From the outside looking in, I had checked all the boxes. But the question that started buzzing underneath was: “Were these even my boxes to check?

But walking the trail today, creation itself seemed to whisper something simpler. You don’t have to control the forest for it to flourish. And maybe motherhood works the same way.

It's said that human beings are wired for belonging and significance. When that sense of significance feels threatened, we move toward control — not always consciously.

It’s not a personal failure. It’s a biological mismatch. We are biologically and psychologically built to have children — but not culturally structured and supported for parenthood.

In practice, healthy parenting doesn’t always look like a perfectly regulated response in the moment. Sometimes it looks like coming back later — when everyone’s nervous system has settled…

I wasn’t just leaving a store. I was beginning to mourn a season of my life that has very clearly passed. There will be no more “Mommy’s Number One Fan” onesies. No more tiny jeans…

Often find ourselves impulsively chasing ideals, meeting social norms, or even pushing back against them, only to pause one weekend and realize we don’t remember when or how we signed up for all of this.

Some sociologists have actually referred to early motherhood as a period of role engulfment — when one identity eclipses others, sometimes unintentionally…

Research shows that over half of mothers, according to a 2023 Pew Research study—say they regularly feel like they’re not doing enough for their children.

Have you ever laughed at a meme, maybe liked it, but stopped short of resharing it? Not because it wasn’t funny — but because you started to wonder what your followers might think.

Returning to work after motherhood can awaken a deep and often unspoken tension — between career and calling, worth and guilt, identity and expectation.

Before motherhood, I had a life. I had identity. A college degree, a career, marriage, a house, and disposable income. It all looked pretty shiny. But when we began talking about having kids…

Before I was a mother, I thought I knew who I was. I thought identity was something you could define - career, relationships, beliefs. Then I became a mom…