Who Is Holding Space For The Trauma in Becoming A Mom?

You are one of the forgotten sisters. No one wants to bring up the uncomfortable parts like feeling like a failure, grief after miscarriage, fatigue, hormone woes and altered self image after leaving a professional career to pick up Cheerios 3x a day. I get it. Few therapists are equipped to offer any real wellbeing support until you have some medical diagnosis. There is little attention to the stress, financial shifts and fear of mindlessly being labeled "High Risk" for 40 weeks just because you got pregnant a bit older, younger, single or less binary gender than the norm. Who is there in your life right now in an educated soul sister kind of way to coach you through a lost sense intimacy or when struggling with infertility? Maybe you felt injured during pregnancy and birthing or are being chronically dismissed with a MILLION QUESTIONS after major C section or hysterectomy surgery and expected to recover on your own? Chances are, without the right support, those pictures a decade from now will show you smiling but inside you'll always know you were going through internal hell. If you are sooo over suffering alone. Sign in and grab your first hug.