Therapy For Women

It’s not just you! You didn’t expect motherhood to be this hard — most people don’t! It is impossible to know in advance how motherhood will change your life. But it changes everything – your home, your relationships, your body, your finances, your sleep, your health, your hobbies. There probably isn’t a single thing in your life that hasn’t been altered since becoming a parent. That fact alone is a lot of change to move through. Many parts of motherhood can feel hard -even if you’ve waited for this time for years and are “grateful for every moment”.

In the early days of motherhood, it’s almost like nothing else can exist — it’s just your tiny baby and you. It’s all consuming, survival-based and that’s probably necessary. But as the newborn fog slowly clears and you start coming out on the other side of the baby stage, sometimes we need some help remembering (or discovering anew) what lights us up, who we are outside of motherhood and parenting and how we can integrate that back into our lives now a little bit at a time. It takes intention and some effort but it’s doable. As moms, we so clearly set the energy of the home for our children. A calm and happy mom is what’s truly meaningful to children.

Parenting is really hard and most parents are learning how to parent as they go — I call it building the plane as you are flying it! We try, we fumble, we try again, we hope we get it right and don’t crash. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t. Everybody finds at least some parts of parenting challenging! We have access to so much more information and education about parenting than people did in the past – and that’s great — but it can also feel really confusing or like you don’t know which “method” is right for your child and so you lose your confidence as a parent. The truth is this is really hard but you can do hard things!