Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
When resting feels impossible because you keep remembering another task
You sit down and remember the uniform. You return to the couch and think of the school email. When nothing urgent seems…
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Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Identity, wellbeing, guilt, rest and making room for yourself in motherhood.
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Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
How to mentally disconnect from family responsibilities for a while
You can stop doing tasks and keep managing the household in your head. Mental disconnection needs more than free hands: it helps…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
When even your free time is full of things you need to remember
Forty minutes without the kids is not automatically forty minutes off. If the gap immediately fills with scheduling, buying what is missing,…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
What mental rest actually means when you are a mom
You can be lying down and still be on call. You can also be with your family and feel rested when someone…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Feeling like you are always available to someone since becoming a mom
No one has to be actively asking you for something for you to feel available. Sometimes it is enough to know you…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
When your kids keep calling for you even though another adult is right there
Sometimes the other adult is not absent at all. They are three feet away. The question still travels across the room to…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Feeling tired of hearing “Mom” all day — and guilty about it
A word you love can become exhausting when it also means water, help, conflict, boredom, questions, and urgency for hours. The overload…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Feeling like no one in the house can solve anything without asking you first
Someone else doing the task may not clear your head if they still need you to decide how, when, and with what.…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Needing to be alone after spending all day with your kids
After many hours of intense togetherness, sometimes you do not want another plan, another conversation, or even quiet company. You want to…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
How to ask for alone time without feeling like you are rejecting your family
Needing time alone and asking for it are different skills. If you wait until you are completely saturated, the request often comes…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
Is it normal to look forward to being alone at the end of the day?
You can love your family deeply and still watch the clock, waiting for the moment when nobody is talking to you, touching…
Motherhood, identity & wellbeing
When the best part of the day is the silence after the kids go to bed
Sometimes you do not want to accomplish anything after bedtime. You do not want to optimize the evening or even talk. You…