# @thesharonmoms on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcJf_7yG6z2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69161296-thesharonmoms-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-17T16:46:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Brit & Sydney Sharon (@thesharonmoms) — https://gondola.cc/thesharonmoms

## Caption

I didn’t grow up with affirmations taped to a mirror. I grew up with a therapist mom who said things out loud, over and over, until they became the voice in my own head.

Not just for the hard days. That’s the part people miss.

She never taught me how to survive the bad without also teaching me how to stay in the good. How to let a proud moment be proud without shrinking it. How to notice joy instead of rushing past it to the next thing on the list.

And she taught me the difference between a feeling and the story I tell about it. The feeling is real, always. But the story — the meaning I make of it, the verdict I hand myself — that part I get to choose.

These are the things she still says to me. In the hard, in the good, in the in-between that’s neither.

Which one do you need today? ↓

#gentleparenting #consciousparenting #selfcompassion #mymotherhood #selflovemovement

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gentleparenting, selfcompassion, selflovemovement, consciousparenting, mymotherhood

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