Welcome to About Progress, I'm Monica Packer, a regular mom and recovering perfectionist

who uncovered the truest model to dramatic, belasting personal growth.

Its progress made practical. Join us to leave the extremes behind and instead learn how to do

something to grow in ways that stick. Habits should be designed to support you,

full stop. To learn how, sign up for my course The Sticky Habit Method at AboutProgress.com slash

Sticky Habit Method. When you became a mom, what surprised you? There's always those

wonderful kind of surprises with motherhood, like how you didn't know you could love a little

body so much. How a single laugh could make you cry tears of joy and how hard it would be to

resist biting your baby when they're just so darn cute. But what about the hard surprises?

That you could feel resentment towards that same little body that spilled milk could make you

literally cry and how hard it could be to resist biting words when your child acts like a monster.

I was personally surprised by, well, everything about motherhood.

Most of all, I was surprised that it didn't feel like it came naturally to me. In fact,

I would say it wasn't until my fourth child that I felt like I could intuitively know what my

kids needed and how to respond. And these are instincts I thought I'd have from day one.

For years, it was really difficult for me to feel an alignment with how I wanted to feel as a mom

in comparison to how I actually felt as a mom. If you are experiencing that gap right now

and you are struggling in your motherhood, I want you to know two things really quick.

One, you are not alone. Two, it doesn't have to stay this way. In fact, our guest today Rachel

Nelson is a dear friend who taught me in a workshop she did years ago for a bigger workshop I

taught called rediscover you. She taught me how to bridge that gap and to really love motherhood again.

Rachel is a mom of two miracle kids, a former teacher and an incredible podcaster at one of the

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