For the mama who is barely holding it together

You Are Not a Bad Mom.
You Are Just Running on Empty.

The 15-Minute-a-Day Recovery Plan for Moms Who Do It All

Not a Bad Mom book cover
Yes, I Need This ♥

176 pages of small resets that bring you back to yourself

Dear tired mama,

I know you cried in the car today. Or in the shower, where the water could hide it. I know you replayed that moment, the sharp tone, the sigh, the phone you picked up instead of her eyes, and I know the voice in your head called you a name you would never let anyone else call you.

Here is what I need you to hear: you are not a bad mom. You are a good mom running on absolutely nothing. There is a difference, and that difference changes everything.

Nobody applauds you for the lunches packed, the fevers sat through, the bedtime battles fought alone. So you keep pouring from a cup that has been empty for months, and then you blame yourself for being tired.

I wrote this book for the version of you that sits on the bathroom floor at 11pm, scrolling, too exhausted to sleep, whispering "where did I go?"

Not a Bad Mom is a 15-minute-a-day recovery plan built for real mom chaos. No hour-long morning routines. No bubble baths you do not have time for. No guilt dressed up as self care. Just small, honest resets: a morning reset that takes less time than reheating your coffee, village-building chapters that help you ask for help without feeling like a burden, and burnout recovery you can do in minutes a day, between the chaos, inside the chaos.

Fourteen chapters. One hundred seventy-six pages. Every single one written by someone who believes you were never the problem. The empty tank was the problem.

You do not need to become a different mom, love. You just need to come back to yourself. Fifteen minutes at a time.

With so much love,
Leo ♥
Not a Bad Mom, a recovery plan for moms who do it all

this is for you, the one who does it all ♥

This Book Is For You

and here is everything waiting inside it

Not a Bad Mom book cover, framed for you

keep it on your nightstand. open it on the hard days.

♥The Morning Reset

A gentle start-of-day practice that takes minutes, not hours. Built for mornings that begin with someone crying before your feet hit the floor. You will learn how to claim the first small piece of the day as yours, even when the house is already loud.

♥Village-Building Chapters

You were never meant to do this alone, and asking for help does not make you weak, it makes you wise. These chapters walk you through finding your people, saying the scary words ("I need help"), and building a support circle that actually shows up.

♥Burnout Recovery in Minutes a Day

The core of the plan: tiny, science-backed resets that refill your tank in the cracks of a real mom day. No spa weekends required. Just fifteen honest minutes that remind your nervous system you are a person too.

♥Letting Go of Mom Guilt

A compassionate, no-shame look at where guilt comes from and how to set it down. You will stop apologizing for resting, for working, for needing a minute, for being human.

14 chapters · 176 pages · written in a warm, straight-talking voice that never lectures you

Start My Recovery ♥
Not a Bad Mom, you are not a bad mom, you are just running on empty

pin this to your mirror. read it on the hard mornings.

Written by Leo Vance

behavioral strategist · Austin, Texas

Leo Vance writes punchy, no-fluff self-help for overwhelmed people. As a behavioral strategist, Leo studies why smart, capable humans run themselves into the ground, and writes the kind of books that feel like a friend telling you the truth with a hand on your shoulder. No lectures, no perfection, just honest tools that work in real, messy lives. Not a Bad Mom is Leo's love letter to every mother who forgot she is a person too.

The Questions Every Mama Asks

asked with love, answered honestly

"I have no time. How is this different?"

That is exactly who this was written for. The whole plan runs on fifteen minutes a day, broken into pieces so small you can do them while the pasta boils. If you have time to feel guilty, you have time for this. And unlike those hour-long routines that make you feel worse for skipping them, this plan bends around your chaos instead of fighting it.

"Will this make me feel more guilty?"

Never. This book has a strict no-shame rule on every page. There is nothing here about what you should have done, no perfect schedules to fail at, no side-eyes at screen time or frozen pizza. It meets you where you are, tired, doing your best, and starts from the belief that you were never the problem.

"Is this another perfect-mom book?"

God, no. This is the opposite of that. No matching pajama sets, no 5am club, no "just wake up earlier" advice from someone with a night nanny. This is a recovery plan for real moms with real mess, real budgets, and real exhaustion. If your life is not Pinterest, you are in exactly the right place.

"What if it does not work for me?"

Then you should not pay for it, and you won't have to. Every copy comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee: full refund, no questions asked, no guilt trip (we have had enough of those). If the plan does not bring even a little of you back, one email gets your money back. You risk nothing but fifteen minutes a day.

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One day your kids will remember a mama who came back to herself.
Let today be the day that story starts. ♥