How to Create Balance as a Mom
Balance is one of those words that gets used constantly in conversations about motherhood, and almost nobody stops to question what it actually means. The image most people have of balance is equal weight on both sides of a scale, career and family, self and children, work and rest, all held in perfect, stable equilibrium. […]
Working Mom Stress
You are doing two full-time jobs. One of them is the job you get paid for. The other one is raising children, managing a household, and being everything to everyone, and that one does not come with a salary, a lunch break, or a performance review that tells you you are doing okay. Working mom […]
Stay-at-Home Mom Burnout
Here is the thing nobody prepares you for about being a stay-at-home mom: you can love your life and still be completely burned out by it. Those two things exist at the same time, and the fact that they do is one of the most confusing and lonely parts of stay-at-home motherhood. You chose this. […]
Mom Burnout Signs & Recovery
Burnout is not just being tired. Every mom is tired. Burnout is what happens when tired becomes the baseline, when you have been giving more than you have for so long that the reserves are genuinely empty, and when the things that used to matter to you, including your own children, start to feel like […]
How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed as a Mom
Everyone tells overwhelmed moms to take a bubble bath. Put their phone down. Practice self-care. And if you are reading this, you already know how useful that advice is when you have not slept properly in two years and your to-do list does not end. Feeling overwhelmed as a mom is not a sign that […]
Why Motherhood Feels So Hard
You love your kids. That is not the question. The question is why, if you love them this much, does this feel so relentlessly hard? Why are you so tired all the time? Why do you snap at them over small things and then feel terrible? Why does a simple Tuesday feel like something you […]
The Mental Load in Motherhood Explained
You finished the dishes. You replied to the school email. You remembered to reschedule the dentist appointment, ordered more wipes, and mentally flagged that the car registration is due next month. You did all of that before 9am. And nobody noticed, because nobody was supposed to notice. That is exactly the problem. The mental load […]