Moms Deserve to Feel Sexy Too
Raise your hand if you’re a mom and you have been shamed for what you are wearing. Have you been afraid to sport a swimsuit that shows some skin because society tells us that “mom bods” are less than ideal? Do you wear clothes that suck you in or hide your body because we aren’t taught how to love ourselves in our forever long postpartum era? If you’re a mom and you’re reading this, I am here to remind you that you deserve to feel sexy.
Sexy. Sometimes, that word can feel foreign to us after becoming moms. Our minds shift to caring for everyone around us 24/7. Our identity shifts, even multiple kids later! Sometimes, the effort it takes to feel desirable feels like a task beyond our reach. I get it. It’s difficult to put ourselves first. It is a challenge to overcome the mental blocks between our minds and our identity outside of motherhood. All of that to say, you deserve to genuinely have moments of pure love and pride for yourself. You deserve to feel and show off your sexuality.
What does it mean to feel sexy? It goes deeper than wanting to have sex or wanting sex. It’s an entire mindset that embodies confidence, sensuality, and self acceptance. It’s walking into a room and believing everyone else around you can feel the power radiating off of you. It’s having the ability to feel extra joy and let go of insecurities, worries, and woes to have a fun time. It’s having energy and excitement for life at the moment. It’s feeling like you’re more than enough in the situation. Feeling sexy is looking at yourself with an intense feeling of love for yourself and feeling worthy of pleasure, no matter what that means to you. It’s euphoric and entrancing.
You’ve had kids (or adopted, or foster, or take care of fur babies!) but you still get to feel yourself! You’re a whole incredible person. Embracing your sexuality is a mind shift, something you get to control. It’s an active choice of choosing yourself. Moms, you deserve to show up for yourself. You deserve to want yourself to the highest degree! No matter what stage of motherhood or life you’re in, you deserve to take time to feel your best self. It doesn’t even matter if feeling sexy is just for you or for a partner.
Wear tight jeans and a crop top. Stand tall in your sexy bikini that doesn’t cover much! Twirl in the dress that makes you genuinely smile because you feel so fucking pretty. Embrace your body with no clothes on because you are HOT! Buy the lingerie you’ve had in your Saved for Later tabs. Accept your favorite parts of you. Smile, laugh, and live in the moment like you are your favorite person to create memories with. You deserve that. You deserve to be romanticized and desired by yourself.
So again… to the moms reading this, here is your reminder that you deserve to feel sexy. Don’t let society tell you to make yourself less just because you have a family. You are magic, bold, and eccentric.
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-Written by Rebecca Kochanek, Blogger.
