How can I find the courage to have a baby when I am not sure I would be able to handle it?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Rachel and addresses the question "How can I find the courage to have a baby when I am not sure I would be able to handle it?" Rachel expresses feeling she either has to be a good parent or be good at her career, and fears that she won’t be able to do both at the same time. During this episode, Dr. Hanks shares that having a baby will change her life, but her life won’t be over. She helps Rachel identify that if she is mindful, thoughtful, and plans we...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I'm thrilled to welcome Rachel to the podcast today.
0:48.5	Welcome, Rachel.
0:50.0	Hi.
0:51.1	Thanks for being here.
0:52.8	Yeah, I'm so excited. You're like a celebrity to me.
0:56.5	You need to get out more. What is your question for me today?
1:02.4	Okay. My question is, how can I have the courage to have a baby when I feel like I am my own baby?
1:10.2	Okay. Do you have any children currently? I don't. No.
1:13.9	I don't have any. Okay. And when you say you're your own baby, what do you mean? I feel like I'm a lot to
1:21.2	take care of. I feel like, I feel like a need to be in control of a lot of variables in my life so that things go the way I want them to.
1:32.4	And I feel like a child throws so many new variables into your life that I don't know that I would be able to handle it all.
1:43.0	Yeah.
1:43.5	Yeah.
1:44.0	I mean, I think I would survive, but it's scary to me.
1:48.3	Yeah.
1:49.1	It should be scary.
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