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Let’s recap the last four weeks in the series – Six Essentials Every Mom Needs to be the Best Mom for their Kids. 

1. Love Yourself
2. Mindset Matters
3. Ditch the Manuals
4. Take Care of your Temple

This week, let’s dive into letting go of other people’s opinions.

Letting this go; that’s a hard pill to swallow for a recovering people pleaser like me. 

Honestly, a lot of my time was spent unconsciously figuring out how I could get people to like me.  I would pretend and twist myself into a mold I thought they would want me to fit.  Ultimately, it was lying.  The problem with lying, you get caught and eventually realize you don’t even know the truth any more.

This really hit home when my oldest started school.  I noticed that she would come home very upset most days.  I learned that her “friends” were running away from her and telling her that they didn’t want to be her friend...