About this ebook
You know the feeling. It was not one catastrophic moment that broke you. It was forty-nine cents' worth of poster board at 2 a.m. It was crying in the grocery store parking lot because the self-checkout rejected your coupon. It was snapping at your child over something tiny and seeing the shock in their eyes and knowing — knowing with terrible clarity — that the person who just spoke was not who you wanted to be.
You love your children completely. That is not the problem. The problem is that somewhere between their first breath and this exact moment, you disappeared. And now you want yourself back.
The Overwhelmed Mom's Reset is the book for that moment.
Written by Rachel Sumner — workshop facilitator, writer, and a mother of two who burned out completely and rebuilt herself from the ground up — The Overwhelmed Mom's Reset is a research-backed, story-driven, honest guide to reclaiming your identity, your energy, and your sense of purpose without abandoning the people who need you.
Inside The Overwhelmed Mom's Reset, you will learn how to:
Recognize the cultural myths and mental load patterns that are driving your overwhelm — and stop blaming yourself for them
Reclaim who you are beyond motherhood, including your identity, your body, your rest, and your right to joy
Redistribute the invisible domestic labor that is silently crushing you — and have the honest conversation that makes it stick
Set limits that protect your energy with your partner, your parents, your friends, and your social media feed
Build lasting systems that prevent the overwhelm from coming back — not just surviving the next week but designing a life that sustains you
This is not a book about becoming a better mother by giving more. It is about becoming more yourself — and discovering, as hundreds of mothers already have, that a mother who has reclaimed herself gives better, loves deeper, and lives fully.
You were never too much. And you were never not enough. You were just running without a roadmap.
The Overwhelmed Mom's Reset is your roadmap. Pick it up today — your reset starts now.
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About the author
Rachel Sumner is a writer, workshop facilitator, and recovering overwhelmed mother of two. After a decade in magazine publishing, she left her career to raise her children and lost herself so completely in the process that exhaustion became her baseline. The years that followed — marked by burnout, identity loss, and a transformative reckoning with the culture of maternal sacrifice — became the foundation for her writing and advocacy work. She leads workshops and retreats for mothers navigating overwhelm, drawing on research from developmental psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Motherly, Romper, and HuffPost. She is also the author of When Enough Becomes Enough and The Quiet Hour.
