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    • Your Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills
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The Guilty Mother and the Quest for Perfectionism

By Melissa Divaris Thompson, LMFT | October 8, 2014

Whether you are a stay at home or a working mother, it’s a fact that mothers struggle with an enormous amount of ‘mother guilt’. We are hard on ourselves. We push ourselves and expect perfection. We try hard to balance it all and a lot of times, we feel like we can’t. For some reason,…

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