Children are such gifts," "My own children have opened my heart like never before. I'm not a terribly compassionate person, but motherhood has defini… - Paula Faris

I felt like I wasn’t seeing my husband or my kids,” Faris explained. “I wanted to be with my children. My schedule was just really crazy. I really decided to try something new which is why we blew up our lives and hit that great big reset button…and I decided to pursue a company of my own.”

My husband and I were separated early on in our marriage before we had children. And we just didn't feel right about [it],". "As much as I wanted to walk and as much as I wanted to be done with that marriage and move on with my life, I didn't have a peace about it.

I mean, mom guilt, it’s not just for me,” Faris said of her book’s subjects. “80-90 percent of mothers suffer from some level of mom guilt. And it’s just never feeling like we’re enough, like we’re never present enough, we’re not a good enough mom. We’re always projecting some sort of guilt upon ourselves. And so much of that is because in America motherhood isn’t really celebrated and there’s not a lot of support for being a mother.”