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.

So if the parent is constantly physically abusing the child, the child can't comprehend

that, well, maybe my parents have their own stuff that they need to work through, and

this is why they're the way they are.

The child just says, well, it must be me.

I mean, it must be something that I'm doing.

It must be that I'm bad or that I'm not lovable or there's something wrong.

And so the child internalizes that experience and then becomes very self-critical and with

holds love from themselves, they lack the lack of compassion, they lack self-love.

Welcome to how my parents raised me, I'm Dawn Chitty.

When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls, and the direction our life

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