On this week’s episode of the Single Mom Tribe, we take it back to where it all began, catching up with our Co-Founder, Natalie Wainwright, reminding ourselves what inspired us to start this project. Reflecting about how our lives have changed over the past year, especially during this Universal pause brought on by the global outbreak of COVID-19, forcing us all to slowdown and do some deep, personal introspection.

Natalie is single-mother of two, a Tenant Representative in Commercial Real Estate within the Las Vegas Market, and she has been dominating each minute of every day for years. So this lapse in time and space has really allowed her life to slow down momentarily, and it has actually changed how she sees herself, in adapting to this “new normal” additional strengths she hadn’t previously acknowledged have emerged.

Today she’s here to share with us some of her greatest advice on self-doubt, negative self-talk, fear-based beliefs, self-love, dating, a warning regarding jumping from one relationship to the next and introducing your child(ren) to your suitors too soon, loneliness, the pros and cons of social media, and the dangers of the comparison spiral.

In her own search for solutions to sabotaging self-talk, her brother lovingly reminded her, that when you look for a solution, you’re going to find it, and on the flipside, when you’re looking for a problem, you’ll be sure to find that too, it’s all about your perspective. So it is important to choose the path that serves the best version of yourself. She reminds us that it’s ok to be ‘not ok,’ but it is even more important to love yourself (and your child(ren)) enough to do the work that it takes to get through the darkness and return to the light.

Asking the hard questions that come in moments of self-doubt… Why me? Why this? Why now? Something has to give… Those questions don’t make you a victim, but they allow you the opportunity to sit with your emotions that surround certain circumstances in your life and give you the ability to work through them in healthy manners, so that they don’t show up in other negative ways in your life.

Natalie gently reminds us that even when we do the work and get to a place where you love yourself despite your flaws, there will still be bad days, and moments when you just feel broken. We are human, but don’t be too hard on yourself, release the judgement, allow yourself to feel the frustrations, and as it passes, build yourself back up again; your child(ren) are learning by your direct example.

Natalie continues to share her story because she doesn’t want other women to feel alone and unsupported on this journey, she prompts us to love ourselves even in the awareness of our drastic flaws, while allowing ourselves to step out from behind our shadows and shine, because we don’t have to be perfect to be seen!

To connect with Natalie - You can find her on both Twitter and Instagram @Natalie_CRE310X