This Isn’t the Motherhood I Was Promised: Motherhood, Neurodiversity & Breaking Cycle

This Isn't the Motherhood I Was Promised is a deeply personal and heartfelt exploration of motherhood through the lens of neurodiversity. Through raw storytelling and lived experience, Lisa Cutelli shares the realities so often left unspoken: sensory overload, emotional burnout, birth trauma, physical recovery, self-doubt, guilt, comparison, and the quiet fear that perhaps you're not cut out for motherhood at all. Exploring the often-overlooked connection between neurodiversity, birth trauma, hormonal changes, and the way a woman adapts to motherhood, this book offers understanding and validation for parents who feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, exhausted, or as though they are constantly falling short.Exploring themes of identity, generational trauma, healing, and breaking cycles, Lisa challenges society's expectations of what motherhood should look like and reveals how those expectations can leave women disconnected from themselves and their children. More than a book about parenting, this is a journey from comparison to acceptance, from self-criticism to self-compassion, and from surviving motherhood to redefining it. Whether your child is neurodivergent or not, this book is a reassuring reminder that you were never meant to parent like everyone else. Your differences are not your weakness. They may be your greatest strength.