What It's All About
Motherhood forces you to face parts of yourself you've been avoiding.
Ancient wounds resurface, impossible standards crush you, and you're expected to handle it all with a smile. When Good Moms Feel Bad harnesses motherhood's transformative power by teaching you to work with your Mom Parts—the internal voices driving your perfectionism, your rage, your guilt, and your anxiety. When you stop battling your parts and start befriending them, everything shifts.
Inside This Book
Getting to know your Mom Parts
Your Mom Parts have been here for a while now, helping you manage all the shit that needs managing, and grabbing the wheel when things spin out of control. In some ways, you know your parts quite well - they're the voices that loop in your head, the reactions you can't control and the feeling of being at war with yourself.
But you've probably never really understood these parts of you - what they're afraid of and how they're trying to help. You keep trying to be a better mom. Less angry. More patient. And it's not working.
It turns out that what brings the most ease is discovering how your Mom Parts are trying to help you - and figuring out how to better help them.
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The Mom Parts framework—figure out which parts are running your life and what they're actually protecting you from
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Your Inner Mom—meet the wise, capable part of you that already knows how to nurture
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How your "worst" parts are actually on your side—your rage isn't a character flaw, your numbness isn't weakness, and your anxiety is trying to help
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What to do when you're losing it—practical tools for when you're spiraling, about to explode, or shutting down completely
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The uncomfortable truth about maternal shame and grief—why these feelings make total sense and what to actually do with them
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Break the patterns you inherited by healing your own wounds first
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Remedies that work—learn how curiosity (not discipline or willpower) unlocks real healing
