895: Manage the Mental Load of Motherhood with More Ease

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As you prepare for motherhood, you think about things like what color to paint the nursery, which car seat is the safest, and what your birth plan should include. You carefully pick out cute tiny clothes, booties, and hats while you dream about sweet snuggles and that first baby smile. You likely don’t think about the mental load of motherhood. You don’t consider how much your brain will have to expand, compartmentalize, and carry. Shortly after that sweet baby arrives, you feel the intensity and demands of your daily life balloon in ways you never imagined. This continues for years; decades, actually. If you feel like you're carrying a heavy load all the time, you are. The mental load of motherhood is immense. Over time, you become numb to it. You don’t realize you're chronically tired, overwhelmed, anxious, and emotionally drained because it feels normal. This is motherhood. That feeling of not recognizing yourself, forgetting who you were before kids, and not knowing who you'll be when the kids no longer need you? It's normal. The whiplash from rapidly switching roles from mom to professional, family project manager, and community caregiver that leaves your head spinning? Also normal. The constant trade-offs that cost you time, energy, and joy? Also normal. I’m not saying this to make you feel worse—only to point out that this is pretty much a universal experience of motherhood. You are not alone. What if acknowledging all this helped you see how much you are carrying, while also recognizing that change is necessary - and possible? In this episode, we explore four ways to navigate the mental load of motherhood, helping you find more mental ease, joy, and comfort in your daily life. Link mentioned: Attend my Influence & Ignite Retreat for Women Business Owners: shamelessmom.com/retreat We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 895.
0:34.4	In this greatest hits episode, we're talking about managing the mental load of motherhood with
0:38.5	more ease. Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found
0:43.3	by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 895.
0:52.2	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, stories, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more powerful, positive, and purposeful lives every damn day. So, let's dive in. We are going to be talking about the mental load of
1:16.8	motherhood today and taking a moment for yourself is a really important thing to do as you
1:21.1	navigate the mental load of motherhood. This is something I've talked about a few times on the show.
1:25.9	I'll actually link to other episodes where we talk about the mental load of motherhood
1:29.6	in the show notes.
1:30.5	But it's an important thing to come back to because I think as we navigate different
1:34.0	seasons of motherhood, this shows up in different ways.
1:37.1	And sometimes I think that we don't realize until all of a sudden we're real tired and cranky
1:42.3	that, oh, I'm in like a new season of the
1:45.0	mental load of motherhood. And I need to use some tools and practice some self-compassion and
1:52.8	like really kind of step back to see what's happening and understand what's happening in order to
1:58.9	make some choices that maybe grant me a little support
2:02.7	moving forward. So I hope that is what this episode brings to you. I think it's really important
2:07.3	to address why the load of motherhood can feel so heavy sometimes. And I think this starts off
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