Hi Lady! In this episode, I talk (at length!) about the idea of losing yourself in motherhood or not feeling like yourself after baby. I share how many hours of consecutive sleep I've found I need bare minimum in order to not feel like a zombie. But then I ask you to consider the question: what does it mean to you to 'lose yourself' or 'not feel like yourself' during postpartum?

The three themes that have emerged at different times, sometimes all at once, over my various postpartums are:

-being needed all*the*time

-fear of failing my child or children, failing to meet their needs, "ruining" them by not choosing the right parenting technique, etc.

-being unable to do the things I once enjoyed, either due to lack of time or lack of energy/creativity

I close with three specific things you can do to feel more like yourself, to regain your sense of self in motherhood.

Links to the resources I mentioned in this episode, including Emily Stimpson Chapman's Substack essay, Leah Libresco Sargeant's book, and Emily Wilson Hussem's book, will be in the blogpost for this episode at postpartumonpurpose.com/blog.

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