HeyJaredI Mean Honestly
I write essays to help you create a life of vitality so you can live, work, create, and nurture with clarity in the margins of motherhood. WFH homeschool mom building a writing business out loud, pursuing health, creativity, and curiosity.
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I’m Obsessed With Women’s Stories (opens the original)
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The Missing Curriculum of Motherhood (opens the original)
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Wonderful Ways We Lose Ourselves (opens the original)
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More often than not, women that’ve just had a baby, comes to my classes or support group saying variations of the same thing: I feel like I’m losing myself.I usually affirm the sentiment and say, “you probably are, but that’s ok.”I think society breeds this myth that we’re supposed to know who we are at all times and be anchored into that person from the onset of adulthood. That’s a lot of pressure. I just turned 40 and went through 3 years of the dread of becoming yet another more improved vers
Stop Spiraling, Start Tinkering (opens the original)
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I have an absolutely ridiculous amount of interest in the human brain, more specifically the female brain after the body that it inhabits becomes pregnant and gives birth.So many changes occur within the body, and the brain is no different, yet we accept one and reject the other.We accept that the body physiologically changes. we know our bellies will grow, hips loosen, our skin stretches, we know and prepare fervently for all of these changes. People are buying body butters and seeing the chiro
And Then She Was 40... (opens the original)
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Yesterday, I woke up with my arms and heart abundantly full.On one side, was my sleepy and almost as tall as me 11-year-old boy and the other side cradled my very inquisitive 5.5-year-old asking me what my favorite number was going to be. I said it was 27 like always, but he urged me to pick 40. “Because you’re 40 today, Mama.”. I am 40 years old today. 4 decades. 40 times around the sun. I imagined that this time was far off it felt like some distant land that I would one day venture too, but n
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