Episode 656: The Mental Load, Boundaries, and Self-Compassion with Dr. Kat Kaeni

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

“You just need to ask for help!” Sure, sounds easy—until you actually try to do it. This week, we’re tackling the real reasons setting boundaries is hard and why the mental load still falls disproportionately on women. My guest, Dr. Kat Kaeni, is a perinatal mental health-certified psychologist and host of the podcast Mom & Mind. She’s here to break down how our conditioning keeps us stuck in burnout mode and what we can do to shift out of it. We talk about the mental weight of keeping everything running and why self-compassion and boundaries aren’t just fluffy concepts—they’re essential for protecting your peace and wellbeing. What you’ll hear: The truth about boundaries and why they’re so hard to keep (5:55) How shame and self-compassion affect mental health (20:38) Strategies to help you improve your overall mental well-being, today (30:25) Why the mental load tends to fall on women and what to do about it (33:08) Resources: Sign up for my email list Dr. Kat Kaeni’s website Book recommendations: I love a good personal development book, and you do too, right? I’ve compiled a list of book recommendations, as mentioned in past episodes. Check out these amazing book recommendations here. Happy reading! MSN is supported by: We love the sponsors that make our show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: andreaowen.com/sponsors/ Episode link: http://andreaowen.com/656 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	You're listening to Makes a Noise Podcast episode number 656 with guest Dr. Kat Kianney.
1:01.1	Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:06.9	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007,
1:12.8	an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize
1:18.1	unshakable confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.
1:32.6	Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the podcast i am so glad that you're here happy february in this what already feels like a very long year we're only we're only on the
1:39.2	second month of it and i wanted to before we get into the show I wanted to make a couple of exciting announcements, I think.
1:47.9	One of them is that I'm turning 50 soon.
1:50.1	I am coming around the corner fast.
1:52.8	I have so much gratitude in my heart, love in my heart, excitement for what I'm going to bring you this year that I'm turning
2:02.8	50. One of those things is a 10-part podcast series. I'm doing it all on my own. I'm going to be
2:09.4	reflecting on the last many, many years, more specifically, the years of personal development that I've been doing. And the last two years
2:22.5	specifically have been incredibly accelerated in terms of my own growth. I haven't shared that much
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