411: How To Create More Mental Space In Motherhood

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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No one told me… I had no idea how much mental space motherhood would require. I didn’t know that my brain would learn to run endless concurrent lists of tasks and to dos and important data, all day, everyday. There have been days that I thought my brain would explode from all the keeping track of things. All the remembering of things. All the planning of things. All the noting and filing away of things. It never ends. It’s exhausting. But there are ways to better manage it. There are ways to protect your mental space - especially from the invasion of details, content, and drama that you don’t need, that sucks your precious mental space and mental energy when you let them in. Listen in to learn 6 ways to create more (super precious) mental space in motherhood. Links mentioned: Join us at Shameless Mom Con 2020 SMA Ep 305: Managing the Mental Load of Motherhood Apps: Calm App, Headspace app Muse headband: Choose Muse Podcast: Women's Meditation Network Thank you to our sponsors: Talkspace: To match with your perfect therapist for a fraction of the price of traditional therapy, go to https://www.talkspace.com/, Make sure to use the code SHAMELESS to get $100 off your first month and show your support for the show. Third Love: To find the perfect fitting bra and get 15% off your first purchase got to www.thirdlove.com/shameless Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.8	411.
0:32.6	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate,
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1:12.4	Hello, shameless moms.
1:13.1	Happy Monday.
1:17.0	I am delighted and honored to be kicking off a new week with you, delighted and honored to be in your ear again.
1:19.0	And I'm excited about this conversation because here's the thing.
1:23.6	One of the biggest shocks of motherhood to me was the mental load and the mental space
1:29.6	that motherhood takes up. And it's not just motherhood. It's not just like the child rearing part of it.
1:35.0	It's like all the other stuff that comes with it that nobody ever told me about. Why does no one
1:39.9	warn us about these things? Your girlfriends who went before you, they should have told you
1:44.0	about the mental load. No one tells you before you, they should have told you about the
1:44.6	mental load. No one tells you until you're in it and you're like, I did not sign up for this.
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