I recently read a book to my children, "We're going on a Bear Hunt" where a family searches to find a bear. On their journey they are met with various barriers and hardships in order to find their bear. Each time they face this barrier they remind each other that the only way to pass it and continue on is to go through the hardship.... and so it is with motherhood. We face many situations, some of which we would like to go around, or under or bypass entirely, but that's not how it works. We must go through the experience and in doing so we will grow and feel empowered by what we learn and how we react to the situation.