After six years of motherhood, a woman was so burned out she couldn't climb the stairs. Three weeks into severe burnout, she made it to the top and cried, overwhelmed by relief. Dr. Tabatha Barber discusses how loving God doesn't protect women from real hardship and brokenness.
I remember 3 weeks in when I walked up the stairs. I raced my kids up the stairs to do bath time, and on Mondays Taylor takes meetings all day, so that was his day where he would always bring home takeout because I just had no energy by the end of the day with the kids to after bedtime and everything. So I remember going up the stairs and I made it to the very top and I still had energy and I felt excitement to put my kids to And I just wept in the stairway because I was like, I haven't felt this the entire time I've been a mother for 6 years. And it just kept getting better.
Because even though you looked like you had the perfect life and you were just like the perfect Christian, I felt something deeper inside of you. I was like, this girl's been through something. And I— this is honestly what we hear every day. Women come to us, they're like, I just held it all together for so long, and then I broke and I don't know how to fix myself, right? And so I just want women to hear that just because God loves you and you love God doesn't mean you're not going to struggle and go through some things. We live in a broken world and we are going to experience some things, right?
