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Anyone else feel the internal battle between wanting to spend as much time with your child as possible while also wanting to prove to yourself and the world that you can be a successful online coach + business owner? Because me, too. I truly believe you cannot understand what it feels like to be a mother before it actually happens (no matter how many other moms you know) And all the preparations I made for how to *come back* to coaching and mentoring post partum didn’t prepare me for the...
The things that I feel 'mom guilt' for are things that my partner wouldn't even consider. But I realized early in motherhood that mom guilt isn't guilt. It's shame... and that's what makes it so hard. I don't actually think going out to dinner with friends on a night my son is fussier than normal is something I shouldn't do. I don't actually believe that it's wrong to want my son to play independently for a few minutes while I check a quick client message. 'Mom guilt' feels so shitty because...
I trained until 40 weeks pregnant. Did all the hip mobility. Ate a silly amount of dates and drank SO much raspberry leaf tea. Gained the 'right amount' of weight. ... and STILL had labor complications, a baby stuck in my pelvis that had to be delivered with forceps, an episiotomy and prolapse issues. That was just how things went, and it wasn't within my control. But consider this... What if I'd had an easy labor and delivery, and decided to share that it was because I'd trained until 40...