It was 1 a.m. on a Monday. I was lying in bed scrolling through Instagram, watching strangers travel to places I have never been, build businesses I have dreamt about, and laugh in ways that made it look effortless. And somewhere between the travel reels and the fitness transformations, a very unhelpful thought crept in. Do I just suck at life? I have hit a wall this week. Emotionally. Physically. Spiritually. The last four months have felt like four years. The transition
It was day 4 of summer break. My son was still in his pajamas at 2 pm. My daughter was horizontal on the couch, watching her third consecutive hour of YouTube. Someone had eaten an entire box of cereal between breakfast and lunch. And my husband had somehow hyperfocused his way into a three-hour garage cleaning session that rendered him unavailable for parenting duty. I stood in the kitchen staring at the messes scattered around the house and thought to myself, “How am I su
