1217: The Conversations You're Avoiding Are Draining You with Dr. Ashley Blackington

Emotionally Uncomfortable

Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We all say we want support. But are we really ready to receive it?

In this episode, Heather sits down with Dr. Ashley Blackington to talk about the invisible load modern women carry, especially those who are caregiving, leading, and over-functioning in every area of life. From burnout to decision fatigue, this conversation unpacks what it actually looks like to take your power back in emotionally uncomfortable ways.

Here's what you'll hear:

🩶Why emotionally intelligent communication is a required life skill
🩶How martyrdom culture keeps women stuck in burnout cycles
🩶The mindset shift that helped Ashley reclaim her time, energy, and identity

If you're tired of carrying the mental load and ready to lead your life differently, this conversation is for you.

About Ashley

Dr. Ashley Blackington (OTD, OTR/L) is the Founder & CEO of Dovetail®- a family CRM to help family caregivers manage the logistics of care. Dovetail® was inspired by her time as a clinician and seeing the impact on family caregivers trying to navigate care without tools to simplify the process.

She was recently named Aurora Tech Awards Top 120 Global Female Founders to Watch in 2024. She is also the host of the AND/BOTH podcast (available wherever you get your podcasts), a show featuring conversations with moms honoring themselves as individuals alongside motherhood.

She is a mom of four, lover of hot coffee, and is working on her forthcoming book examining the intersection of generational trauma, feminism, and personal accountability. You can read more of her work on her Substack.

Connect with Ashley

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyblackington/
Dovetail®: https://dovetaildesigns.co
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dovetailapp/

AND/BOTH Podcast: https://www.andbothpodcast.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andboth_podcast/

***

Don't let another summer go by drowning in task lists, and the guilt of snapping at the kids.

The Energetic Time Management Membership is where you learn my proven system that has helped high-achieving women gain back 10+ quality hours a week (that's 520 hours a year!) while deepening family connections and recharging without burning out.

Maximize the impact of everything you already do. See real results in less than 30 days at a no-brainer price point.

Get started at heatherchauvin.com/membership

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	all right we're back today with another podcast episode and i got my trusty phone here because
0:16.4	i'm reading some notes i'm doing the intro um we are with Dr. Ashley Blackington. All right. We're back.
0:24.5	And I'm going to talk about her for a second. All right. We're back. All right. We're back. I am really
0:31.1	leaning in to kind of like the unlearning of this martyrdom, this victim energy that women hold with this
0:42.0	modern, you know, they called the invisible mother load.
0:46.4	All right.
0:46.7	The reason why I want to bring this up specifically about today's episode is because
0:51.2	Ashley and I talk about, you know, the caregiver load and all of that.
0:57.1	And she has an amazing network and app. And I'm going to talk about that in a second.
1:02.4	All right. We're back. I'm raising three boys. And what I have noticed is it is not culturally
1:08.8	acceptable for men in general to talk about their invisible load.
1:13.7	All right.
1:13.9	We're back.
1:14.1	And I think women as a culture, like we're used to expressing ourselves and being, they say,
1:20.8	more emotional.
1:21.8	But like, we're back.
1:23.0	We are more nurturers.
1:25.0	And we, um, we communicate differently. All right. We're back. And
1:30.9	all right. We're back. What I have observed in myself, my clients, the women around me is,
1:38.7	all right. Every human, regardless of gender, is carrying an invisible load.
1:45.3	Like every single human that you meet is carrying an invisible load.
1:49.9	And I do think culturally it is more acceptable for women to talk about the invisible load that they carry.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hosted by Heather Chauvin | Insights inspired by Mel Robbins, Bréne Brown, Danielle Laporte, Elizab and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.