We all have those days. You know the ones. The days that seem endless. The ones where you open your eyes and everything just seems… hard. The kids are fighting, crying, clingy. They’re making mess and giving attitude. Honestly? These days are shit.

I’ve had a few of these days lately. It seems sometimes that the world is piling stress on top of stress and all of a sudden you’re a person that you don’t really want to be. I’m snapping at my kids for the smallest things and hating myself for hours afterwards. My patience is out the window.

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I read somewhere that having some 'mantras' in your head during times of stress can take you down a level so I gave it a go. Guess what? It worked. Sure, having the kids draw all over my couch with texta still had me raging but I felt more in control than I had for a while. So I decided to write some mantras to get through those days. I might even mount some on a motivational poster and hang them on the back of the laundry door (which is where I hide with the chocolate block on such days)

Do you use any mantras to get through stressful days?