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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Get Amy Wilson's new book HAPPY TO HELP at bit.ly/happytohelpamazon or wherever you buy books! It's a good thing to be aware of the emotions and needs of the people around us. For some kids, it can tip into hypersensitivity to others' emotions, people-pleasing behaviors, and asking if people are mad at them approximately twenty times a day. How can we help? (And is it way worse for girls?) In this episode, hosts Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables discuss: What empirical studies of gender differences in emotion really show How empathy can correlate with social anxiety Strategies for highly empathetic people to disentangle themselves from others' emotions Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Our "How to Yell Less" episode Toni Bernhard J.D. for Psychology Today: It's Time to Stop Taking Things Personally Connie Chang for Parents Magazine: How to Help Your Sensitive, Deeply Feeling Kid Handle an Overwhelming World Kateri McRae et. al in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Journal: Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal Athena Chan for The International Business Times: Are Women More Emotional Than Men? Not Really, Study Finds Kim Elsesser for Forbes Magazine: Labeling Women As ‘Emotional’ Undermines Their Credibility, New Study Shows Teresa J. Frasca et. al for Psychology of Women Quarterly: Words Like Weapons: Labeling Women As Emotional During a Disagreement Negatively Affects the Perceived Legitimacy of Their Arguments Zawn Villines for Medical News Today: Empaths and anxiety: Is there a link? Merle-Marie Pittelkow et. al for Journal of Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety and Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Sohee Jun for Forbes Magazine: Ways to Stop People-Pleasing Subscribe to Amy's Substack for more about Happy to Help: amywilsonauthor.substack.com Join Amy at one of her HAPPY TO HELP launch events, regularly updated at http://bit.ly/happytohelpevents. 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://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parental stress, kids stress, gender roles, gender equity, gender stereotypes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I am so happy to report that after many months of hard work, my book,
0:05.4	Happy to Help, Adventures of a People Pleaser, is available for sale. If you've already
0:10.4	pre-ordered your copy, thank you. That is always a great way to support any author and any book.
0:16.8	If you haven't pre-ordered the book, today is a great day to buy it. Just search, happy to help
0:21.8	wherever you buy your books, or ask at your local indie. If you've bought the book and read the book,
0:27.6	today is a great day to review the book. Once a book is out in the world, one of the best ways
0:33.0	you can support that book is to review it on Amazon, on Goodreads, wherever you post your book reviews,
0:38.3	particularly, obviously, if you liked it. If you'd like me to talk to your book club about Happy
0:43.0	to help, I would love to discuss this book with readers. You can reach out to hello at amy
0:47.8	wilson.com to receive materials for your book club, questions and talking points to consider,
0:53.0	and then I would love to join a Zoom or a Google Meet to talk with your book club about the book.
0:58.7	So reach out at hello at amywilson.com.
1:01.3	Thank you again to all of you who are reading and reviewing and telling your friends about happy to help.
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1:45.5	Laughing in the face of motherhood.
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