Doing It All: Stop Over-Functioning and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be Paperback - 2024

In Doing It All, Dr. Whitney Casares, author, pediatrician, and mother of two, shares the step-by-step plan she developed as a modern working mom to help her stop over-functioning at work and home, stop blaming herself for everything that went wrong, and start living a balanced and intentional life. Today's working moms are burned out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of motherhood, work, household management, and a million-and-one everyday tasks, chores, and responsibilities, they truly are doing it all--but getting nowhere. They think they're out of options--but they're wrong.

Dr. Whitney tried to do it all for years, until one particularly bad week brought her to her knees, and then, to a revelation: It wasn't her that was broken, it was her system. She needed a new system, a plan of action that would look squarely at all the common problems of working mom life--over-scheduling, inequitable partnerships, lack of boundaries, lack of support--, recognize the social and cultural causes behind them, and give her the tools and structure she needed to tackle the chaos, find her work-life balance, and start living a life that worked for her. In Doing It All, she shares that system with you, a system that will help you prioritize what really matters and where everything--even laundry--has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority.

Doing It All features Dr. Whitney's complete step-by-step plan to achieving your Centered Life--that is, a life centered on you--, as well as over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that aligns with your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality.
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary "have-tos" in your life quickly and efficiently.
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner.
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention.
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful--without giving away too much of yourself.
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest.
• And more!