3 Small Reset Changes That Bring Me Peace in a Busy Season

If you’re like me, a mom who is chauffeuring kids, managing a home, working, keeping the schedules, remembering every little detail, and somehow still trying to hold yourself together, you need to hear this: you aren’t alone.

This season of life is full. Beautiful, yes. But also heavy, loud, chaotic, and stretched thin. And lately, I’ve been hearing the same question from so many women:

“How do I reset when I don’t actually have time for myself?”

If that’s you, take a breath. You don’t need an entire morning routine or a silent retreat in the mountains. You just need small moments — the kind you can actually fit into a mom’s real life.

These three small resets have been helping me feel more steady in a season where everything feels urgent.

1. A Grounding Moment in the Morning

Not a whole hour. Not a rigid routine.
Just one grounding moment.

For me, that looks like reading my Bible, listening to a short podcast, or simply sitting with my coffee before the noise starts. It’s less about the activity and more about the shift — reminding myself who I am before the world asks me to be everything else.

This moment tells my nervous system:
We’re starting from peace today.

2. Finding One Tiny Moment That’s Actually Mine

Some days, the only time I get is thirty seconds.
Yes… thirty.

But I’ve learned something: 30 seconds of stillness is better than zero.

Sometimes I literally hide in my closet, take a breath, and just let myself exist without solving anything. No multitasking, no thinking through the next twelve things, no pressure.

Just a human moment.

It sounds small, but when you haven’t had a moment to yourself in a while, it feels like oxygen.

3. Letting Go of One Expectation I Don’t Need to Carry

This one has been the real game changer.

Every day, I ask myself:
“What expectation am I carrying that I don’t actually need to?”

It might be a chore, a standard I put on myself, a belief about what a ‘good mom’ should do, or some invisible pressure I’ve been holding onto without meaning to.

Letting go of just one thing creates space — space to breathe, to be present, to feel like myself again.

Because sometimes the reset isn’t adding something new… it’s releasing something that was never meant to be yours.

Small Steps Count Too

These aren’t big changes. They aren’t dramatic. They won’t magically fix everything overnight.

But they help me feel human again — grounded, steady, and a little more like myself in a really full season of life.

And if your life is full, you deserve to feel steady in it too.

Take the moment.
Release the expectation.
Let yourself breathe.

You’re not alone in this, friend. 🤍

What’s one expectation you’re letting go of this week?