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Aaaah this was such a nurturing, inspiring and eye-opening experience. Thank you so much for sharing this little ritual, I have been looking forward to doing this since you posted it and I could not be happier with having made the time to care for myself this way today. So grateful 💌

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Oh Julia, I cannot tell you how happy this makes me to read. I am so glad you made this precious time for yourself 🤍

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Happy birthday. This is a good reminder to celebrate ourselves as mothers. My 15 year old lad gave me a hug before bed time last night. I mean I did ask if he would but I'm going to take it as a win because he could have said no.

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Absolutely, because we certainly need celebrating 🎉

And we also have to take the small wins when we can, that’s so lovely! I bet you truly soaked in that hug

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Happy birthday to your daughter 🎉🎉 it sounds like you are learning so much through the wild journey of motherhood and taking it all in your stride! Your daughter is very lucky IMO ☺️☺️

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Gaaahh thanks so much lovely, that is so kind of you to say 🤍

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It will be my daughter’s second birthday in a few days and I am so looking forward to trying this ritual myself! Also, yes to always nurturing their naturally emerging personality traits however different they may be from our own personality. Seems banal but it’s not always everyone’s story ♥️

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Aw happy birth-day to you and your daughter (in a few days) I’d love to hear how this lands for you and I hope that you get some time to honour yourself too 🤍

Yes I completely agree with this! My daughter is very different from me and I adore that about her. She’s teaching me so much, like how to say what I mean and not people pease 🙈

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