6 Steps to Stop Letting the Little Things Annoy You.
It took me almost a year to recover from pregnancy and childbirth.
I wasn’t able to properly process the trauma that my body had gone through. My body not only went through massive physical changes but also experienced chronic pain that lasted for multiple months. Add to this that my mental health had deteriorated as I unlearned what I thought I knew about myself.
It took me many months to understand my role as a new mom and what it meant to navigate my days with a new family member. My hormones were out of whack and my routine had changed to the core.
All that eventually caused me to overreact to the small stuff. I got overly annoyed over “big” things that were, well, silly. My family had to tiptoe around me while I had to constantly prove to myself that I wasn’t a horrible person; I was just a sleep-deprived mom who was adapting to her new normal.
You don’t have to experience postpartum to know how awful and messy it is to cope with small frustrations. Most of us overreact and explode sometimes, and that’s perfectly normal. But keeping our emotions in check while juggling hundreds of thoughts and responsibilities is not always possible.
