Sep 7, 2026 · 24 min · 12 segments
She scheduled the doctor's appointments. She Googled slime recipes. She packed lunches, answered school emails, signed permission slips, and showed up for her kids. So...how could she possibly be…
And it's, it's a lot and, you know, it's like I, I've told Whitney, listeners, I'll tell you guys, when it first came out, it brought me back.
... and her talking about brain fog, and she's desperately not wanting to feel this way.
And I even, like, feeling like she c- And we've done an episode on this, about feeling-
... how she couldn't give the attention to her third child the way she was gi- she gave her first, and we did a whole guilt episode of that.
So the thing is, I think most of us moms really can relate to the journal entries that Lindsay had.
You know, that she wanted to, I guess, get everything right, the nap schedules, the feeding schedules, you know, leaving a note for Patrick of say, "Hey, put Callan down at this time," all of that, like, keeping track of everything, and how she wanted to be the fun mom, but then she was also so ridden with anxiety of, "I have to get everything just right and just perfect." And you know, we also look at she was a labor and delivery nurse.
And I do feel like, especially in medicine, but in these serving professions where sometimes you can be dealing with life or death, that Type A, that perfectionism does come out very strongly in motherhood, and it's hard to accept, but we can't get motherhood right.
And it's, it's a lot and, you know, it's like I, I've told Whitney, listeners, I'll tell you guys, when it first came out, it brought me back.
... and her talking about brain fog, and she's desperately not wanting to feel this way.
And I even, like, feeling like she c- And we've done an episode on this, about feeling-
... how she couldn't give the attention to her third child the way she was gi- she gave her first, and we did a whole guilt episode of that.
So the thing is, I think most of us moms really can relate to the journal entries that Lindsay had.
You know, that she wanted to, I guess, get everything right, the nap schedules, the feeding schedules, you know, leaving a note for Patrick of say, "Hey, put Callan down at this time," all of that, like, keeping track of everything, and how she wanted to be the fun mom, but then she was also so ridden with anxiety of, "I have to get everything just right and just perfect." And you know, we also look at she was a labor and delivery nurse.
And I do feel like, especially in medicine, but in these serving professions where sometimes you can be dealing with life or death, that Type A, that perfectionism does come out very strongly in motherhood, and it's hard to accept, but we can't get motherhood right.
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