Hello everyone and welcome. You’re listening to Super Power Mommas, and I am so excited to be with you today. Our topic today is embracing your true God-given values, and personal power. What a beautiful topic, really, isn’t it? And it’s so important that I have Safeera Sabdia with me. She is a beautiful person that I got to meet a couple of years ago. She’s a neuro-linguistic programming master practitioner, hypnosis, and a breakthrough shadow and relationship coach. And in her journey, she has gone through a lot of different things. And what I love that she has really zeroed in on through her own experience is to take a look at us as women, and moms, and how we move through life. Whether we are more embracing living up to other people’s expectations, or whether we are really living in our own God-given focus, and doing work from an empowered place. So this is a very important conversation, because as moms, we tend to pour ourselves out for everyone else, and we tend to go into the background. So I am so excited to let you meet Safeera.
Please welcome Safeera for being on the show today.
Hi Laura. Thank you for having me. I’m so excited to be here too.
Yes. And you’re from all the way around the world in Australia.
That’s right. Yeah.
Yeah. So this is really very exciting. But we met some time ago, in a group, a worldwide parenting coaching group that we were a member of. And I remember your gentle, beautiful voice, even back then when we got to speak together, you and I.
Oh wow, thank you so much Laura.
Yeah. So, to start our show, we always start with the same question, which is what is your superpower? So would you, and I actually ask it from the standpoint of a mama’s superpower, but explain to us what your superpower is.
You know, Laura, as a mom, I think I made every mistake imaginable. And what I did was learn from that. And what I learned is how to love, and accept my children for who they are. Not for who I want them to be, not for who the whole society expects them to be, but love and acceptance for who they are. I think our children are our greatest teachers. And through all the mistakes, I think I’ve learned through those.
That is just amazingly beautiful. I mean, you may call them mistakes, but honestly, they serve don’t they? As we journey through, I think as parents it becomes a real challenge for us to feel like we can do anything exactly right. We wake up in the morning intending to be the best for our children, and yet I love this acceptance and love that you have come to appreciate, and now share with so many. Our children are entrusted to us, but they really are their own person too, and a divine creation on their own, aren’t they?
Absolutely. Absolutely. And you know, loving and accepting them doesn’t mean that we’re not one of their moral compass. We guide them, but ultimately realize that they are their own people, and their decisions are their own as well. That’s been such a huge part of my parenting. And it’s helped me grow so much as a person, it’s almost as if you are entrusting God to take care of your children, and letting go of the control that we think that we have, leaving them in God’s hands when we love and accept them for who they are.
Very, very beautiful. Yeah. Because we think we have that control, but it doesn’t really belong to us, does it?
No. As much as we try. It doesn’t belong.
Yeah. And it’s true too that our expectations when we don’t come into an experience ready to be in wonder and awe, but we’re more, “Oh, am I doing the right thing?” That perfection type mindset that we tend to take on, can really block us from the joy of just experiencing the experience, and then allowing the lessons to come to us and being grateful for that in a way that shows our children also how to live life, really.
Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
This is beautiful, and I’m excited because we are going to be talking about embracing our true God-given values, and personal power, in such a way that it feels really good, like a good fit for all of us, so that we can move through this without being in struggle over it. Because expectation when not met is where our greatest disappointments come from. So if we can release the expectation, and instead live through intention, that’s really what will assist us in removing that perfectionism component. Would you agree?
Yes. Absolutely. Love that. Yeah. Yeah.
So I’m on Facebook at Safeera Sabdia Consulting, and also safeerasabdia.com.
Beautiful. Can you spell your name for us, because we’ll make sure that in the show notes.
Yes.
Yeah.
And that’s on Facebook and Instagram. You’re on Instagram?
And Instagram as well, yes, @CoachSafeera. Yeah.
So be sure to check her out. But we’re going to be right back, and we’re going to continue our conversation about embracing your true God-given values, and personal power with Safeera Sabdia.
Sorry, I still said it wrong, and we’ll be right back.
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