I would be lying if I said I wake up every morning ready to be a mom, a wife, a friend.

Sometimes my anxiety gets the worst of me and I want to do absolutely nothing.

On mothering anxiety, a podcast by Maria Lopez, I talk about the real, the raw, and the

very honest of what it's like to deal with everyday anxiety.

I don't hold anything back.

I use my own life experiences to be able to have others relate to me and to relate to

their own experiences.

My main goal is to make sure that everyone feels that they're not alone, because I've

been there.

I've had those thoughts, I've had those worries, I've had those anxieties.

If this sounds anything like you, take a listen to mothering anxiety, available on iTunes,

Spotify, and any other major places you get your podcasts from.

A lot of what's been happening for me lately is just finding more clarity and wisdom,

hopefully, and humor in it all, just, we're all kind of dressed up in these funny roles

on stage.

I'm my father's son, he's my father, maybe he was my son in the previous life, so maybe

we had some stuff we had to work out, maybe I'd been really tough on him, who knows.

But I think the overarching theme that I tried to partly have the golden age as well as

in my own life is forgiveness and compassion.

For myself, first, because in learning how to parent and take care of that little wounded

child with him myself, but also the wounded child with him, my own father, he was in pain

and I was just a reflection or a recipient of that, which he didn't have the skill set

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