About me
When I became a mother, I gave myself entirely. With two small daughters, in a new city, without a support network and never enough time, I went into survival mode. I woke up and went to bed exhausted, losing myself in the process.
At some point I knew I couldn’t keep going like that. I needed to stop, to put myself first again, even just for a few days. So I booked my first retreat. For the first time in a long time, I sat in silence and simply breathed.
In that moment, I remembered a quote from Brené Brown: "Mind the gap between who you are and who you want to be."And that was exactly what I was doing there — seeing myself again, reclaiming myself, allowing myself to be morethan just the urgency of everyday life.
Suddenly, everything made sense to me. Because if there is a gap betweenwho we are and who we want to be, perhaps one of the most overlooked is the one mothers experience.
Who takes care of those who care?
Who remembers the woman behind motherhood?
That was when I understood: we need to mind those who are rarely minded.
We need to take care of those who always care.
We need to Mind the Mom.