Anna Mathur on comparison culture, pandemic stress and not being ‘fine’

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anna and Polly chat to psychotherapist and Sunday Times Bestselling Author of ‘Mind over Mother’ Anna Mathur on the way the Internet impacts her mood. How you never feel enough when comparing yourself to an Internet’s-worth of people. This episode digs deep on the complexity of our feelings. How you can feel gratitude and pain in the same moment; the duplicity of being human. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:13.5	Welcome to Dirty Motherpucker. I'm Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker,
0:20.1	and I'm with Polly Haz the founder of Motherpucker. And I'm with Holly Hazelwood
0:22.4	in the house. Absolutely. In the house. Here she is. Just about. Oh my word. I just want to get
0:30.3	something off my chest. Oh, go on. Matt Hancock. Oh. In the jungle. Yeah. Seriously.
0:36.7	What's happening?
0:38.3	Can we have a word?
0:39.3	Can we have a minute for this?
0:42.8	The front page of the Metro reads today,
0:44.1	King of the Bungle.
0:49.4	It's almost as good as when I remember the Daily Mirror,
0:53.7	I think it was, questioning Tom Cruise's sexuality in their headline was Missionary Impossible?
0:55.4	Question mark.
0:56.7	You can imagine the subs just high-fiving themselves.
0:59.5	But anyway, King of the Bungle,
1:00.9	he's going into the flipping jungle.
1:03.8	And, I mean, aside from the fact he fucked us all over in COVID,
1:08.1	he's going to be coining in about £350,000 for this.
1:12.8	Just off the back of being a celebrity of fucking everyone over.
1:17.5	And so if that's not enough, I think the journalist on this piece has a place in my media heart.
1:25.4	The way he describes Matt Hancock
1:27.7	is like, I want you listener to imagine your
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