“It’s being the person that you need to be in order for you to raise what is essentially a fresh start,” she explained. “This little tiny person is a fresh start for you to instill morals, values, beliefs, hopes, dreams.”
“You have to make sure that you are right in your own mind in order to be that person that your child is going to look up to and be like, ‘Oh, mommy did this right. Mommy did that,'” she continued. “But then, I think when the world gets so loud and overwhelming, that the only voice that I hear is my own saying that I can’t do it. That’s when I’m the loneliest.”
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