the Sane Mom Summer series and wants the wrap-up
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What You'll Get
Why summer joy tends to disappear the second school starts
Heather Moulder's self-care equation, and why "self-care" belongs above the to-do list instead of buried at the bottom of it
A simple exercise: naming three specific things from summer that genuinely made you feel like yourself
How to actually protect that time with one bigger, calendar-worthy ritual and one small, recurring one
The throughline for the whole Sane Mom Summer series: you get to notice what works for you and build around it
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Your Host
Caitlin Kindred is the host of Not Quite Grownup, a podcast for moms navigating the gap between who they're "supposed" to be and the messy, real version of adulthood.
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Sources & Mentions
Heather Moulder's self-care equation (work + family + chores + other — with "other" including self-care), referenced as the framework for prioritizing self-care in the epsiode
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