How do I stay connected to my own purpose while raising a family?

There's a myth that parenting means setting yourself aside until your children are grown. Rabia teaches something different: her devotion deepened everything—how she loved, served, and showed up. Your purpose and your parenting aren't competing forces if you understand them rightly. They're the same practice. When you tend to what actually matters to you—whether that's creating, healing, learning, building—you're not taking from your children. You're showing them what a full life looks like. You're teaching them that adults have inner lives, that meaning matters, that you don't disappear into the role of parent. The hard part is protecting that thread—the one thing that reminds you who you are when you're covered in dishes and exhaustion. It might be an hour a week. It might be a conversation. It might be a practice no one else needs to understand. But your children need to see you as someone devoted to something beyond them. That's not selfish. That's the most important inheritance you can leave.