Recapping My Top 5 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2020

When I started my blog in March 2020, I had no idea of where it would take me. I started because I was eight weeks postpartum and needed an outlet due to the pandemic. Who knew I would be recapping my popular blog posts of the year.

Over the months, I’m humbled and amazed by just how many people have come to view my journey; they express similarity in their stories, and I have built a community.

You always hear crazy things about bloggers, but it’s been one of the best things I have done for myself in 2020. 

Blogging when you are a solo parent during the day is a challenge. I have an infant and a puppy. Both are a handful that doesn’t leave me much time. But this blog was something that I told myself I had to do and stick with, and I’m so happy that I have done it. 

This post will wrap up the 2020 year; I wanted to share the top five blog posts that helped me, taught me, and shaped this platform for 2021 and beyond. 

Popular Blog Posts #1 – My Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Journey as a New Mother

This post was the first post where I got candid about my experience after giving birth to my son. I didn’t know how this topic would receive this post, but I knew I had to tell someone. 

I talked to my doctor and doula about it, but I needed something more permanent and blogging about it was the only way to get it out and be at peace.

There has been so much love and response to this post that I felt like I started building a community. Hearing from women and men who are currently going through or have gone through this experience was what I needed. Click here to read this post. This is by far the most popular blog post for 2020.

10 Things To Enhance Your Happiness

When you are home all day and only talk to a baby and puppy when your husband isn’t around can get you kind of down. I came up with this after deciding that I wanted to control my feelings as I recovered from my postpartum. 

I’d returned to work from six-month maternity leave and was very anxious about how to balance everything. I took it day by day and was able to find the joy again that I thought I was missing. 

Sometimes we get so caught up that we forget to take a step back and keep it simple with the little things. That was me. This post allowed me to share the joy I found, and in doing so, everyone discovered their happiness. You can read this post by clicking here.

8 Tips To Stay Motivated While remote Working

Man, when I tell you. I wrote this when I was at the point of throwing in the towel and leaving the workforce. Ya, girl was going through it.

I wrote this post when I started to transition from blogging as a hobby to making it a career. 

I knew if I was going to make the shift, then I would be working from home for at least the near future, so I needed to develop some ways of getting and staying motivated, which is what I did.

Even now, I still use everything from this post today, which has allowed me to blog at the consistent rate that I am now, and I’m forever grateful for it. Check out the gems I dropped in this post here.

How to Balance Your Career and Home Life

This post was much later in my journey after I got to the point where I had figured out how to do it. Of course, there are days and weeks where I don’t get it right, but this post allows me to provide the framework I need to succeed. 

Being a Navy man and an Entrepreneur woman’s daughter, you learn about career and home life balance. 

I take real pride in having come up with ways to do this to have some peace for myself and my family, and it has been a humbling and great experience. If this is you, then you have to read this post now by clicking here.

Popular Blog Posts # 5 – 11 Quick Tips to Add Hours to Your Day

Delegation! For a while, I ran from it. I have always been the type of person that handles everything in the family. I can honestly say that this was the first time I knew I couldn’t do it all.

I’m a solo parent for 12+ hours a day, five days a week; there is no way that I would have been able to do anything if I didn’t get help. 

It was hard for me, but now that I am on the other side of it, I realize that it made me a better person. To see my actual growth, read this timeless post here.

I still get the chills thinking about the fact that I have been blogging for nine whole months. As I come up on my one year, I am so excited to see where the blog will go in the future. All of the great things I will continue to learn about myself to help others. 

Happy New Year’s Eve 2020, and I can’t wait to see you in 2021 for bigger and more exciting things to come. Thank you for making these five posts the most popular blog posts on the site.