Dealing With Insecurity As A Mom: Episode 384
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Oh, you bought THAT carseat? Your third grader has a cell phone? Wow, you really give your kids freedom! No moms we know are immune from feeling judged, or criticized, or called out by comments from others (even if it’s mostly in our heads!). In Episode 384 Meagan and Sarah discuss our own insecurities and vulnerabilities when it comes to parenting. We share our specific insecurity triggers, plus offer ideas for what to think about BEFORE your insecurities get activated, what to say IN THE MOMENT when someone makes a comment, and what to remember AFTER you’ve had an experience that makes you feel judged. We hope you find this conversation comforting; you are not alone!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from |
| 0:05.2 | little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages |
| 0:09.0 | of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share |
| 0:12.7 | tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're |
| 0:16.6 | not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey everyone and welcome to episode 384 of the mom hour. I am Sarah Powers here |
| 0:28.6 | with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hi Sarah. We have kind of a big topic today. We're |
| 0:34.0 | talking about feeling insecure in our parenting, feeling sometimes judged or |
| 0:40.2 | criticized. How to manage those feelings when they come up for us and like how |
| 0:44.8 | to kind of move through the process of I guess that feeling of insecurity. |
| 0:50.7 | Megan, I feel like this is a lifelong journey that is not about like never, never |
| 0:56.3 | feeling criticized or never having an experience where you feel like someone is |
| 0:59.2 | judging you, but almost building that kind of foundational confidence that you |
| 1:03.6 | can fall back on when it happens. So I don't know. We're gonna, we have a lot to |
| 1:08.0 | discuss today. We do and we've talked on this show several times about dealing |
| 1:12.8 | with criticism, feeling judged specifically, but I feel like it's a |
| 1:16.5 | through line in in mom life, right? And it doesn't go away when you have adult |
| 1:21.7 | kids. You still worry what other people think you still worry if you did |
| 1:27.6 | everything, you know, as right as possible or if there's going to be some |
| 1:31.2 | mistake they make or something that's going to reflect on you. It doesn't go |
| 1:34.4 | away and it always, I think it always comes back to when whether they're babies |
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