Why 'Finding Yourself' After Motherhood is Actually Impossible
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I spent three years desperately trying to 'find myself' and ended up feeling more lost than ever. Sound familiar?
If you've been following all the advice to discover your passion, try new hobbies, or reinvent yourself after motherhood—and you're STILL feeling disconnected—this episode will change everything.
Here's the truth no one's telling you: You can't find what was never lost.
That exhaustion you feel from constantly searching? It's because you've been treating yourself like a stranger you need to meet, instead of a friend you need to reconnect with.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why the entire 'find yourself' industry has it backwards (and why this keeps you stuck)
- The moment everything shifted for me—sitting in my car after another failed attempt to become someone new
- Three simple techniques you can use THIS WEEK to reconnect with who you really are
- How to do this in just 5 minutes a day without adding overwhelm to your life
- Why your kids actually feel MORE secure when you know who you are
Your sense of humor, your values, your way of seeing the world—they didn't disappear when you became a mom. They're just buried.
And buried things? They can be uncovered.
Stop searching for the new you. It's time to come home to the real you who's been there all along.
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Chapters
1. Challenging Self-Help Myths (00:00:00)
2. Why You Can't "Find" Yourself (00:01:55)
3. Reconnection vs. Reinvention (00:04:25)
4. Three Ways to Reconnect (00:05:21)
5. Five Minutes That Will Transform (00:08:00)
6. Finding Breadcrumbs Back to You (00:09:30)
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