“Jen-Centric”
My screen names and blog titles tell a lot about myself.
Last year I was one of the many LOST fanatics who lived, breathed, and dreamed about LOST. That’s where the title Jen-Centric comes from. Every LOST episode “centered” around a different character. My life and therefore my blogs center around me so…..Jen-Centric.
I am learning to focus on my strengths not weaknesses as per some very good podcast ADDvice. I KNOW that I believe greatly in the power of oneself. I believe that being the best ME is the best gift I can give my friends and family. My beliefs about God even come down to; his greatest gift to us is our freedom to choose right from wrong and to choose what to believe and not believe. I just bought Tom Rath’s Strengthsfinder 2.0 and I am very eager to officially find out what my strengths are. Since I am very intuitive, sympathetic, and empathetic I have a feeling many of my strengths will reside in this area. I can’t wait to see if my intuition is correct.
The other screen name I go by is Mom2Lindsey. The screen name is self- explanatory. Being a mom to Lindsey is the biggest redesign of self image in my almost 40 years of age. For the first 6 years of Lindsey, I am pretty sure Jen-Centric was no where to be found. I was 24/7 Mom2Lindsey. I am realizing that another one of my ADD strengths is my ability to hyperfocus and become completely devoted to one thing at a time. Hyper-focusing on your kids is also very normal and socially acceptable. Unfortunately, there is a downside to every ADD strength and the downside to this strength is that I ignore everything that is not involved in what I am hyper-focusing on. During Lindsey’s first 6 years I completely ignored my personal health and well-being in order to be supermom and do everything perfect (how did that work out?). When my daughter went off to Kindergarten in 2009 I was shocked at how unraveled I became. My entire mind, body and soul had had enough, and was screaming for me to pay attention. I had to stop pretending to be perfect and just be myself again.
Being almost 40 I am in the midst of another self-image makeover. I am trying to find the balance between taking care of myself and being the best mom/wife I can be. I have separated the two for the the beginning of Lindsey’s life, which wasn’t right. I can really identify with all those magnets and bumper stickers that say “balanced mom”. Maybe that should be my new screen name; balancedmom40…..
Last year I was one of the many LOST fanatics who lived, breathed, and dreamed about LOST. That’s where the title Jen-Centric comes from. Every LOST episode “centered” around a different character. My life and therefore my blogs center around me so…..Jen-Centric.
I am learning to focus on my strengths not weaknesses as per some very good podcast ADDvice. I KNOW that I believe greatly in the power of oneself. I believe that being the best ME is the best gift I can give my friends and family. My beliefs about God even come down to; his greatest gift to us is our freedom to choose right from wrong and to choose what to believe and not believe. I just bought Tom Rath’s Strengthsfinder 2.0 and I am very eager to officially find out what my strengths are. Since I am very intuitive, sympathetic, and empathetic I have a feeling many of my strengths will reside in this area. I can’t wait to see if my intuition is correct.
The other screen name I go by is Mom2Lindsey. The screen name is self- explanatory. Being a mom to Lindsey is the biggest redesign of self image in my almost 40 years of age. For the first 6 years of Lindsey, I am pretty sure Jen-Centric was no where to be found. I was 24/7 Mom2Lindsey. I am realizing that another one of my ADD strengths is my ability to hyperfocus and become completely devoted to one thing at a time. Hyper-focusing on your kids is also very normal and socially acceptable. Unfortunately, there is a downside to every ADD strength and the downside to this strength is that I ignore everything that is not involved in what I am hyper-focusing on. During Lindsey’s first 6 years I completely ignored my personal health and well-being in order to be supermom and do everything perfect (how did that work out?). When my daughter went off to Kindergarten in 2009 I was shocked at how unraveled I became. My entire mind, body and soul had had enough, and was screaming for me to pay attention. I had to stop pretending to be perfect and just be myself again.
Being almost 40 I am in the midst of another self-image makeover. I am trying to find the balance between taking care of myself and being the best mom/wife I can be. I have separated the two for the the beginning of Lindsey’s life, which wasn’t right. I can really identify with all those magnets and bumper stickers that say “balanced mom”. Maybe that should be my new screen name; balancedmom40…..
