Caroline

“It’s okay to miss your old life.”
I gave birth during peak COVID time in 2020, and had a very isolating birth experience followed by having to move to another state and start a new job a shortly after giving birth. All of those changes at once made for a much more lonely start to motherhood and than I had planned, and I wished someone told me that it was okay to grieve my old life and that it is okay if it takes you a while to feel like you again (whoever the new version of you might be).