"I've had too many people question my commitment to my children over the last ten years, and it influenced what i came to believe about being working woman," she says. "It was a long battle from mommy guilt to acceptance." She refuses to raise her daughter with the ideal that only one parent is ultimately responsible for who she will become. As an individual with depression, nothing is harder to hear from others than hearing that you can just choose happiness - there is no cure for a mental illness.