HeyJaredMother & Matriarch
For the women holding it all together 🤍 Reflections on motherhood, meaning and the messy middle between burnout and balance.
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When Nothing Can Give, Something Surprising Can. (opens the original)
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What do you do when every piece of advice starts with “do less”... but doing less isn’t actually an option?We’re told to slow down, do less, listen to ourselves and follow our intuition. And whilst I agree with every one of those things, I also know what it’s like to look at a diary and think…“Tell me which bit I’m supposed to remove.”Because there simply isn’t an obvious answer.The children sti
Burnout Isn’t Your Fault. But It Isn’t Random Either. (opens the original)
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One of the biggest misconceptions about burnout is that it happens suddenly.We tend to imagine one particularly stressful week, a difficult season at work, a family crisis, or one final demand that pushes someone past their limit. There is often a moment when everything becomes impossible to ignore, but that moment is rarely where burnout begins.Burnout builds over time. It grows through the responsibilities we keep absorbing, the needs we keep pushing aside, the pressure we place on ourselves a
Which parts of your life have only been functioning because you're overcompensating? (opens the original)
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Have you ever noticed that the moment you start making yourself more of a priority, life seems to get harder instead of easier?We’re often told that growth happens outside our comfort zones. We celebrate making positive changes while encouraging people to set boundaries, make time for themselves, and finally start working towards the life they want.But we don’t talk enough about what happens next.Because there is this awkward stage in the middle where your old way of living no longer fits, but y
When did "I had a hard day" become "I’m a bad mum"? (opens the original)
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Have you ever noticed how quickly we turn a difficult moment into a judgment about ourselves?A manic morning becomes, “I’m such a bad mum.” A forgotten PE kit becomes, “I’m useless.” A week where everyone ends up eating chicken nuggets and watching more television than we’d planned somehow leaves us questioning whether we’re cut out for working mum life at all.I catch myself doing it too. And the more I’ve paid attention, the more I realised it wasn’t just the occasi
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