I would be lying if I said I wake up every morning ready to be a mom, a wife, a friend.

Sometimes my anxiety gets the worst of me and I want to do absolutely nothing.

On mothering anxiety, a podcast by Maria Lopez, I talk about the real, the raw, and the

very honest of what it's like to deal with everyday anxiety.

I don't hold anything back.

I use my own life experiences to be able to have others relate to me and to relate to

their own experiences.

My main goal is to make sure that everyone feels that they're not alone, because I've

been there.

I've had those thoughts, I've had those worries, I've had those anxieties.

If this sounds anything like you, take a listen to mothering anxiety, available on iTunes,

Spotify, and any other major places you get your podcasts from.

And by this point, she had added opiate addiction to her list of pathology, not just

narcissism and bipolarity.

And so this completely changed the whole topography of her personality.

And there was no reaching her at this point.

And it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.

And no matter what she said to me, I might leave in a moment in anger, but I always came

back.

And then she turned the attack from me to my children.

And in an instant, I went from victimized daughter to lioness protecting her den and her

cubs, and I threw my mother out of my life, and I never spoke to her again.

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