"I'm Burnt The F Out With Thinking About My Motherhood": With writer Sara Peterson

Writer, author, and mom of three Sara Peterson has been down all the instagram wormholes and has lived to tell about it. On this episode, your host Alexis , and Sara have a super candid conversation on the ways in which performative motherhood and momfluencers are wearing us all down. Sara shares with us what it means to be a "hot mom", why prescriptive parenting doesn't work, the new mom haircut, and we also discuss . . . haunted Mormons (IYKYK). Sara's book, MOMFLUENCED, will be out this spring. We go deep into momfluencer culture in this episode, so here are a few articles to provide "supplemental reading":

Articles by Sara:

• Momfluencer Culture Enrages Me: Why Can't I Look Away?
• Why I want to quit social media
• Apparently makeup for children is just as much a thing as skincare for children
• Why I’m struggling to explain my beauty routine to my 4-year-old daughter

Also discussed in the episode:

• Mormon influencer exposes ‘soft swinging’ secrets on TikTok: ‘Everyone hooked up’

Subscribe to Sara's Substack, "In Pursuit of Clean Countertops", here.

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