Category: Becoming a Mother
If you’re navigating the emotional terrain of new motherhood, this space is for you. These articles are here to remind you that you’re not alone – and that your inner wisdom is worth listening to.
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How to Recognize and Understand Matrescence
A complete guide to the emotional transformation of becoming a mother (matrescence). There’s a moment — sometimes quiet, sometimes chaotic — when a woman realises she’s not just raising a child. She’s being reshaped from the inside out. Her identity is shifting. Her priorities have changed. Her emotions feel unrecognisable.And perhaps for the first time,… Read more
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How to Become the Mother You Always Needed
There’s a quiet ache that many mothers carry.It whispers not only in how we parent our children — but in how we wish we had been parented ourselves. Maybe your mother tried her best, but emotional warmth wasn’t something she knew how to offer. Maybe your childhood was filled with chaos, silence, or unmet needs.… Read more
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How to Avoid Parenting Mistakes You Fear Most
Parenting with intention, grace, and trust in your own intuition. Parenthood comes with a unique kind of fear. It’s not just about keeping your child safe; it’s about shaping a little human in a way that feels both loving and “good enough.” For many mothers, the fear of making mistakes — or worse, repeating painful… Read more
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How to Embrace the Messy Journey of Motherhood
Finding beauty in the chaos and grace for yourself along the way. Motherhood is often painted in soft pastel hues — smiling babies, glowing mothers, neatly curated homes. But the truth? It’s rarely neat. It’s a beautiful, wild, and deeply human journey — one that challenges every part of who you are. It’s not meant… Read more
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Rewriting the Script: A New Approach to Motherhood
There comes a moment in every mother’s life — often sometime after the baby is born and the dust has barely begun to settle — when the old scripts stop making sense. The ones that told you to “sleep when the baby sleeps,”to “enjoy every moment,”to “be grateful — at least you have a healthy… Read more
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How to Rebuild Yourself While Caring for Your Baby
The quiet, sacred work of becoming whole again. There’s a version of early motherhood no one talks about. The one where you’re showing up every day — feeding, rocking, changing, soothing — but inside, you feel like you’re slowly crumbling. Or maybe not crumbling, exactly. Just… disappearing. You catch a glimpse of yourself in the… Read more
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How to Navigate the Cost of Healing in Motherhood
A gentle guide for the cycle-breaking mother. There is a kind of mother who doesn’t just raise her children — she also rewrites everything she inherited. The patterns.The silence.The self-sacrifice.The ways love was confused with control. She is the first to pause before yelling.The first to apologise to a child.The first to ask herself, Is… Read more
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The Hidden Power of Mother’s Intuition: Why You’re the Best Expert for Your Baby
You’re standing in the hallway. The baby’s been crying for 40 minutes, your partner’s asleep, and your mother-in-law’s voice is echoing in your head: “That baby just needs a bottle.” You tried bouncing. Feeding. White noise. Googled. Searched Reddit. Now your chest is tight and the lump in your throat threatens to crack your confidence… Read more
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Small Acts of Self-Rescue: How to Find Yourself Again in 5 Minutes a Day
There’s a quiet unraveling that happens to many mothers in the early months and years. It doesn’t always announce itself. It creeps in slowly, in the space between back-to-back feeds, missed showers, and never-ending lists. And at some point, you realise you’ve started referring to yourself in third person—”Mama needs to eat”—because that’s the only… Read more
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How to Grieve Your Pre-Motherhood Self
No one really prepares you for the quiet ache that comes with becoming a mother. While the world expects you to glow, bond, and bloom, you might find yourself mourning a version of you that no longer exists. And that’s okay. It’s okay to miss your freedom, your sleep, your spontaneity, your career, your body—your… Read more