Joining me for a 2 part mental health series with guest Louisa Mason.
Louisa is a perinatal child and family psychologist. She's also a Mum to 2 boys. She specialises in perinatal anxiety and mood, attachment and bonding and emotions in motherhood. Louisa talks about the challenges and wonders of being a Mum. She normalises that Motherhood is amazing but insanely hard at the same time. The constraint, burnout, guilt, feelings of wanting to escape, frustration, rage, anxiety, overstimulation, intrusive thoughts and relentlessness of early motherhood.
I love that she normalises that if you are finding it hard - you aren't doing it wrong, it's simply because it is HARD.
What did discussed:
- Do you commonly see Mums in your practice being quite hard on themselves?
- Why do we do this?
- What are some examples of how we can treat ourselves with kindness?
- Can you talk to us about fear of failure and where this comes from?
- Is it instilled in us from childhood or are we born with this?
- How can we move through fear of failure
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