Favorite By Tricia Srinivasan Tricia Srinivasan is a Los Angeles-based mom (to a teenager and a toddler), and when she has the time, she loves to take care of herself at the gym and the salon and spend time with her family with bike rides
Favorite By Aga Grabowski As moms, this feeling of guilt runs through our blood the moment we bring our baby home from the hospital (and as women, this can start when we’re trying to conceive, we’ll save that important conversation for the next article). When
Favorite By Alex Auerbach, Ph.D. Mothers arguably have one of the most grueling, high-stress jobs on the planet; a job with a lot of expectations, judgment, and onlooker opinion and absolutely no manual. The role of a mother requires the skill to pivot quickly, make
Favorite By Savannah Rucker, LPC We hear the word trauma thrown around a lot – especially after the last several years. But what is trauma? What does it look like in our everyday lives? And how can we begin to heal? As parents, the last
Favorite By Anna (Interview) This is a different story, a side to being a mother that you don’t always hear. I’m a birth mother. I placed my daughter for adoption, but I’m still a mother. Giving her a life I dreamed of for myself was
Favorite By Rebekah Edholm Last year, in the midst of a pandemic, we moved from overseas back to the U.S. Looking back, I can see that this was the starting point to what I now recognize as burnout. Let me start by explaining our situation.
Favorite By Anonymous I look at my one year old daughter standing in front of the TV while I’m on mute. It’s 7 AM and I’m on a call for work. Hours pass and the calls keep coming and my daughter is still there, in
Favorite By Kathleen Walters I was so excited to be pregnant. My husband and I had been married four years, just enough time to be “prepared” for a first child. With a degree in Child Development and years of teaching preschoolers, I had every confidence
Favorite By Megan Warren The Struggle Those first moments were so beautiful – the relief of birth, the feeling of my child, part of my deepest heart placed wetly on my chest, swollen with the wonder and disbelief of the miracle I created. Reality
Favorite By Alisa Gonzalez When the “Me Too” movement started, I was brought to tears at the bravery of these women speaking publicly and loudly to their abusers, saying that enough was finally enough. This has created a new world, one where we can raise
