BY ALICE DAWSON
ABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Wellness
Mom burnout does not always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like standing in the kitchen after everyone is finally asleep and realizing you do not want anyone to ask you for one more thing. Sometimes it is snapping over something small, feeling strangely numb during moments you expected to enjoy, or fantasizing about having an entire day where nobody needs you.
BY ALICE DAWSONABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Sleep advice can feel almost insulting when you have children. Go to bed at the same time every night. Keep your bedroom quiet. Avoid interruptions. Get seven to nine hours.
BY ENZO HODGEABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Stress and anxiety can feel remarkably similar. Both can make your heart race, your muscles tense, your thoughts speed up, and sleep suddenly become much harder. Both can leave you irritable, distracted, exhausted, or convinced that you have approximately fourteen urgent problems to solve at once.
BY PAUL HARRISABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Exercise changes when you become a mom. Before kids, you might have planned workouts around your preferences. After kids, you may find yourself calculating naps, childcare, work schedules, feeding times, school pickups, illnesses, and whether you have enough energy left to put on workout clothes.
BY LAURYN BONDABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Motherhood can be deeply rewarding and relentlessly demanding at the same time. A normal day can involve feeding people, remembering appointments, answering work messages, finding missing shoes, managing emotions, cleaning something that was clean ten minutes ago, and making dozens of tiny decisions nobody else even notices.
BY BRADY RIVERAABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
Taking a break sounds easy until you actually try to do it. You sit down, but your mind immediately starts listing everything you could be doing instead. There is laundry waiting, an email unanswered, a kitchen that needs cleaning, a child who might need something, or a work task you could technically finish now and make tomorrow easier.
BY ASPEN CANOABOUT 1 MONTH AGO
