Wow, thanks for sharing. That takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable, so good for you to go for it!
I'm sorry to hear you've been dealing with all that. Kids are a blessing, at least that's what my mom said many, many times (enough that as I think back about it, she probably was trying to convince herself. We were a handful.) Kids can also be a lot of work and if you're going through your own stuff, they can exacerbate it.
I'm going to cut myself some slack and not beat myself up about it because I have made progress!
Good for you to cut yourself some slack, but don't wait for progress to do so. I can tell just from how you write that you're an authentic, caring, hard-working woman who tries her best in all she does. You're doing your best and that's awesome! Don't push yourself too hard. You're amazing!
Have a great day!
Thank you for your kind words. Sometimes I worry that maybe the content I'm producing is "too shiny" for some people. But then I have to remind myself that I'm not making this content for anyone but myself. No one needs to always see the cobwebs in the corners of my mind, I'd rather share the ways I worked through them. 😊