More Than a Mom: How Prioritizing Your Wellness Helps You (and Your Family) Thrive

by Kari Kampakis

Overview

What if taking care of yourself was the first step to helping your family thrive?

If you’ve parented long enough, then you’ve learned firsthand why your personal wellness matters. You’ve felt the pain (or consequences) of devaluing yourself. Whether your wake-up call came from a diagnosis, a breakdown, an issue with your child or spouse, anxiety, or simply feeling depleted and numb, it most likely unveiled this truth: 

Mothers are humans too. We require love, compassion, rest, and renewal. Taking care of our needs strengthens us and equips us for the road ahead. 

In More Than a Mom, bestselling author Kari Kampakis offers a practical, approachable, and attainable framework to stay on a healthy path. You can take your kids only as far as you’ve come–and since their strength builds on your strength, you must take time to focus on you. More Than a Mom is about unleashing God’s power in your life and standing on timeless truths that will help you

• know your worth and embrace your purpose,
• build strong, uplifting friendships that you can model for your children,
• quit the negative self-talk and make peace with your body, and
• learn to mother yourself by resting and setting boundaries.

The world shaping your children is more callous and complex than the world that shaped you. Kids need to be stronger, smarter, and more rooted in what’s real. Empower your son or daughter by tending to your heart, soul, body, and mind. Give them a vision of a healthy adult–and know that as they launch into the real world, they will build on what you started.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785234173
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	292,704
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Kari Kampakis is an author, blogger, and national speaker from Birmingham, Alabama. Her bestselling book for moms, Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter, and books for teen girls, 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know and Liked: Whose Approval Are You Living For?, have been used widely across the country for small group studies. Kari’s work has been featured on the Today show, Today Parents, Yahoo! News, Grown & Flown, Motherly, FaithGateway, EWTN, Ann Voskamp’s blog, HuffPost, and other national outlets. She also hosts a podcast called Girl Mom. She and her husband, Harry, have four daughters and a dog named Lola.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

1 Know Your Worth

A Mother Needs to Feel Valued 1

2 Rest

A Mother Needs to Feel Restored 19

3 Build Uplifting Friendships

A Mother Needs to Feel Encouraged 41

4 Conquer Stress and Anxiety with Truth

A Mother Needs to Feel Empowered 63

5 Choose Joy

A Mother Needs to Feel Comforted 79

6 Quit the Negative Self-Talk

A Mother Needs to Feel Confident 95

7 Make Peace with Your Body

A Mother Needs to Feel Beautiful 119

8 Fight the Good Fight

A Mother Needs to Feel Capable 141

9 Embrace Your Purpose

A Mother Needs to Feel Important 159

10 Live in Hope

A Mother Needs to Feel Optimistic 177

Conclusion 189

Notes 195

Acknowledgments 201

About the Author 205