There’s something no one quite tells you before you become a mum: that while you’re busy raising your child, something else is quietly happening—you’re becoming someone new, too. Motherhood reshapes everything. Not just your sleep schedule or your sense of time, but your very sense of self. Somewhere in the middle of the nappies and […]
Motherhood is often described as a journey, a beautiful adventure filled with love, growth, and endless joy – But what about those moments when it feels like you’ve lost your way in the midst of this journey? When the demands of parenting overshadow your sense of self, leaving you feeling adrift in a sea of nappies, tantrums, sleepless nights and later, a taxi service? Being lost in motherhood is a common experience, yet it’s one that often goes unspoken. In this article, I will explore the complexities of this journey, and offer some guidance on how to navigate through the wilderness of motherhood to find your way back to yourself.
The Motherload is all the thinking and all the doing of all the things that seem to come with motherhood. The Motherload is none of those things you read about in your baby book or you Prima Baby Magazine (anyone else?), it’s nothing you could have especially been prepared for, and it’s not something that magically vanishes as your children grow up – if anything, it accelerates and becomes even more weighty.
Females are often hardwired to nurture, give advice, and at times judge. We are all human at the end of the day and we each have our flaws, and our preferred ways of doing things, but sometimes the advice we get, or maybe a comment we have overheard really gets to us.