Iliza Shlesinger

You just have to finish this session. And I was like, well, that's gotta be, I intellectualize it. And I was like, that's gotta be a chemical shift, right? And if you're doing that several times a day, it's gonna have not so much a long-term effect, but it's gonna have an effect on- Sounds horrific. The stasis of your mental chemistry.

Well, let's, you know, you're not crazy. Cause if I was the only one I'd be like, well then obviously I'm terrible.

Well, let's, you know, you're not crazy. Cause if I was the only one I'd be like, well then obviously I'm terrible.

and so i just uh i i stopped like you have these dreams of like i'll do it for six months and it's gonna be great i stopped and i was like you know what else is good for this baby like nice german baby formula and i didn't feel bad about it and i was so excited to be done and that is what kind of made it a little bit better for me and so here you are doing something that you want to do

and so i just uh i i stopped like you have these dreams of like i'll do it for six months and it's gonna be great i stopped and i was like you know what else is good for this baby like nice german baby formula and i didn't feel bad about it and i was so excited to be done and that is what kind of made it a little bit better for me and so here you are doing something that you want to do

that is good for the baby should be good for you and it's hurting you. And so, yeah, I just stopped and I didn't feel bad about it at all.

that is good for the baby should be good for you and it's hurting you. And so, yeah, I just stopped and I didn't feel bad about it at all.

I just don't think that there, aside from actually giving birth, which is super painful, I just don't think that there are a lot of things in life that should be so painful but are actually like great. Like you talk about like recovering stuff, those things are painful, but it gets to a good outcome. This was not getting me to a better place. And it didn't matter for the baby.

I just don't think that there, aside from actually giving birth, which is super painful, I just don't think that there are a lot of things in life that should be so painful but are actually like great. Like you talk about like recovering stuff, those things are painful, but it gets to a good outcome. This was not getting me to a better place. And it didn't matter for the baby.

And so I do think there is this pressure that I refuse to subject myself to with mothers where like there's no award for who breastfed best. There's no award for who made the kids' perfect lunch the most or for who tortured themselves the most. Nobody cares.

And so I do think there is this pressure that I refuse to subject myself to with mothers where like there's no award for who breastfed best. There's no award for who made the kids' perfect lunch the most or for who tortured themselves the most. Nobody cares.

So I was pumping. So at least he wasn't there. But vibrationally. That can't be a good thing. It can't be this little kid. It's his first few months on this planet and I'm just like weird. So, and I do believe that and you're not wrong.

So I was pumping. So at least he wasn't there. But vibrationally. That can't be a good thing. It can't be this little kid. It's his first few months on this planet and I'm just like weird. So, and I do believe that and you're not wrong.

Even growing up in a house, you know, if you're always hearing your parents argue or if mommy's always stressed, you know, even if you love your kids so much, they absorb that. As I learned yesterday when my daughter yelled, fuck you, not to me, just in the car to no one. And I had to do everything to just say nothing so she wouldn't know that that was a bad thing.

Even growing up in a house, you know, if you're always hearing your parents argue or if mommy's always stressed, you know, even if you love your kids so much, they absorb that. As I learned yesterday when my daughter yelled, fuck you, not to me, just in the car to no one. And I had to do everything to just say nothing so she wouldn't know that that was a bad thing.

And I was just like, where did you? And I'm like, I know you got it from me, but I didn't think you were listening, but it turns out you were.

And I was just like, where did you? And I'm like, I know you got it from me, but I didn't think you were listening, but it turns out you were.

Didn't know that. Didn't think about that. But that's being in your 20s, right? And by the way, that also keeps me going when like the career doesn't feel great. Because I don't, the money is great. Like you can make so much money, but like getting to do it is the reward.

Didn't know that. Didn't think about that. But that's being in your 20s, right? And by the way, that also keeps me going when like the career doesn't feel great. Because I don't, the money is great. Like you can make so much money, but like getting to do it is the reward.

Um, yeah, my parents, I just, I remember specifically with my mom, my parents were divorced and my dad, they're both very supportive and funny people, but my, I had a, I graduated college and I got an office job because that's why that's what had a degree. I got an office job. I was a horrible assistant, whatever. My bosses were so cool.