"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is the meaning of success." Ralph Waldo EmersonThis to me is the mantra of a ThetaMom. To celebrate ThetaMom's first anniversary, Heather has asked ThetaMoms to post on why we are ThetaMoms.
I immediately decided to become a ThetaMom after my first visit to Heather's website. I read her Mission statement, and her About Theta page, and I knew that was the way I wanted to live, and to blog.
To know the ThetaMom way of living, it's important to know the seeds of ThetaMom. They spring from the love we have for other mom bloggers, and non bloggers. It springs from our want and desire to help and lift up, to belong to a greater collective. It springs from having a purpose to our blogging, a meaning behind why we spend too many hours to count writing and reaching out to others, whether they blog or not.
Heather explains herself as originally beginning as an Alpha Mom, where she lived in the land of presenting and striving for perfection, to then staying home and living in the Beta land, where your hair is pulled back in the Mom-do ponytail for days on end.
Then, she had the epiphany, of being in the middle. Sometimes, everything does fall into place, other days...not so presentable.
And there we have the T-A, ThetaMom, where TRUE and AUTHENTIC living occurs.
Her mission for ThetaMom? To tell the truth, to present yourself as you really are, to truly care and show the way and be a shoulder when it's needed, and a cheerleader on days of doubt. There are so many truths I wish I would've been told: about pregnancy, about marriage, about children, about aging, about the politics of playgroups!!
Not every mom will be a ThetaMom, not everyone can be a ThetaMom. But the women born with the bone that tells them to help one another, to extend a hand down to pull someone up, to laugh along in the knowledge that someone gets you, and accepts you, and loves you warts and all, that is the person who hears the calling to be a ThetaMom.
If you believe we are on this planet together, to help one another, and to sometimes be the ones to show the light, and other times be the ones who need the path lit, then you, sweet friend, are a ThetaMom. Whether you make it public by following, or displaying a button, is up to you. But to live life with others in mind, and to live with the purpose of encouraging one another, is to be a ThetaMom.
Click here to read more posts written by ThetaMoms, on what it means to be a ThetaMom. Better yet, if you live as a ThetaMom, write your story and link up at ThetaMom.
Sounds like my kind of mom!
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Erin
Bravo! This is the best way I've heard it described yet! Now you are making me want to write a Theta Mom post too :)
ReplyDeleteI have liked Theta Mom for a while now! I think she is very real and honest, and so much more. Thanks so much for sharing with everyone your thoughts about her! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat and intriguing description of the community. I had seen the button on many blogs, but never clicked on it. It sounds like a great group, one I will hope to join when I fit the bill (mom).
ReplyDeleteThat first quote by Emerson is one of my favorites. So good!
ReplyDeleteI am staring at my compter right now...and I have tears rolling down my face.
ReplyDeleteYOU, my friend, just captured the very essence of a Theta Mom so beautifully and profound and you integrated the fact that this community is ALL about supporting one another as we navigate through this journey together. We ARE a community of THETA MOMS.
I can't tell you in words right now how touched I am by this post. I am booking marking it, as I plan to reflect on this post time and time again...
You have struck a chord with me with these words, perhaps because it has been the vision I have had for Theta Mom for so long - and this "dream" of having other women experience and understand it with me, is well, simply magic.
Thank you, for these words - for being such a supportive blogger - and for sharing a piece of yourself. You ARE a Theta Mom, and I couldn't be more proud to stand beside you.
xo
You are a light in the blogging world, my friend. This was incredibly beautiful! I truly mean that.
ReplyDeleteNicely done. This Theta Mom stuff is news to me... will check it out.
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What a beautiful post and such a great tribute to Theta Mom (I love her too!) I love so much what you wrote about how we support each other and help each other grow. It is so true. The light that you and all my other bloggy and real mommy friends bring into my life is incredible. Thank you, Empress. And thank you, Theta Mom. You are both such amazing people.
ReplyDeleteYou always manage to say things better than everyone else can! Well done, A!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful and honest post. I enjoyed reading it .
ReplyDeleteExcellent post! And exactly why I have enjoyed reading all of the Theta Mom posts and getting to know and support other moms out there. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI think this is so well said. Just beautiful. Definitely the kind of mom I strive to be! I'll have to check out this THETA MOM that you speak so highly of!!
ReplyDeleteNicely done Theta Mom post from a very nice Mom indeed
ReplyDeleteI gave you an award at my site! xo
ReplyDeleteLove this!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you truly are a Theta Mom.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you need a shirt? Like a super hero?
That's a wonderful quote and a wonderful post, too.
ReplyDeleteYou always fill me with such warmth every time I come here and read your thoughtful words. This is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThat is the way to be.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful writing. You make me wanna be a Theta Mom.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful description and as much as I might be able to relate, I doubt I could keep up.
ReplyDeleteI have heard of thetamom too, but never visited the link. It sounds like a most awesomely fabulous place. Thanks for writing about it. Because you cant use your friends as therapists forever...hardeeharhar! I like.
ReplyDeleteWow! So ... how do we apply? :)
ReplyDeleteFound you through TBC ... choosing to follow!
going to have to check out Theta Mom. Especially since you're on it and you are simply the best.
ReplyDeleteI have always felt built up after just a comment from you. I know you're just... one of those people.
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So yes. You 'get' it.
The rest of us can only aspire.
Beautiful, Empress!!!
ReplyDeleteAlexandra, this explains SO much about you. What a wonderful philosophy! You have the bone, my dear. You are the shoulder and the cheerleader! All hail the Empress!
ReplyDeleteYou are such a great person. Thanks for this beautiful post.
ReplyDeleteYour Theta-Mom-ness is so very apparent in your Lucky Charms toast. And in teaching your boys "to not be lazy so someone will marry them." (Not to mention giving your son the Monday blog slot.) =>
ReplyDeleteI strive to be a Theta Mom everyday. I fail miserably at times but I'm proud of all the times, I've reached my "goal". I loved this post.
ReplyDeleteWOW I am speechless and have nothing else to add but I bow to you! Your words are so true and very spot on! Thank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteI have so much respect for Heather and her site. And I am not at all surprised to learn that you are a member of the ThetaMom community because you, my dear, are true and authentic all the way!
ReplyDeleteVery well written! Reading other women's stories and blogs has helped me so much in the short time that I've been a Mom. And Heather's mission was what gave me the courage to hit "publish" on my Theta Mom post. I do believe we're all here to help each other in any way possible. Great to meet you :)
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm a ThetaMom. Good Intention is half the battle though. I'm doing my best to be true and authentic and to try not to let those days when NOTHING aligns define me as a mom!
ReplyDeleteIt helps to have such good examples of wiser, more experienced moms like you!
Here, here! It's all about encouragement! I love your post and couldn't agree more. Love your site!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post. I hadn't really thought about the truth that not everyone can be a Theta mom... it never occurred to me not to be. But it's true -- otherwise why would there be playgroup politics and mom-guilt?
ReplyDeleteIt's great to meet you over here. I keep reading about "the Empress" and finally had a second to pop by. I'll be back!
Fantastic post! Yours is one of the posts that encouraged me to visit Theta Mom and ultimately join! One visit to her site and reading all the authentic voices had me at "hello". :) Thank you! I absolutely love your blog and are looking forward to your return, hope vacation is going wonderfully!
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