013 - The Truth About Mom Guilt and How to Resolve It

High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

Michelle Grosser – Inspired by Mel Robbins, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Dr. Becky Kennedy

Education, Time Management, Anxiety, Productivity, Nervous System, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Emotional Regulation, Parenting, Somatic Tools, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Overwhelm, Work-life Balance, Burnout, Mindset

4.9 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s that constant chatter in our mind - am I doing a good enough job raising my kids? Are they watching too much TV? Am I spending enough time with them? Am I feeding them too much pizza or mac & cheese?! If any of these thoughts have crossed your mind, you’re not alone. In this week’s episode, we look at the two types of guilt - purposeful and productive guilt, and punishing and unproductive guilt. Then I outline five simple steps we can work through to resolve our mom guilt...

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0:00.0	doing the work, either with a coach or on your own, to try to explore and understand why you do
0:07.4	what you do, why you did what you did, right? Because every action has a root cause, every choice,
0:15.6	every behavior, everything we do or we didn't do, there's a reason for it. And sometimes that reason is truly that we just
0:22.7	didn't have the experience or the knowledge or the skills. Or we were under-resourced as moms, right?
0:29.3	Maybe we were exhausted or we were disregulated in that moment or we were feeling undervalued or
0:36.1	under-appreciated or we were just plain frustrated, right?
0:40.8	We were burnt out at our wits end.
0:43.2	And having this level of understanding,
0:46.2	the motivation or the reasons behind the action that we took
0:50.0	that causes us guilt,
0:51.8	it helps us to unpack the behavior and the patterns that led us to that
0:56.0	action in the first place.
1:00.1	Welcome back to the motherhood podcast, a live workshop-style podcast that is helping thousands of
1:06.1	moms redefine their motherhood journey. There was a point in my life when I was trying to do all the
1:12.2	things. Parent my kids, pour into my marriage, run a busy law practice, keep up my home. And what I found
1:19.3	was that I was on the fast track to burnout until I discovered a better way. Now I help women just like
1:25.9	you to close the gap between their vision of motherhood
1:29.0	and what they're actually experiencing in their day-to-day lives. Together, we'll explore
1:34.2	when and where to simplify, systemize, and surrender. I promise you, you're already doing so much
1:40.8	better than you think. I'm your coach, Michelle Grosser, and this is Motherhood.
1:51.3	Welcome to the Motherhood podcast. In today's episode, we are going to be discussing the topic
1:57.5	of mom guilt. And I feel like I'm an expert on guilt since becoming a mom.
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