Motherhood changes you. Not in a way that needs fixing, and not in a way you should rush to recover from.

In this episode, I talk about the impossible standards placed on mothers today, the exhaustion we’re expected to normalize, and the quiet judgment that shows up when a woman copes instead of being cared for. I share a moment from my own marriage, how tiredness is often treated as a personal flaw rather than a signal, and what it means when no one asks why a mother is struggling, only how to make her stop.

We explore the loss of communal motherhood, the pressure to “do it all” simply because we can, and the truth that capability is not the same as support. This is a conversation about grief, identity, and permission. Permission to be changed. Permission to need more. Permission to stop pretending that this version of motherhood is natural or sustainable.

You’re not failing. You’re responding to a system that was never designed to hold you.

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