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How to Rediscover Your Sense of Self in Motherhood
By Sherri Gordon — 2020
The pressure to become Super Mom is overwhelming at times — even suffocating for some. For this reason, women often succumb to the pressures of becoming an overachieving mother to the point that they end up losing their identity in the process.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.