Women often feel guilty about… well, everything. From the moment we’re born, we learn how to feel guilty—not good enough. We’re guilty if anyone else is not happy, which means we’ve failed at our primary job—making other people happy. As mothers, we’re guilty... just because. The list of what we’ve done wrong, how we've failed our children, is endless. And if we can’t figure out why we’re guilty, then we’re guilty for not looking hard enough.

I recently had an experience that was shocking—because I didn’t feel guilty. Guilt was absent in a situation that in the past would have left me ruminating over my "crimes" for days. Even though everyone around me played their usual parts in the bad mom movie, I didn’t accept the role of the guilty character. I didn’t play that part in everyone els

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