How To Romanticize Your Life As A New Mom
As a sometimes chronically online Gen Z woman, I have been loving the push in recent years to “romanticize my life” by cultivating little moments of joy and real dopamine in my current circumstances, instead of wishing for different ones. However, as a new mom, sometimes the suggestions for how to do so, like going on a spontaneous picnic or treating myself to a DIY makeover, seem woefully out of reach.
Like “self-care” before it, romanticizing can quickly become a game of aesthetics and “simple moments” carefully curated for social media. To tap into its power as a new mom, I've had to go back to basics and dig into the real meaning and mindset behind the romanticizing trend, developing some principles for leaning into moments of joy in my life, even with a young baby.