A much-needed voice of encouragement for every woman who had a baby and shed her mind

Sometimes, motherhood feels never-ending. A kid exists, chaos ensues, and it looks like life won’t return to regular.

In You Certainly are a F*cking Awesome Mom, award-winning journalist and Instagram star Leslie Anne Bruce acknowledges that, yes, motherhood is a complete mind f*ck-but then she offers the self-empowerment lessons new moms have to get through the psychic upheaval and emerge stronger than ever. After childbirth, a woman’s body, her relationships, and her very sense of self are examined like never before. Bruce encourages visitors to look past the sugarcoated truisms about the miracles of child-rearing to be able to embrace the true joys of motherhood, spit-up staining and all.

Packed with unfettered support from a mom who has been through everything, You Certainly are a F*cking Awesome Mom offers a lifeline of encouragement, inspiration, and community for the new mama who got a baby, lost her brain, and desperately really wants to find herself again.