The Momarchy

I became a mother, moved countries, and walked away from a demanding corporate career that had shaped my identity for years. Becoming a mother wasn’t a soft reset, but a powerful rupture — one that forced me to confront everything I thought I knew about success, worth, and endurance.

I spent over a decade working in high-pressure environments across diplomacy, government, consulting, and global finance.

I knew how to perform competence, absorb stress, and succeed within systems that leave little space for care — or humanity. I thought I understood pressure.

Motherhood proved otherwise.

This space exists because I began to see how deeply we’ve been sold myths about motherhood — myths that normalize exhaustion, comparison, and quiet self-erasure. I write to dismantle those narratives, especially the ones that leave women convinced they’re failing when the standards were impossible to begin with.