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Posts by Wendy Atterberry

Wendy Atterberry is editor of the relationship advice website, DearWendy.com, which features advice columns, personal essays, funny and informative lists, polls, and commentary on relationships. She’s been featured on the Today Show, CNN.com, the New York Post, Glamour.com and elsewhere.

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6 Tips to Keep Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

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“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” ~Anais Nin

Last October, in a whiplash-fast, three-hour labor, two and half weeks before my due date, I gave birth to my first baby, a boy, named Jackson.

While pregnancy hadn’t been a breeze—I was hospitalized twice with complications, and, you know, no sushi for nine months—the first few weeks of Jackson’s life left me feeling, at times, like a shattered shell of my …