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How to Mourn Your Former Self

I love my children but I miss who I was before I became a mother and I feel guilty for wanting parts of my old life back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Transformation, even chosen transformation, requires grieving the person we were before, and that mourning doesn't diminish our love for who we've become.

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