Matrescence — Nobody Prepared Me for This

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There's a word for what so many of us have been quietly carrying — and nobody told us.In this episode, Jubilee gets honest about the moment she sat alone in a car with a free morning and realized she didn't know who she was anymore when nobody needed her. She shares how she found the word matrescence — the emotional, physical, and identity transformation that happens when a woman becomes a mother — and why just having language for it changed something in her.This one covers the guilt of needing a break even when you love your life, why matrescence gets mistaken for depression, the exhaustion of being ashamed of your exhaustion, and the tiny practice Jubilee started — Permission Slip Fridays — to slowly find her way back to herself.If you've ever loved your child fiercely and still grieved the woman you used to be — this conversation is for you. Pull up a chair.

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