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So God Made A Mother

May 13, 2022 By Celeste Yvonne Leave a Comment

She needs to be fierce. Fiery. Brave. Her reflexes will be lightening quick. She can carry a human, sometimes two. But make her compassionate. Her love needs to be a force in and of itself. Love so powerful, it can overcome all adversity. A delicate balance between strength and softness. Firm, and kind. Rigid and…

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Single moms in custody battles? I see you too. D Single moms in custody battles? I see you too. 
Do you wonder why the mommy wine message rubs you the wrong way but you’re not quite sure why? This is one of just so many reasons the message is problematic. And this is why the people you most often see playing off this message are middle and upper class white women who are generally given the benefit of the doubt in our society. BIPOC and underprivileged are rarely given that benefit. Does the message seems so harmless to you now?
I want to remind you that I am not saying this to shame moms. I used to feed off this narrative too. And not by coincidence, I am also a middle-class white woman. But when you know better you do better. And that is what I hope with this message. We can all do better.
Do you want to learn more on this topic? Vena Moore has a thought provoking article on medium. I’m including the link in my bio.
She needs to be fierce. Fiery. Brave. Her reflexes She needs to be fierce. Fiery. Brave.
Her reflexes will be lightening quick. She can carry a human, sometimes two.
But make her compassionate. Her love needs to be a force in and of itself. Love so powerful, it can overcome all adversity.
A delicate balance between strength and softness. Firm, and kind. Rigid and forgiving.
She will be so capable. To work, to stay at home, and sometimes both simultaneously.
Her ability to juggle tasks faster than a mind was meant to process will defy nature. Sometimes, she’ll be moving so quick, she won’t even remember where she left her coffee, if she left laundry in the dryer, or whose nose she just wiped. 
She will be tired, so tired. But she will carry on. She will be strong. She must be! The stress and challenges she will face will be unlike any other responsibility. The greatest a human can face. But she will be up for it. She will be built for it. I will make sure if that, even if she doesn’t realize just how strong she is.
She’ll need to be unlike any other creation. She will carry the weight of the world, the honor of raising the next generation, and constant ebb and flow of family balance on her shoulders.
So God made a mother.
And she was good. 
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And spoiler alert… It doesn’t end well. Check And spoiler alert… It doesn’t end well.
Check out the Soberful podcast to find my interview with @veronicajvalli on mommy wine culture.
You can have your day back. Instead let’s see You can have your day back. 
Instead let’s see better postnatal support, affordable childcare and improved maternity (and paternity — which also supports mothers) leave.
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(Read to the end ⬇�?) If I told you I was brea (Read to the end ⬇�) 
If I told you I was breaking up with a lover, or a friend (let's call her Suzy), because we had a toxic relationship -- even borderline dangerous; you wouldn't ask "are you sure?" You wouldn't freeze up and change the subject, or stop inviting me to your BBQs.
You wouldn't hand me a phone with Suzy on the line and ask "Are you still not talking?" or "How about just once?"
You wouldn't say "You just need to learn how to moderate your relationship better."
You wouldn't go behind my back and say, "Whoa, that Celeste... she thinks she has a toxic relationship with Suzy but honestly I think she's just being melodramatic. Maybe we should avoid Celeste while she figures all this really, big, scary complicated stuff out."
And you wouldn't respond that you used to worry about your relationship with Suzy but then you  learned how to control it better. Or all the reasons why you have a healthy relationship with Suzy.
You wouldn't ask if I've tried drinking a big glass of water before bed and two Advil, so Suzy doesn't hurt me as much the next morning.
Or ask if I was pregnant. Or ask if something happened, with a tilted chin, like I am hiding a juicy story from you.
NO! No, you wouldn't. You would say, "you go girl!" You're better off without her. Or you'd say, "I'm rooting for you." Or maybe you would just hug me and tell me you support my choices.
And if you’ve read this far then you’ve probably caught on that this has nothing to do with Suzy and everything to do with my relationship with alcohol.
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Want to know the truth about why I quit my job? Want to know about my ED relapse? Comment with your email or DM me to access my very first post tomorrow via Substack. Or click on link in bio to sign up directly.
I’m only telling the story on Substack because sometimes Social Media is a really scary and unsafe place. The trolls have gotten out of hand and believe it or not some people are committed to seeing me fail. 
I’m not leaving social media. But you will never get 100% of me here. But honestly? Nobody gives 100% of themselves on social media… Let’s face it. It’s a love hate relationship and it works well for some things but not others.
We service our cars regularly. We need to service We service our cars regularly. We need to service ourselves too.
And very rarely do these paths line up. There is m And very rarely do these paths line up. There is more often a middle road between the two. And we need to get more comfortable walking in that space. The in between.
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