When It’s Hard to Accept Help

For some of us, it’s frankly hard to know where to even begin on the topic being willing to ask for and receive help. This is a big theme in my own life, as like so many midwives I’m a helper by trade and personality; a great deal of my career has been spent encouraging mothers to ask for and receive support, and teaching them that it also gifts the giver. And then the time came for me to accept some help.