Motherhood in the Middle — On Isolation, Immigration & Finding Your Village

There's a kind of loneliness that follows you even when the people you love are in the room. And then there's the quieter kind — the one that settles in when they leave.In this episode, Jubilee gets honest about the parts of early motherhood nobody documents: the grief of a blueprint that didn't survive the move, the silence after her mom flew home, and what it actually felt like to be in the tunnel when everyone kept pointing to the light. She talks about growing up watching Nigerian women pour into new mothers, the letter she wrote to her friends before postpartum hit, and what it means to build a village from scratch in a city that's still new. This one is for every woman in the middle — still figuring it out, still finding her way back, and not yet able to see the light but walking toward it anyway.Pull up a chair. You're not alone in this.