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My daughter moves unabashedly through this world taking up as much space as she damn well pleases. I want to be like my 12-year-old daughter!

It’s not just that I’m “not a morning person.” Mornings hurt and I experience complex trauma. They make me feel fragile and vulnerable.

I will always be a parent, always the mom, our home will always be their home, but they’ve outgrown life here and that's my new normal.

Mothers are tired. We are just so, so tired. We are bone-crushingly practically-dead-from-exhaustion tired.

My gut never lets me down. I’m an empath raising an empath. Empaths are people who can absorb or intuit other people’s emotions.

Meg Boggs reached out to other mom bloggers to share their own postpartum bodies for her project This Is Postpartum. They did and the result is beautiful.

Yes, I was being a selfish mom, I told her. But that didn’t make me wrong. People are constantly telling me to sacrifice my wellbeing for my kids.

Metoo parenting is teaching my daughters that they have control of their body. They have a voice. There are now real consequences for those who abuse power.