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{📸 @simplicite_ici } 〰️ Hey Mom Group: Toda ${📸 @simplicite_ici } 〰️ Hey Mom Group: Today marks the first day of Black Maternal Health Week. We are encouraging the (nsfmg) community to spread awareness about the state of Black maternal health in this country, and to give to the spaces and organizations that are continually and urgently committed to this work. A number of Black-owned platforms have already created thorough resource lists and we will be re-sharing them here throughout the week. Please re-share the slides you see on our stories that list some devastating facts about the current state of Black maternal healthcare in our country to educate those who may not know about these dire statistics. Please read up on the resources lists that Black women leaders have already created and GIVE to the places listed there. Give to the platforms, communities, and folks creating these resources so that this important work continues. Check back on stories every day this week where we will be re-sharing great places to give as recommended by Black businesses and platforms. . . . . #notsafeformomgroup #nsfmg #blackmaternalhealthweek #blackmaternalhealthweek2021 #blackmamasmatter #blackmaternalmortality #blackmomsmatter #momssupportingmoms #womensupportingwomen #momcommunity #momgroup$

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{📷 via @city_scum } 〰️ The Rachel Hollis de ${📷 via @city_scum } 〰️ The Rachel Hollis debacle has IG reeling, but we’re finding ourselves grappling with a bigger conversation. White women, ourselves included, are failing to receive feedback in a way that moves the dial forward. Progress is stunted when the reaction is defensiveness and denial — or at its worst, gaslighting. In a time when our every thought is memorialized in a post, it only seems right that we should sit with and learn from the feedback and criticism that comes with our public statements.⁠ ⁠ In some ways, it feels like white feminism has created an environment of toxic positivity, where if we hold each other accountable we are violating “The Sisterhood.” Ideas around #womensupportingwomen and Girl Power seem to imply that we can’t also push one another to think and reflect on our missteps and shortcomings without it feeling like a takedown. Last night, in our weekly @clubhouse , we were called in — and it felt uncomfortable — but it also was necessary, and we can’t imagine having had that conversation without it. It was a real-time moment of learning, receiving, and exercising humility — something that isn’t easy to do but is so vital for progress and change. ⁠ ⁠ At the end of the day, what is our objective when we call someone in for something problematic they’ve said or done? Sure, posting about it to Instagram feels like we’re doing something, but if the Rachel Hollises of the world aren’t open to receiving and growing then we’re just screaming into the void. By banding together against the patriarchy, have we created a culture of white women who pathologically can’t accept criticism? To lift one another up doesn’t mean we don’t also need to have the difficult and uncomfortable conversations. In fact, to fail to do is to fail one another. How do we stop being defensive when our lived experience as women has conditioned us to put up so many walls?⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #motherhooodispolitical #notsafeformomgroup #nsfmg #whiteallyship #whitefeminism #whitesupremacy #clubhouse #momssupportingmoms #allboatsrise #trialanderror #nocookies #antiracism #dismantlethepatriarchy #accountability$

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{📷 via @prix_virginia} 〰️ UNMET EXPECTATION ${📷 via @prix_virginia} 〰️ UNMET EXPECTATIONS 〰️ "Hey Mom Group: I’m reaching out because I know this is a safe space. My daughter turns one tomorrow, and so today I’m allowing myself to feel all of MY feelings and focus on myself because tomorrow will be about her. I have officially lived one year in constant stress. A pandemic, a small circle with little support, working full time, trying to mom so hard. I’m tired and I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed I couldn’t quit my job to stay home when it all became too much trying to balance work/mom life. I’m disappointed my husband never stepped up (he currently stays home with our daughter) and fought to find a way to support us. I’m disappointed he has no drive, especially because I’m a very driven person. I’m disappointed I feel ambiguous toward him because a small piece of my doesn’t trust him to take care of us. I’m unattracted to him because his lack of ambition and willingness to let me hurt so the bills get paid. I’m disappointed I’m not the mom I wanted to be be because I’m constantly tired and stressed and anxious. I’ve been fighting PPA and I’m disappointed I haven’t conquered it yet. I’m disappointed I was so miserable when my daughter was 5-9 months that I feel like I missed out on being fully present and “enjoying every moment”. I’m disappointed my life is nothing like I want it to be and there’s no change in sight and I feel this huge pressure to be some type of mom that’s unrealistic in my given mental state.” We all need space to grieve our unmet expectations — about our careers, friendships, relationships, and motherhood. We welcome you to share and grieve yours here. More anonymous conversation to come in stories. . . . . . #notsafeformomgroup #nsfmg #heymomgroup #momgroup #momcommunity #talkingcircles #postpartumempath #postpartum #fourthtrimester #fifthtrimester #newmom #overwhelm #supermom #maternalmentalhealth #pmads #momssupportingmoms #workingmoms #motherhoodunfiltered #rawmotherhood$

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