Tag: new motherhood
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5 Reasons Intuitive Parents Might Need Outside Advice
One of the most empowering things a mother can do is trust her intuition.To follow the quiet nudges.To read her baby’s cues.To tune out the noise and hear the knowing voice within. But here’s the honest truth: even the most attuned, intuitive parent sometimes needs guidance.Not because they’re failing. Not because they’ve lost their way.But… Read more
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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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How to Remind Yourself: Motherhood is Tough, You’re Not Wrong
You’ve read the books. You’ve tried the checklists. You’ve followed the sleep guides, the feeding routines, and the expert reels. And yet, at 3am, when your baby is still crying, your body aches from tiredness, and your heart feels like it’s being pulled in too many directions — you wonder: Why does this feel so… Read more