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Ep 230 - World-leading happiness expert: why getting your needs met is critical to your children's happiness with Dr. Rick Hanson

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is with one of our favourite guests, Dr. Rick Hanson. He is a world-leading psychologist and leading expert on happiness, relationships and motherhood. His latest book Making great relationships is brilliant. He wrote his first book, Mother Nurture, over 20 years ago after seeing the emotional and physical toll of motherhood on his wife and the lack of support and recognition from society. If you haven’t listened to my first episode with Dr. Rick, I suggest you give it a listen after this one. You can find it here. SPECIAL THANKS TO THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR Thanks to Explore Learning. Explore Learning are the leaders in personalised learning. They help children learn at a pace and level that is unique to them using an adaptive curriculum. Tuition is available in 95 Ofsted-registered, vibrant learning centres throughout the uk or online at Explore Learning. If you want to help your child unlock the joy of learning then you can save £50 at Explore Learning from 14th - 25th of February. Go to Explore Learning @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:38.2

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0:46.0

Hey everyone and welcome to Motherkind, the show that's going to help you navigate the massive

0:52.6

challenges of life as a modern mother with more

0:55.6

community, confidence, clarity and self-awareness. I'm your host, Zoe Blaski. I believe the most

1:02.1

important and inspiring thing we can do for our children is to become the most empowered,

1:06.5

resilient and authentic versions of ourselves. And this podcast exists to help you do just that.

1:13.9

This week is a returning guest.

1:15.9

It is one of our favorites, Dr. Rick Hansen.

1:18.9

Dr. Rick is a world-leading psychologist.

1:22.6

He is a leading expert on happiness, relationships, and motherhood.

1:27.0

His first book, over 20 years ago, relationships and motherhood. His first book over 20 years ago was called

1:31.2

Mother Nurture, which he wrote after seeing the emotional and physical toll of motherhood on his

1:39.2

wife and the lack of support from society and the lack of recognition of the profoundly important job of motherhood.

1:48.1

I first spoke to Rick exactly a year ago and his compassionate, direct words on how important

1:54.4

we are as mothers and yet how undervalued we are had a massive impact on me. And I know with you too, because it was

2:03.0

one of our most popular episodes from last year. So this episode, Rick and I think about our

2:10.4

needs as mothers, why it can be so hard as mothers to get our needs met and how to change that.

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