375 SelfWork: Knowing You're 'Mom Enough": A Conversation with Author Rachel Marie Martin
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
When I heard the name of the book my SelfWork guest - Rachel Marie Martin - has written, I knew I wanted her on the show. What's the title? Mom Enough: Inspiring Letters for theWonderfully Exhausting but Totally Normal Days of Motherhood (Dexterity, September 26, 2023). In it you'll find greatly affirming letters written for moms at various stages of motherhood, from the melancholic to the "tear your hair out" to the poignant.
Mom enough. It reminded me of an early psychological researcher, Winnicott, who was the first guy to stop blaming moms for all their children's psychological problems. He called it, "the good enough mother." And I know that's what I tried to be. Good enough. A
Rachel is also the founder of the popular social media community FindingJoy.net, as well as an author and host of the very popular FB page also called Finding Joy where millions of readers learn from her. I loved having her on SelfWork - and I know you'll enjoy her thoughts about everything about motherhood. And realizing just how hard it is.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:07.0 | At self-work we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them, |
| 0:15.3 | whether that's self-acceptance, taking action, or changing your attitude. |
| 0:19.6 | Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you who might already |
| 0:24.0 | be knowledgeable about mental health treatment but also to those of you who might |
| 0:28.1 | say you'd never darkened the door of a therapist and yet you're here I'll answer your questions while I invite you to take a few |
| 0:35.8 | minutes for your own self-work. |
| 0:40.7 | When you keep at something you start to figure out where your lane is. |
| 0:44.0 | And I knew I had this space of kind of like celebrating the underdog kind of quality of motherhood. |
| 0:52.0 | Because a lot of times we celebrate those stories. |
| 0:55.2 | Those are the movies we love and so many moms have come to me |
| 0:58.1 | feeling like they weren't enough or loving what I would write but saying, |
| 1:02.2 | you know, I love it but I'm just not feeling that and I thought all right what's the antidote to that? |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Self Work. |
| 1:12.0 | Rachel Marie Martin, our guest on self-work to this week's edition of Self- Work. |
| 1:13.0 | Rachel Marie Martin, our guest on Self- Work today, is a mom. |
| 1:17.6 | But she's also someone who believes in the power of the human spirit |
| 1:21.6 | to overcome, thrive, and find deep joy. |
| 1:24.9 | And so to honor that and reflect her beliefs, she's the writer behind the site, Finding Joy.net, |
| 1:31.1 | the author of the Brave Art of Motherhood that came out in 2018 and she has a new book |
| 1:35.8 | Mom Enough inspiring letters for the wonderfully exhausting but totally normal days of |
| 1:41.5 | motherhood. |
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