305: 4 Ways To Manage The Mental Load of Motherhood

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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I have to laugh as I was recording this episode because I kept accidentally saying “the motherload” every time I went to say “the mental load of motherhood”. And let’s be honest. The mental load of motherhood is THE MOTHERLOAD. The Motherload (aka the mental load of motherhood) includes the 175 running lists you keep in your head in every single moment of #everydamnday. It includes: every school form you need to sign tonight how much creamer you have left in the fridge how many rolls of TP you have in the house when you need to call your mom what bills you need to pay by next Wednesday when the kids have their next day off school every single email you need to reply to today and which ones can wait until tomorrow what time the babysitter is coming on Friday which hotel you need to book for spring break which of your kid’s friends can’t have peanuts which of your kid’s friends you need to buy bday gifts for which socks your kid will NOT wear how many pairs of clean undies every single person in the household has left before you have to do laundry again what you’re having for dinner tonight and tomorrow and the next night and the next night and the next night and the next night which kid will eat crusts which kid will eat carrots which water bottle the kid will drink out of which water bottle the kid won’t drink out of You are a damn library of information. You are basically hosting your own world wide web in your head. It’s a lot. It’s too much. It’s maddening. And sometimes it feels SUPER unfair. The Motherload is exhausting on so many levels. I want to give you some hope. But I’m going to warn you that this will require some work on your part. But the work will be REWARDING. The work will lessen the load! When it comes to The Motherload, we tend to make it really hard on ourselves. We get in our own way over and over. We get stuck in perfectionism and martyrdom and make ourselves miserable. Listen in as I give you 4 methods to manage the madness. These methods are simple (although not necessarily easy if you’re Type A like me) and they are going to dramatically improve your life and create space in your head (who doesn’t need more space in their head?!) Links Mentioned: Join me for Inspired Mama in Grand Haven, MI on March 23rd: Inspired Mama Thank you to our sponsors: Third Love: To find the perfect fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase got to Third Love Instacart: Get your groceries delivered to your door! Save $10 off your first order at Instacart or on the Instacart mobile app when you use the promo code SHAMELESS10 at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 305. Show notes for this episode, including any links
0:05.8	mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors, can be found by going
0:10.0	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 305.
0:18.3	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:22.3	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:28.1	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives
0:32.8	every damn day.
0:34.3	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:37.3	So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in
0:38.4	our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find
0:43.4	us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.5	Mamas super exciting announcement. I am going to be the keynote speaker at Inspired Mama, which is going to be an event conference for moms. You all are asking me, like, what conferences are for moms? Well, here's one for you. So Inspired Mama is a conference for moms. They're going to be providing a high energy inspirational day for
1:11.5	moms to connect, grow, and become motivated to pursue greatness in everyday mommyhood. There's going to
1:16.8	speakers, breakout sessions, health panel, and shopping. So this is going to be in Grand Haven,
1:21.7	Michigan on March 23rd. And I want you to come. So if you're anywhere in the area near there,
1:28.0	if you can make the trip, I would love to meet you, I would love to see you, I would love to chat with you and hug you
1:32.5	and get to know you a little bit better. So check out the information over at inspiredmama.
1:38.0	And let me know if you get a ticket. I will keep an eye out for you. Post on social media. Let me know that you're joining me. Shoot me an email.
1:44.8	I want to know if you're going to be there
1:46.1	so I can keep an eye out for you.
1:47.3	Again, go to inspiredmama.
1:49.0	coma.
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