The Woman Inside Every Mother
Motherhood may change everything, but it shouldn’t erase you. A heart-to-heart on staying connected to your identity, passions, and peace while raising a family in a world that keeps asking for more. My mom didn’t plan to be a single mother in her 40s, just two months after giving birth to my youngest sister. No woman does. But life doesn’t wait for your permission to change. Sometimes, it just drops the plot twist like a TV show you weren’t ready to binge-watch. I was 14. Old enough to understand when things shifted, but too young to process the gravity of it all. My dad—who had been the pillar of our home, the financial engine, the man with all the answers—died. And just like that, our family flipped inside out. My mom, who’d built her life around him, became the captain of a ship in the middle of a storm she didn’t ask to sail. And let me tell you… she had no map, no compass—just a newborn in her arms and two kids watching her every move. She was born to be someone...