When mothers get together, the conversation inevitably turns towards their children – “he rolled over for the first time; she ate a whole bowl of soup; I was up all night; my toddler had a screaming fit at the supermarket, and I was so embarrassed!” Rarely do we talk about the deeper sense of self-loss, confusion or anger so commonly felt among us. We often keep these personal, confusing feelings to ourselves because we are conditioned to believe that becoming a mother is the best thing that could happen to us. While this statement is not false, it does negate
