09/10/2026
Nobody tells you that the woman you were doesn’t come back the way you left her.
Some of her does. The rest gets built into someone new.
That in-between part has a name. Matrescence. The identity shift of becoming a mother, the same way adolescence is the shift into adulthood. Slow, disorienting, and completely normal.
You are not losing yourself. You are becoming someone you haven’t met yet.
I’m a licensed therapist certified in perinatal mental health, and I post the things I wish someone had told me at six weeks postpartum.
Follow if you’re in it.