Nobody tells you that motherhood will change you in ways you were completely unprepared for. Not just your schedule, not just your body. You. Who you are. How you see yourself. What you need. What you grieve. What surprises you. What breaks you open.

In this episode Dr. Fatima Mohamed sits down with Fawzia Mohamed, mother and host of The Nourished Mom podcast, for a conversation that every mother needs to hear and that nobody in our community is having honestly enough.

Two mothers getting real about the things that catch you completely off guard. The emotional weight nobody mentions. The physical recovery that takes far longer than anyone admits. What a baby does to a marriage that was perfectly fine before. The slow loss of identity that happens so quietly you don't notice until one day you look in the mirror and don't recognise the woman looking back. The rage. The guilt. The loneliness. The pressure in our community to do it all gracefully and never admit that it is hard.

And what it actually means to take care of yourself as a mother when your culture, your community and sometimes even the people closest to you are all asking you to put everyone else first.

This one is for the mother who has everything and still feels like she is barely holding on. You are not alone and you are not failing. Nobody just told you the whole truth.

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