Many of you wondering where Coffee Addict Mama came from, I was learning all there was to know about blogging and took a long break from the original platforms I had been sharing my life on. Instagram became extremely popular and I loved sharing photos without much to say. Each day I would post a picture of my coffee and when I discovered no real good communities on there featuring moms who loved drinking their favorite cup, I came up with the hashtag- #coffeeaddictmama was just that at the time.
When I first started the Coffee Addict Mama site I knew exactly what I wanted it to be but I didn’t quite know how to go about publishing it. I started my first mom blog back in 2010 and ever since I’ve been an avid blogger. I grew passionate about it when I realized that it wasn’t just therapeutic for me, but I felt a strong desire to create empowerment within the blogging communities.
The Story Behind Coffee Addict Mama
The Coffee Addict Mama name was officially established back in 2012 on Instagram. It first came about as a personal account and as time passed by it slowly developed into a whole new business account. After a year of creating the hashtag #coffeeaddictmama people started using it and it wasn’t just about me anymore. It became a name for women who love coffee, particularly moms and women who were just coffee lovers alike, living their daily chaotic life.
I come from a family of coffee drinkers and, so my real addiction to it began in my early 30’s. I was drawn to the aesthetics of the famous latte art, women sharing their Starbucks cups with their outfits and since I have a passion for photography, I wanted that lifestyle. The pretty nature of coffee was all I lived for. I’m still trying to learn how to barista at home, lol.
In 2010, I created a bloggers community featuring well over 300 lifestyle bloggers and shared all sorts of tips about blogging, graphics, tutorials and how to’s all on a FREE blogging platform; BLOGGER. The community was fierce. I teamed up with so many new bloggers with a background in website design, sponsorship and entrepreneurship. When I say it was fierce, it was incredibly insane how bloggers supported each other! I don’t see much of that empowerment anymore. But the whole reason why I created that little community was because the MOM BLOG COMMUNITY was entirely not what I envisioned it to be. The cattiness, belittling, rudeness and those who thought their blog was better than everyone else’s was just too much. I wanted nothing short of a community that was all about positivity and fearlessness and we did just that!!
Mama Needs More Coffee
I never thought that people would start using my hashtag but then I thought, I’m not the only COFFEE ADDICT MAMA out there. So why not develop a community of women all over again using this site here. It took me well over a year to snag the domain. Lucky for me it was not taken! Initially I had no idea where I was going with any of this. I’m a Gemini and have different ideas and thoughts daily. Being very structured I thought this whole site had to be ALL THINGS COFFEE. Until the day the light went off and I said, this site can be EVERYTHING with a little coffee thrown in.
At first I was going to use this site just to feature women in business, lifestyle bloggers, food bloggers, mom bloggers, which hosted a forum style community where you could log in and talk to each other but as I started blogging more and more, I decided to make it a community that can comment on posts, learn something new whether it’s related to cleaning, DIY’s, plants, blogging, branding yourself, etc. Now I just love sharing a bunch of coffee pics, quotes and sayings, and being your authentic you.
Coffee Thoughts
If I can be completely honest here, it took me several long years before realizing that I can post whatever I want without feeling guilt, shame or fear. Fear of being judged for sharing my true thoughts. Guilty for writing something no one else would be brave enough to. Shame for feeling what I naturally thought. You see people are going to judge, dislike and be against you whether they do it privately by not supporting you or leaving nasty comments on your posts. And I worked my way through all of that. It wasn’t easy. I stopped blogging, took many breaks, found myself deep within as I grew through all the pain, the negativity, the shadows of my loved ones. You have to create a shell that protects you from anyone who tries to destroy you.
With that being said, take the breaks you need to discover your true self. Start the blog that everyone doesn’t love. Be you. Do you. Don’t worry about anything except nurturing your desires. You deserve to be you.
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