Motherhood Insights

We joke about how tired moms are. We put it on mugs. We bond over it at school pickups. We treat chronic exhaustion as the universal entry fee to motherhood and we have somehow convinced ourselves that this is fine.

Self care has been flattened into a marketing category. Face masks. Bubble baths. Candles. A glass of wine after the kids are in bed. These things are fine. They are not the problem. The problem is that we have collectively confused self care with self soothing, and in doing so, we have handed mothers a completely inadequate toolkit for something that is actually much more serious. Real self care is not what you do after you are depleted. It is the ongoing practice of not dep

Mom guilt is not a sign that you care too much. It is a sign that you were handed an impossible standard and told to internalize it so thoroughly that you would police yourself.

The fitness industry was not built for mothers. It was built for people with consistent schedules, access to childcare, disposable income, and the kind of uninterrupted time that evaporates the moment you have a baby.