So I have a short message today for every mom who has worked so hard to raise her children,

who has sacrificed to make home a safe place with unconditional acceptance and love, who has struggled to hold her family together, sometimes with

an unsupportive spouse, who stays up late worrying about her family and rises early to pray for

them, who sometimes suffers in silence but keeps going, who has worked

and labored harder than anyone knows to make changes in her own life, to break those old patterns but who never feels like she's done

enough or is good enough I want you to let this sink in and repeat it again and

again I'm proud of you. I'm really proud of you. I'm proud of you.

You don't hear that enough, moms, either from others or yourself.

So many of you have suffered trauma as a kid or in your marriage.

You ended up with a controlling man or a narcissist,

or you grew up in a controlling religious environment

in which your voice was never heard.

So you never learned to speak up.

Or you doubted in second-guessed your instincts

and you got hurt badly.

Yet here you are, working through your own hurts and trauma and struggles,

selflessly doing everything you can to make sure your kids don't experience the same pain you did.

Many of you are doing this by yourself without any support at all and no one knows

how hard this is, how lonely that road can be. No one

knows what it's like to feel so vulnerable emotionally, sometimes financially,

and to even feel helpless to do the one thing you want to do

better than anything else you've ever done. Be a mom. But then you feel like you're not doing

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