Episode 6: I Love My Kids But Miss My Old Life. And How to Stop Feeling Guilty About It
Jenny had her first child in October 2020 and felt like everything that made her her had been wiped away.
In this episode of Dots and Dreams, Jenny gets honest about the parallel feelings no one prepares you for in early motherhood: love for the baby in the stroller, and sheer panic for the person pushing it. She traces both of her postpartum experiences — walking an empty Biarritz coastline with her newborn daughter during COVID, and watching the Paris Olympics opening ceremony with her infant son four years later — and the guilt that came with missing a life she once had.
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