DEEP DIVE: Mom Rage

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This Deep Dive series is all about why motherhood is so gosh darn hard. Turns out there are sociopolitical forces at play that make motherhood way harder than it needs to be. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify. "Mom rage" is a thing, and it feels shameful because it feels so far from where we are supposed to be as mothers and as women. Writer Anne Lamott called it "a closely guarded secret, as if the myth of maternal bliss is so sacrosanct that we can't even admit these feelings to ourselves." But it's more universal than we admit, and its triggers more predictable. There are also practical ways we can all recognize it sooner when it might be building within ourselves. In this episode, we discuss: How a "sequence of provocations" can dramatically increase anger Why lack of sleep is a major cause of mom rage Things that work to lengthen our fuses If you found this episode useful, here are some other episodes of ours you might listen to next: Fresh Take: Carla Naumburg Tells Us How To Stop Losing It With Our Kids (May 2021) Sometimes We Lose It (Dec 2018) How to Yell Less (Dec 2024) Here are links to some of the resources we mentioned in the episode: @momuninterrupted on Instagram: "Nighttime Parenting" Anne Lamott for Salon: "Mother Rage: Theory and Practice" Pallavi Pundir for Vice: ‘It’s Like I Was Possessed’: Women Reveal the Deepest, Darkest Moments of Their ‘Mom Rage’ Minna Dubin for The New York Times: "The Rage Mothers Don’t Talk About" Minna Dubin for The New York Times: ‘I Am Going to Physically Explode’: Mom Rage in a Pandemic NBC Boston: What Is Mom Rage? Why Are So Many Women Feeling It? Mairead Heffron for Image: The secret rage of motherhood: ‘I never imagined that my child could be both the trigger and target of my anger’ 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, toddler, baby, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, mom blame, mom rage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My insides had been like scraped out with an ice cream scooper.
0:06.0	What fresh hell.
0:07.9	Laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:10.5	I'm here from 1842 to say I'm in high dungeon.
0:14.7	With Margaret Aples and Amy Wilson.
0:18.0	It's like visiting Shawshank.
0:19.4	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
0:24.9	Please hold my crying baby.
0:31.3	Hello, everyone, and welcome to what fresh hell laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:35.4	This is Margaret.
0:36.3	And this is Amy.
0:37.0	And today we're talking about mom rage. We're raging in the face of motherhood. This is Margaret. And this is Amy. And today we're talking about
0:38.5	mom rage. We're raging in the face of motherhood today. We're not laughing. I mean, hopefully we'll
0:43.6	be laughing some, but we're also raging in the face of motherhood. I was kind of surprised that we
0:47.9	haven't actually talked about this already. I had to go check, but we haven't. I mean, we haven't. We haven't. We haven't episode level focused, but it's a
0:55.7	thread that's run through it. It's a good one. And it's something that I see come up a lot on the
1:00.4	Facebook group, which is Facebook.com slash group slash what fresh hellcast. And I feel like there's a lot of
1:07.7	posting that is I have made a terrible mistake in my parenting by getting
1:13.2	very, very angry with my children and that people feel a ton of shame and guilt around that.
1:20.7	Yes. And I think we need to talk about it. And I'm glad we're talking about it today. I have
1:24.8	had some pretty low moments with mom rage myself. Right. We can relate. I lost it and screamed at my two-year-old, then told my husband to take her
1:44.7	into the other room so I could calm down. Good for you. She had been having a tantrum and got rough
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