Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 6

What Silence Teaches

Most families do not decide to teach shame. Shame arrives more quietly: in the subject that makes everyone suddenly busy, the joke that turns a changing body into a punchline, the parent who says “not in thi...

Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 5

Love Is Not the Same as Doing Everything for Him

There is a version of motherly love that looks generous from the outside: cooking every meal, washing every shirt, solving every problem, defending every mistake, and making sure ...

 Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 4

When Anger Is the Smoke, Not the Fire

There is a kind of rage that can arrive in parenting without warning. It can show up when the baby will not stop crying, when two children are fighting, when somebody laughs as you are tryi...

Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 3

When “Whoops” Becomes a Life-Changing Decision

When I say, “Whoops, I’m pregnant,” I know those words can sound casual. But there is nothing casual about what follows. A pregnancy can change your body, your relationship, your fu...

Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 2

When Motherhood Has Been Your Name for Years

For years, Delilah Patton has been known through the roles she performs beautifully: mother, school volunteer, caregiver, partner, aesthetician, artist, and the person who keeps the e...

Podcast Companion Article for Love Your Villain – Season 2, Episode 1

Parenting Is More Than Raising a Child

We often think parenting begins the day a baby is born. But in reality, parenting starts much earlier.

It begins with the relationship we have with ourselves, the health of our nervous sys...