19- How to Feel Like Yourself Again After Motherhood

Send us Fan MailDid you lose yourself in motherhood and wonder if you'll ever find her again? Do you ever scroll past an old photo of yourself and feel that quiet ache? The version of you that was lighter, freer, unburdened — before the laundry, the mental load, the marriage, the kids, the everything that is now yours to carry?Maybe you've whispered it to yourself in a tired moment — I don't even feel like myself anymore. Or I don't know who I am outside of what I do for everyone else.Mama, that grief is real. And you are allowed to feel it.And — there's something you need to hear about that girl you've been missing.In this episode we're talking about what happens to our sense of self when motherhood and marriage change everything. Because somewhere between becoming somebody's wife and somebody's mama, a lot of us stopped belonging to ourselves. We're running on fumes, feeling stuck, and quietly mourning a version of ourselves we're afraid is gone forever.She's not gone. She's been leveled up.We're digging into why it's okay to grieve who you were and how to stop living in reaction to that loss — because the way you're showing up right now, in your marriage, with your kids, in your own head — it's being shaped whether you're choosing it or not.Psalm 139:13-14 anchors this one in a way that might just make you see yourself differently.In this episode:Why the load you carry now was always going to change you — and why that's not a bad thingThe storage room analogy that will shift how you see every version of yourselfHow grieving who you were might actually be keeping you stuckWhat it means that God was knitting you together then — and is still knitting you together nowYour marching orders for this week to start reclaiming the parts of her you've been missingGet on the insider list with Mitch and get updates on the newest episodes, extra tips and little love notes to you inbox!  → www.faithfulmamarising.com/insidersReady to get clarity and love who you are in the life you're living, again?  → www.faithfulmamarising.com/coachingBecome part of a community of like-minded Mamas who know there's more to life than just living on fumes!  → Mindset for Moms and Marriage