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motherhood

  • What would you tell her?

    This was in my Facebook memories recently… 23 year old Katie, just eight weeks postpartum and eight years deep into disordered eating cycles. Pre-any sort of mental health treatment. (She got…

  • Being a Good Mom

    Just a reminder… Being a good mom looks like admitting you’re stumped and researching your way to solutions. Being a good mom sometimes looks like being brave enough to ask for…

  • Maybe She’s You Too

    POV: You are with a mom in her (wrecked) minivan (that doubles as a landfill) after drop off on Friday morning. There’s an unidentifiable smell (and when even was the last…

  • Shame Can’t Breed Where Vulnerability Exists

    I’ve been a working single mom, a working married mom, a stay at home mom, a work from home mom, an entrepreneur mom…⠀⠀None of it is easy. Every single experience had…

  • A “good enough” mom

    Earlier this year my therapist blew my mind with the idea of “the good enough mother”. The theory of “the good enough mother” was originally introduced by British pediatrician and psychoanalyst…

  • An Open Letter To The Mom in Doubt

    Dear fellow combat veteran, Yes, you, in the trenches, pressing on through the grenades and fire fights. I’m with you. I’ve been at this job for a little over seven years…

  • stay at home mom

    Stay-At-Home-Moms Don’t Exist

    Why in the actual world do they call us Stay-At-Home-Moms? I mean, Ok, I actually know. But, the last thing I do at home is “stay”. Every day I have moments…

  • 10 Lies About Motherhood

    Someone posed this “fill-in-the-blank” in one of my mom groups on Facebook the other day and the responses were too good not to share. Maybe they aren’t lies for EVERYONE, but…

  • From One to Two

    So, I had a baby three months ago. THREE MONTHS. I know everyone says that infancy goes by so fast – yadda yadda – but seriously. If you think it goes…