Weekly EditionMay 2026
Well, Mostly
Modern motherhood, discernment over performance
A note from the founder
I started Well, Mostly after realizing modern motherhood had somehow become indistinguishable from project management.
Every decision sat in a tab somewhere. Every nap-time was a sprint to read more, audit more, optimize more. None of it was making me a better mother. Most of it was making me a worse one.
I'm a trained health coach and a former tech executive. Two under two, no village, no roadmap. I built the thing I wish someone had handed me earlier. Intelligent information without the panic spiral.
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Cultural Commentary
Notes on Butter Mom.
The butter was never the point. What most women have quietly been after is a life that feels softer, less optimized, more livable.
Read →The Letter · Substack
You're not slipping. You're in matrescence.
A named concept for the identity shift no one warned you about.
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You were never undisciplined. You were interrupted.
On cognitive load, and the difference between not finishing and being interrupted.
Read →The Letter.
What I'm reading. What I'm rethinking. What I would have wanted someone to tell me last week.
From this week's letter
Not burned out, not thriving, still functioning.
The middle place wellness culture has no language for, and what the maternal-brain research actually says about the fog you can't explain.