Speak, Mother | Motherhood Burnout Recovery & Identity Reclamation
Jun 16, 2026 · 7 min · 4 segments
Send Shannon A Note A quick one this week: If you've been comparing your timeline to someone else's highlight reel, this is your reminder that it's…
Shannon WarnerHost
Whether it's what their life looks like at this same age that you are, or if you're an entrepreneur and watching someone else's launch or watching a colleague's career make strides that you're not feeling in your own, or if it's just someone else's highlight reel on Instagram, put it down.
Everyone is posting their wins, their vacations, their launches, their glowing family photos, all of the fun and sun and beach and whatever.
And you're sitting there in your living room thinking, why am I still here? Why hasn't mine happened for me yet? Why does it feel like everyone got the memo except for me? The stay at home mom watching her friend build a business from scratch and thinking, I gave up my career for this and she's out there thriving.
Or the working mom scrolling at 11pm after a brutal week thinking, she makes it look so easy.
Why is it so hard for me? The entrepreneur watching someone in her industry launch something big thinking, I've been working on this for two years.
We're looking at the finished product and comparing it to what we know exists behind our scenes.
We're comparing our chapter three to someone else's chapter 10, and we have absolutely no idea what is going on behind the scenes over there.
Is it an absolute shit show? Is their marriage falling apart? Does she have a team of people and a financial safety net that we know nothing about? Did she sacrifice things we would never be willing to sacrifice to be able to get there? We don't know.
Whether it's what their life looks like at this same age that you are, or if you're an entrepreneur and watching someone else's launch or watching a colleague's career make strides that you're not feeling in your own, or if it's just someone else's highlight reel on Instagram, put it down.
Everyone is posting their wins, their vacations, their launches, their glowing family photos, all of the fun and sun and beach and whatever.
And you're sitting there in your living room thinking, why am I still here? Why hasn't mine happened for me yet? Why does it feel like everyone got the memo except for me? The stay at home mom watching her friend build a business from scratch and thinking, I gave up my career for this and she's out there thriving.
Or the working mom scrolling at 11pm after a brutal week thinking, she makes it look so easy.
Why is it so hard for me? The entrepreneur watching someone in her industry launch something big thinking, I've been working on this for two years.
We're looking at the finished product and comparing it to what we know exists behind our scenes.
We're comparing our chapter three to someone else's chapter 10, and we have absolutely no idea what is going on behind the scenes over there.
Is it an absolute shit show? Is their marriage falling apart? Does she have a team of people and a financial safety net that we know nothing about? Did she sacrifice things we would never be willing to sacrifice to be able to get there? We don't know.
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