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8 Damaging Myths for (New) Moms and Liberating Truths to Dispel Them (Part I)
postpartum, motherhood, emotional health Mara Eller postpartum, motherhood, emotional health Mara Eller

8 Damaging Myths for (New) Moms and Liberating Truths to Dispel Them (Part I)

(Myths 1-4)

We all pick up ideas about what it means to be a good mother either implicitly through culture and casual comments or explicitly through taught expectations, both well-meaning and less benevolent. And when our experience doesn’t match these expectations—either our own or those of others—we assume that the problem lies with us. We are not doing it right. We are defective in some way. We are not cut out for the task—the task that, by the way, all real women are naturally born to do effortlessly. Ergo, we must not be a good/real/godly woman.

Even if we don’t articulate these conclusions in words, they can swirl around in our hearts and poison our souls. . .

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