Personal Growth

Motherhood doesn’t just change your life — it changes your brain. This piece explores synaptic pruning, the neuroscience behind the transformation from maiden to mother, and how loss becomes the doorway to growth.

More Than Just A Birth Story When a child is born, a mother is born also. It sounds poetic, like it should feel instantaneous. But no one tells you about postpartum emotions and how disorienting that truth can be — how you will never be the same human again after your first birth experience . From body, to hormones, to brain, to soul: you are remade. I didn’t know that then. 8 months pregnant and excited to be a Mama At 38 weeks, I jumped off a rock wall and hours later, my