My Story
As a new mom, I was blown away by the experience of raising a child. Life became thrilling —colored with highs and lows— but mostly joy. I felt competent and open to what my baby had to teach me. As time went on and I had more kids (and more highs and lows) I felt beat down with the pressure of it all. A voracious consumer of parenting books and podcasts, I was determined to get it right. But the harder I tried to measure myself to these rules, the bigger my frustrations became.
Through learning to validate my own emotions, I discovered I was not in fact a failure (or a lab result) but a human being!
And that was so freeing. Somehow in all my focus to help my children feel seen I hadn't realized how much I needed that, too.
My hope with publishing My Mom Has Feelings Too is to restore some balance to the beautiful mother-child relationship. And shift a culture of superhuman parenting toward compassion, joy, and all the feelings in between.
I hope you will enjoy it, with all my heart!
K.D.