Natasha

There are books I couldn’t finish years ago that now feel like they were written for the version of me I’ve now become. And that’s the quiet magic of timing.

People with low self-esteem will do egregious shit and then get upset you didn’t want to have a roundtable with them about it. Once I noticed this pattern, I truly tightened up because it’s very easy to extend enablement disguised as compassion where there should be a boundary.

Your success as a mother isn’t measured by how quickly you can erase motherhood from your body, nor is it measured by how clean your kitchen counters can stay, how much your house doesn’t look like children live there, how quickly you can get back to “performing” in your career, how much your relationships don’t change, how quickly you can pretend... See more