Michelle Grace is a songwriter and author whose talent is unmatched. I’ll admit I
almost skipped “Me Time” when it landed in my inbox — another artist-comeback
pitch, another press release promising a “personal journey.
” Then I actually listened, late at night, after the kids were finally down, and it stopped me in a way
I wasn’t expecting from a dance-pop single.
Michelle Grace wrote this after years away from music, spent instead on the
much harder work of becoming a parent through surrogacy and figuring out who
she was on the other side of it. You can hear that distance in the song — not as
absence, but as perspective. This isn’t someone performing motherhood for a
lyric. This is someone writing from inside it.
I read that line three times before moving on. It’s the kind of thing you don’t write
unless you’ve actually sat with the guilt of wanting something for yourself while
loving someone else completely — which, if you’re a parent reading this, you
already know is its own peculiar math.
“Me Time” isn’t a parenting anthem, and I don’t think it’s trying to be one. But it
understands something a lot of “self-care” content doesn’t: that taking time for
yourself isn’t selfish, it’s structural — the thing that lets you keep showing up. Put
this one on the next time you’re folding laundry at 11pm. It helps.
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