A Simpler Motherhood

Emily Eusanio

Description

With a quickly growing audience of more than 31,000 engaged followers, the author's blog on Instagram, @the.simplified.mom, is an opportune way to promote this first book. With her previous experience in marketing and advertising, and a solid understanding of social media marketing, the blog will easily serve as a strong platform to market this book, and that these additional relationships will all add to opportunities for endorsements and publicity.

Instagram Blog: The Simplified Mom
www.instagram.com/the.simplified.mom
Followers: 34.1K
Average Post Reach: 10.6K
Average Weekly Overall Reach: 25.5K
Average Weekly Overall Impressions: 288K
Average Weekly Profile Visits: 2.5K

Emily has partnered in the past with several well-known brands to promote their products and gain a growing audience. Her posts have been featured on the social media accounts of top companies, such as Pyrex, Thermos, Chicco, Day Designer, Branch Basics, Full Circle, Ruggable, LoveEvery and Magnatiles. Emily has been featured by The Spruce as one of the 11 Best Instagram Accounts For Minimalists (5/2020) and has conducted interviews for well-established podcasts, including The Minimalist Moms Podcast, hosted by Diane Boden, and The Everyday Motherhood Podcast, hosted by Christy Thomas.

Target Market: Stay-at-Home Mothers, ages 18-65 (11 million US) seeking ways to declutter their homes, their schedules and seeking simpler ways to find joy in raising children and maintaining their home.

The reader will be provided with simple tips, achievable changes and other ways to edit their current lifestyle, home and mindset by working through the following areas of their lives in a purposeful way:

• Simplifying their schedule and paring down their “to-do” lists
• Simplifying their possessions, their organizational systems and the spaces in their homes
• Slowing down enough to find gratitude and joy in the every day
• Finding ways to simplify their budgets, minimize their spending, and consume more intentionally
• Learning how to successfully plan meals for the week in a simpler, more minimal way
• Simplifying the flow, structure and purpose of each space in their home
• Identifying a sweet spot for spending and learning how to fight the impulse of instant gratification
• Finding ways to make daily time for themselves in realistic, achievable ways
• Identifying non-negotiable pleasures, and finding ways to consistently incorporate them into their lives
• Finding ways to celebrate holidays and seasons of life in an affordable, less stressful way
• Learning how to sort through the excess, sell or donate the unnecessary, and store the essential
• Learning how to establish healthy boundaries around technology
• Rediscovering the joys of parenting in a simpler, more intentional way, without guilt or “systems”
• Creating a stronger marriage through simpler communication, intentional planning and a commitment to less
• Re-establishing a connection with your faith, and learning to relinquish control over everything

Life wasn’t always so simple for me.

 In fact, it was the presence of way too much of everything that encouraged me to pursue a simpler, slower motherhood. To chase after a life intentionally absent of all the extra: stuff, people, commitments, standards. I was six months postpartum and absolutely drowning in the weight of it all.

 From the outside, my life looked exactly as I had dreamed it would. I was a stay-at-home mom with our beautiful son. We owned a lovely four-bedroom cape cod in one of the best school districts in the city. We drove expensive, pretty cars, owned pretty new things, and wore pretty new clothing.

 And yet, I was pretty dang miserable.

 We were doing our best to survive on one income - and yet we spent every penny we made. The stress rose in my chest each month as we dutifully made all the payments to our student loan debt, a mortgage payment slightly too large for our means, and credit card bills for frivolous, unnecessary purchases that we didn’t need – especially on such a tight budget.

 I was a floundering first-time mom. My son and I took daily trips through the Starbucks drive-thru, me ordering up a Grande flat white while he nodded off for his morning nap in the car seat. I made weekly visits to Target, browsing the aisles in search of items that would make motherhood easier, better and prettier. I spent my days glued to Google, searching for the perfect cleaning routine. The perfect sleep schedule. The perfect meal plans. And then I’d collapse at the end of the afternoon, too exhausted to cook dinner. So, I’d pick up the phone and order pizza delivery or sushi takeout instead of eating what was already right there in the fridge.

 By all accounts, I had “made” it. I was living the suburban mom dream. Yet ironically, I was more unsettled and unsatisfied than I’d ever been. I was consuming and doing too much of everything. I was measuring my success by the tasks I accomplished; the schedules I adhered to; the projects I completed. The good days were marked by a completed to-do list; an obedient, well-dressed and well-napped baby, and a perfectly tidied home. And yet, I’d go to bed at the end of the day with a sense of emptiness. Something was missing.

 It was then that the voice started. At first, it was just a whisper. A gentle request to slow down; to stop the constant hustle; the relentless quest for the perfect motherhood. It quietly rose, echoing through our newly redecorated halls and over the piles of unworn baby clothing, tags still attached. It urged me to listen; to change my ways. To stop focusing so intensely on how everything in my life looked—and to instead care more about how everything felt. And yet each time it rose above a whisper, I quickly quieted it back down by loading up the Amazon cart with a few more unnecessary items, reorganizing the playroom toys into a color-coordinated order, or scrubbing my baseboards, intently certain that it would make everything better.

 Except it didn’t.

***

Less is more. Less stuff, less work, less commitments, and less expectations all equal more happiness, more time, and more overall success. I know this sounds cliché, and I understand that this concept goes against everything society has ever taught us about success. We are told “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing right” and that “practice makes perfect.” We are told to hustle, work harder, and earn more money so that we can buy more things. We are misled down this impossible path of over-complication and overwhelm.

 You can make your own path—a simple path that you don’t have to run down. A beautiful path that leads exactly where you want to go.

 Just by choosing to read this book, you have already taken the first step down your brand-new path. This book is the shortcut to a simplified life that I wish I had fifteen years ago. Emily will walk you through exactly how to simplify every aspect of your life so that you can make space for what matters most.

 —Cassandra Aarssen, creator of Clutterbug™ (excerpted from the foreword)

Foreword

Introduction: My Simple Story

Chapter 1: A Simpler Start
Chapter 2: Simpler Schedules
Chapter 3: Simpler Spaces
Chapter 4: Simpler Spending
Chapter 5: A Simpler Kitchen
Chapter 6: Simpler Shopping
Chapter 7: A Simpler Home
Chapter 8: A Simpler Wardrobe
Chapter 9: Simpler Self-Care
Chapter 10: Simpler Seasons
Chapter 11: Simpler Storage
Chapter 12: Simpler Boundaries
Chapter 13: Simpler Parenting
Chapter 14: Writing Your Own Simple Story

Conclusion
Acknowledgements

Sujets

• Loisirs
• Loisirs créatifs et artistiques
• DIY (Do It Yourself)
• Loisirs créatifs et artistiques
• Maison
• Entretien de la maison
• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• Vie de famille
• Parentalité et Éducation des Enfants
• Adolescence et Vie de Famille
• développement personnel
• Adolescence
• Reference work
• Self-help
• Self-Management
• Time Management
• Parentalité
• Parentalité
• Parentalité

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781642508093
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

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