There’s a moment almost every mom has sometime between mid-November and mid-December… You’re standing in the kitchen, half-wrapping a gift, half-answering a text from your mom about Christmas Eve, half-listening to the baby fuss in the monitor and your partner walks in and says: “Just tell me what you need me to do.” And you freeze. Because if you could tell them, you would’ve. But all the mental load—the gifts, the schedules, the nap windows, the family expectations, the travel logistics,...

If yesterday’s email stirred something in you -- That little exhale, that lump in your throat, that sense of finally someone put words to it-- I want to talk directly to that part of you. Because the women who wrote back last night said things like: “I didn’t realize how much of myself I’ve lost until I read this.” “I want to feel like me again — not just function.” “I know this would help… I’m just scared to commit.” “I don’t even know what I’d do with free time anymore.” If that’s you, I...

There’s something almost every mom says to me at some point quietly, like it’s a confession: “I don’t really know who I am anymore.” Not in a dramatic, crisis-level way.More like a slow fade.A dimming.A quiet losing track of the things that once made you feel grounded and confident and… like yourself. Motherhood shifts your identity in ways you can’t fully prepare for.Research has shown this over and over (Nelson et al., 2014): becoming “Mom” doesn’t just add a role. It reshapes how the world...