The Hidden Burnout of Motherhood: Are You Carrying Too Much?

Motherhood is full of contradictions. It’s beautiful and exhausting. Magical and maddening. One minute, you're in awe of the little human you created, and the next, you're crying in the bathroom because you just want five minutes alone.

It’s in this quiet swirl of love, hormones, identity shifts, and sheer fatigue that many women find themselves experiencing something no one warned them about: postpartum stress.

And here's the thing—it's not always loud or obvious. 

Sometimes it shows up as irritation over tiny things. Or a sense of emptiness even when you're "doing everything right." Or that heavy, silent mental load you’re carrying that no one else seems to notice.

From Overthinking to Action: How to Manage Anxiety-Induced Decision Paralysis

You’re staring at your screen. You’ve reread the same sentence 14 times. You need to answer that email, make that call, choose between two options—any option—and yet… you do nothing. You scroll. You avoid. You maybe even cry a little.

Welcome to the funhouse that is anxiety paralysis.

If you’ve ever felt completely frozen by your thoughts, unable to make even the simplest decisions because your brain has officially short-circuited from overthinking, you’re not alone. This is more than procrastination. It’s a full-body, mind-numbing, deer-in-headlights kind of shutdown.