Lisa Evans

motherhood is …

motherhood is meaningful

motherhood is messy

motherhood is empowering

motherhood is a curse

motherhood is surprising

motherhood is exhausting

motherhood is fulfilling

motherhood is lonely

motherhood is sugar and salt

motherhood is not pink

motherhood is the reason you’re here

motherhood is challenging and inconvenient

motherhood is “The Giving Tree” and you’re the stump

motherhood is the most beautiful pain you’ll ever know

motherhood is never calling your body your own again

motherhood is everything you don’t need on a bad day

motherhood is the best thing you’ll ever do

motherhood is the hardest thing you’ll ever do

motherhood is enlightening

motherhood is torture

motherhood is a gift

motherhood is suffocating

motherhood is joyful

motherhood is vinegar

motherhood is togetherness

motherhood is a total mindf**k

motherhood is like endless feats of heroism in the face of constantly eroding self-esteem

motherhood is about erasing bits of yourself as you colour them in

motherhood is like forcing yourself to be the ocean when you're a well that's run dry

motherhood is about learning how to mother when you were never mothered yourself

motherhood is doing the best you can with what you’ve got

motherhood is like the ever-changing seasons

motherhood is claustrophobic and terrifying

motherhood is about loss

motherhood is like a light in the darkness

motherhood is like open heart surgery

motherhood is like living your best life

motherhood is all the colours

motherhood is not something that is easy to describe

motherhood is this for me and that for you

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