There are seasons in life where we feel like we have lost ourselves, especially in motherhood. We might feel stuck and like we aren't enjoying our lives. I want to talk to how we can move 'away from pain' or 'towards pleasure',  and some simple ways we can bring delight and passion into our daily lives. 

In this episode, Shawna Scafe, Professional Counsellor and Coach speaks on:

The language we use to talk about passionate living, desire, enjoying life, pleasure and callings

What I have learned about 'callings' and dreams

Times in life we feel stuck and how that can lead to lowered motivation

Making decisions from a place of stress

Two types of motivation: towards and away

177. Understanding what is motivating you (chasing vs avoiding)201. Overcoming negative self-talk and to moving towards positive self-talkBook - Pure Pleasure: Why do Christians feel so bad about feeling good? 

The way our culture, upbringing and our own assumptions impact how we enjoy our lifeThe discomfort we might feel with giving ourselves permission to enjoy our lives, especially as moms and the guilt that comes upThe way martyrdom holds us back from enjoying our life

67. Making motherhood harder than it needs to be (Mom Martyr)138. Is momlife UNFUN? How to be a more FUN MOM, stop withholding fun from yourself

Start with simple things 

Show up for yourself in small waysListening to yourself Ideas on ways to delight in your life today

 The Life on Purpose Community In this episode, I talk about the upcoming post I will be sharing in the Patreon on the topic of How to Not Lose Yourself in Motherhood.

If you would like access to this bonus content and join the Patreon community, head on over to Life on Purpose Community and join us there. 

Full Transcript (unedited)

0:06All right, this is Take three. Hey, friends. It's Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and counselor from simple on purpose.ca. Welcome to the simple on purpose podcast. See, that was easy. I don't know why it takes me so long to do that sometimes.

All right, so we're getting ready here in BC. For spring break, we're gonna have spring break with the kids home for two weeks. And I think we're all excited about it, it felt like life has been really busy with extracurricular activities, hockey, all of that stuff in so we're just going to hang out with family. Hopefully conor and I will get a night away, the kids will visit their grandparents just hang out around the house, I have the idea of making everyone watch the Harry Potter movies with me and going on family walks. But my kids have different ideas. They want to bike around with friends have sleepovers, and play video games. So hopefully we can do a bit of both.

Today, I want to talk to you about how excited you feel about your life. And if you're already thinking and not excited, and is that even an option. That's okay, let's talk about that, too. When I was thinking about this podcast episode, I wanted to call it something like living with more passion, or passionate living, I actually don't have a title for it yet. So we'll see what I choose. This is language that I use for myself. '

But it is interesting to think even of the word passion, if you look it up, the Latin root of that word means to endure, to suffer, undergo. But in our modern culture, we usually relate the word passion to things related to lust or being fired up, we think it's really positive and energizing feeling in general, because I was thinking about other terms I could use.

One was dreaming bigger with your life. But I think some people find the sense of dreaming bigger, childish, or even like pressure that where you are isn't enough.

Enjoying your life, which is a slogan, you've heard me say, this is your life, you should enjoy it. And even when I do say that, I know that it can sound maybe unattainable or out of reach,