Your Motherhood: How to Define It on Your Own Terms

About this episode

This episode explores how to define motherhood on your own terms amidst societal pressures and expectations.

Send us Fan Mail If motherhood feels empty, heavy, or just... off - but you can't explain why - this episode is for you. Your motherhood is not supposed to look like everyone else's. But nobody told you that. Instead, you absorbed a version of motherhood from culture, media, and the moms around you - and now you're living it, going through the motions, wondering why nothing feels quite right. You didn't lose yourself. You just never got the chance to decide what your motherhood actually looke...

People in this episode

Host: Melanie

Topics covered

• motherhood
• self-definition
• cultural expectations
• personal identity
• parenting challenges

Keywords

• motherhood
• identity
• parenting
• cultural norms
• self-discovery

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