Exploring Expectations on Mothers and Women with Ashley Audrain - The Push
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of psychological drama, joins Linda and Drew At Home to talk about her first novel, The Push. The book is about a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she had hoped for and, instead, everything she feared. Ashley talks about how she made a career change when her motherhood journey began and how, through her book’s characters, she challenged the “perfect” picture of being a mom which taught her to be more empathetic towards mothers whose experiences fall outside of the “norm”. The Push book dives into topics of societal expectations on women, generational trauma and how love and fear are deeply intertwined.
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Listen/ Read the bestselling novel, The Push
https://ashleyaudrain.com/the-push/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Hi, hi, hi. Happy Tuesday. Is it Tuesday already? It's Tuesday already. Yes. It's, it's |
| 0:08.4 | 2021, Drewby. This is Linda. And Drew and I was going to say we are at home. We are at home and |
| 0:16.1 | this is at home. And we thank you for joining us. This is a show where we chat with artists, experts, |
| 0:21.4 | leaders, dreamers and doers on the impact they're creating in the world starting right here |
| 0:25.6 | at home. This is our chance to learn more about our relationships with ourselves, our communities, |
| 0:31.2 | and the planet. That's our big home. Yes, our shared home. Because we truly do believe |
| 0:36.4 | that any difference we want to make out there, it does start wherever we are with ourselves right at home. |
| 0:45.6 | It feels quite cold. |
| 0:49.7 | All right, Jabs, tell me about your week. |
| 0:51.5 | This has been a good week. |
| 0:53.2 | It's actually one of those weeks that feels like bricks are coming off shoulders because we had a few therapy sessions. |
| 0:58.7 | Oh, wow, you didn't tell me that's how you felt right after the therapy session. |
| 1:03.5 | That's major. |
| 1:04.4 | I mean, that's a good thing. |
| 1:05.5 | It is a good thing. |
| 1:06.2 | Okay, well, maybe they were really light, fluffy bricks. |
| 1:08.3 | But, you know, it was really nice. I mean, I feel you and I are good communicators, |
| 1:12.2 | but obviously we still have our arguments |
| 1:13.9 | and we still butt heads. |
| 1:15.2 | And I think it's just really good |
| 1:16.3 | to have someone else in the room |
| 1:17.6 | who's a really great communicator |
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