Mommy guilt is a common feeling. The mindset goes something like: “How could I possibly take precious time away from my child to work on myself?’.  Believe me…I have been there and have thought these same things once I became a mother in 2007.

I will never forget the first time I dropped my son off in daycare at the gym to try and get a workout in for myself. I was anxious to get back to my workouts and start feeling like myself again, but thoughts of “they won’t know how to care for him as I do” and “I am abandoning my son” plagued me the entire time I worked out. I can remember leaving the fitness center many times throughout the hour to sneak a peek into babysitting to check on him.

Once you become a parent, there certainly is a natural tendency/desire to forsake your own needs for those of this new little being you have just brought into the world. It’s a very humbling and fulfilling experience raising children, but...