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Finding "Me Time" On Your Working Mom Schedule For A Women's Social Network

Working moms' have endeavored for decades to overcome the plight of having no personal time. The difficulty that "working mothers" (for our purposes, meaning mothers who leave home every day for their other job) face is nothing new. Even with the trend of male spouses sharing more of the parenting workload, it often takes resources like a women's social network to realize the goal of some time to yourself. But Hurray! At least there is hope for those of you who have yet to find their place.

If you can find your way into a weekly women's club of some sort, that is your best bet for a starting point. Lacking the resources to find one, an online women's community can be a great tool to connect you to other women in your area, eventually, hopefully, yielding a group of women who share one of your interests and want to meet each week. You will get some time each week where you don't owe anyone anything and you are not in charge of dinner or sorting out fights or cleaning up or anything. Your only job is to enjoy talking about this week's book, walking around the block, or making a birdhouse.

Because the meetings are weekly, you get to put it on the family schedule. It is real, and it is a commitment, so you are less likely to put it off for your son's science project. Whatever the group you ultimately opt for does, it has to serve that one all-important purpose: letting you leave your daily obligations and stress at the door for a while, to experience the unfettered bliss that many of us remember from being Girl Scouts, just playing and learning with our friends.

Usually, getting a moment of peace requires a physical escape. A women's online community can be a great place to find a group, as well as to vent, voice questions, and connect with like-minded women across physical barriers. But sneaking a few minutes on the internet to check a forum will probably fall short of meeting your needs for "me" time. Whether you find your women's group on the internet, through neighbors, mothers of your children's classmates, by joining a class to learn a new skill, or just due to random luck, be sure you do. Find a group, and do the thing that group does.

There are a few other steps you can take to help keep in a generally positive frame of mind. The first thing you can do is, unfortunately, schedule. If you create a schedule that everyone knows about that includes your meeting, and you make the commitment to yourself to that time, you are more likely to take a breath of peace and sanity. Part of doing this means accepting that even if things will get done differently without you, they will still get done and everything will be fine.

Another important thing to keep in mind is that you need a healthy amount of sleep, exercise, and healthy food. Ignoring these things has a dramatic effect on moods, concentration, mental health, and general effectiveness. Keeping you mind-body-spirit chemically and emotionally balanced will do wonders for your stress and the family.

Lastly, cut the time wasters. We have all accidently burned two hours on Facebook, iVillage, Youtube, or in front of some sordid talk show. If your goal is to zone out and decompress, then by all means do so. Just watch out for the trap of wasting free-time on something meaningless, even if that happens to be a very important women's social network, that will leave you feeling unfulfilled and regretful, when you could have been doing something equally relaxing such as reading a book.

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