Free Yourself from the "Shoulds"
THE AUTISM ADHD PODCAST
Holly Blanc Moses
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Oh! The dreaded "shoulds" You know - those uncomfortable thoughts that keep popping back up and tend to stick around.
All of us experience thoughts like this BUT the good news is that they don't have to feel so heavy.
Join Dr. Claire Nicogossian and me as we breakdown how to identify, understand, and break free of the thoughts that tear us down and get in the way of us living more peaceful lives.
Hugs,
Holly Blanc Moses
The Mom/Psychologist Who Gets It
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the WIRE Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome, Dr. Claire Nicogosian. I'm so glad you're here with us today. I'm so happy to be with you |
| 0:24.9 | today, Holly. So I'm going to introduce you. I know a lot of our listeners and watchers are already |
| 0:30.5 | familiar with your work, but Dr. Claire Nicogosian is a licensed clinical psychologist and a |
| 0:36.9 | clinical instructor of |
| 0:38.0 | psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. She's the author of Mama, You Are Enough, |
| 0:43.8 | How to Create Calm, Joy, and Confidence Within the Chaos of Motherhood, the founder of |
| 0:49.8 | mom's well-being.com, where you can find her her writing and the podcast in session with Dr. Claire. |
| 0:56.8 | Her writing has appeared on Motherly, Scary Mommy, Thrive Global Today, Parenting Team, |
| 1:03.3 | and Huffing and Hoppost. Dr. Claire lives in Rhode Island with her husband and her four daughters. |
| 1:10.2 | So again, welcome to the WIRE |
| 1:12.0 | Differently podcast. Thank you, Holly. That's a nice introduction. That's a great way to start my day. |
| 1:17.3 | Thank you. Wonderful. Well, we're excited you're here and really excited today to talk about |
| 1:24.9 | the shoulds and shadow emotions that come up for parents, for teachers, |
| 1:32.8 | for therapists. We all experience the shoulds, right? It's so true. I think to be human, |
| 1:39.7 | we are just wired to have this sense that we're never doing quite enough and that we should be |
| 1:45.3 | doing something else. And even if our productivity has been really high, it just never seems to, |
| 1:51.4 | you know, meet the mark. So I think there's a lot of pressure we put on ourselves for sure. |
| 1:56.8 | Exactly. So let's talk about some of the common shoulds that a lot of people experience. So let's just throw out some examples. |
| 2:09.8 | Oh, of course. So like in motherhood, I think there's a lot of guilt. So I should be doing more. I am not enough. I'm failing my children at work. You know, |
| 2:21.7 | I could be doing more. I'm not doing enough. I could be failing my clients, my students, |
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