Motherhood Didn’t Make Me Smaller — It Made Me Stronger A Bad Breed Womanhood Post Straight From One Bad Maa There’s this quiet lie women are handed at every stage of their life: that motherhood is supposed to shrink you. That once you have a kid, you’re supposed to soften. Quiet down. Dress differently. Dream smaller. Carry only enough ambition to keep the house standing and keep everyone fed. You’re supposed to lose the pieces of yourself you worked hard to build, tuck them away, and trade them in for “acceptable mom behavior.” But here’s the truth no one
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Low-Heat Days Still Count — Notes From the Forge Mindset: The Forge Series There’s this lie we tell ourselves, that the only days that matter are the ones where we’re on fire. The days where the hammer hits clean, the sparks fly bright, the vision is sharp, and everything feels like it’s building toward something bigger. But here’s the truth nobody likes to admit: Most of the real work happens on the low-heat days. The slow days. The tired days. The “I don’t have it in me” days. That’s Forge work too. And lately? I’ve been living in the low-heat