Maybe it’s your friends. Maybe. It’s practically epidemic, the number of moms I speak with who are struggling with feelings of inadequacy. Feelings of being less than. Skirmishes of heart and soul that deplete any sense of accomplishment or value or confidence. Lots of worries. Lots of discouragement. Moms tell me that those feelings stem from lots of places. Comparison to the seemingly idyllic lives of online bloggers. Pinterest perfect expectations and the depletion that comes when any detail goes rogue. A generalized sense of sorrow that moms aren’t more valued in our culture. The difficulty of balancing roles of mom and wife and career and the sense that in excelling in one area, another is failing.