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Feb 2025
23m 55s

RMC 8 - From Good Girl to Perfect Mother

Annamaria Papayova
About this episode

Being a good girl is exhausting. Being a perfect mother is soul-crushing.

In this episode, I’m pulling apart the deeply ingrained good girl conditioning and how it sets us up for the impossible standards of the perfect mother myth. We’ll explore:

  • The good girl narrative and its grip on mothering
  • A heartfelt letter from a recovering good girl (yes, that’s me)
  • Why the perfect mother doesn’t exist—and never did
  • How we can redefine goodness on our own terms

If you’ve ever felt the pressure to get it all right, to be selfless, to hold it all together at the expense of yourself—this one’s for you. Take what you need, leave the rest, and know that you are already enough.

With love,

Annamaria xx

Thank you for listening. If this episode resonates, please rate, review, and share—so we can keep normalizing the real, raw, and messy beauty of mothering together.

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