Motherhood has allowed me to reparent myself and explore my own inner child work and traumas. Ultimately, I feel the biggest gift I can give to my children is to continue to work on healing myself. I want to think I am mostly the crafty, creative, Steiner, patient, loving, present mother. But I am also frequently the burnt-out, overwhelmed, anxious, impatient mother who sometimes has to make multiple repairs with my children. Becoming a single mother this year meant I had to abandon the idea of one parenting approach. I do my best to show up as the mother I want to be with my children, and I hope that will be good enough.