As a highly sensitive person (HSP), you were born with a beautiful, scientifically-proven trait that gives you an abundance of empathy, intuition, creativity, and awareness. It allows you to process more information and feel things more deeply than others. This also means you get overwhelmed and overstimulated more easily, you need alone time to recharge and recover, and you're likely very in tune to your own and other people's emotions. Once you become a mom, each of those challenges is made even tougher by this new, emotionally-charged, 24/7 gig with a whole bunch of extra stimuli.

Plus, there's this belief kicking around...

It says once you become a mom there's no time for you, everyone else comes first now, and your needs don't matter. It says you have to be constantly exhausted, depleted, stressed, and overwhelmed. That you can't take time for yourself, do things for yourself, or buy things for yourself. It says the more burned out and run down you are, the bigger medal you receive. And if you're not feeling that way, you're not doing enough. Go, go, go, give, give, give.