You are experiencing one of the most common and least talked about transitions in a woman's life: the quiet erasure of self that happens when you pour everything you have into everyone else. The good news is that she is not gone. She is waiting. Here is how to find your way back.

We have decided that mom burnout is just what motherhood feels like. We laugh about it. We bond over it. We wear the exhaustion like a badge of honor that proves how much we love our kids. And in doing so, we have normalized something that is actually a genuine mental health crisis.