Selfcare Soup

I giggle that my last post was titled “The Mother Returns”…. not! I was certainly overly ambitious thinking I would eventually be back to my old self at two weeks PP. Long gone is the version of myself before I was a mom, and that’s what I’ve been in bootcamp learning over the last several months (in a good way, but postpartum is HARD).

Many of times I tried writing, and found myself quitting one paragraph in. I was not confident in my new voice. I was also confused as to what to write about since I spend less time outside and certainly less time focused on the leaves and lichen around me. Instead, I pay attention to my child, household, and all the things that go into raising young. We'll get outside, eventually. For now it's limited to long stroller walks and random bouts of working in the garden.

Something I have learned since becoming a Mom is the importance of taking impeccable care of myself in new ways. Gone are the days of going for a surf session on a whim or hiking hours in th…