Issue #21: Read This If You’re Struggling with Mom Brain

It’s time to rewrite the narrative on Mom Brain — sharing my own foggy, forgetful moments and taking a closer look at matrescence

captured on film by my mama friend @sanetralongno

I’ve never felt more creative — and utterly blank — in my entire life.

It’s this beautiful, bizarre paradox of Mom Brain. One minute I’m writing entire chapters of my book, fingers ablaze on this dear Logitech keyboard… and the next I’m standing with the fridge open, wondering why I walked there in the first place. Oh, it was actually a pair of socks that I needed.

I may have forgotten something you said ten minutes ago. I might leave my phone at the checkout counter and only realize it when I’m halfway down the road. I might brew coffee without the beans. Or without the pot. I definitely might crack an egg or two directly into the sink instead of the bowl.

And when you ask me on Monday what I did over the weekend, I’ll stare at you like a deer in headlights, waiting for the memories to come back to me as if it wasn’t just yesterday.

There have been times my husband looks at me and says, frustrated, “Babe, I feel like you’re not listening to me.” And I promise him it’s me, not him. It’s just my brain doing that spinning Mac cursor dance… round and round, buffering for what feels like forever. And then I start to cry, and tell him to please be patient with me, because the speed at which my brain seems to operate these days is frustrating me too.