How can I re-find joy in motherhood while balancing the demands of caregiving?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In this episode, I coach Sarah and address the question, “How can I re-find joy in motherhood while balancing the demands of caregiving?” It was important to Sarah to be a stay-at-home mom when her children were little. Now that they are older, Sarah feels less fulfilled in this role and notices this is affecting her relationship with her kids.Sarah and I discuss how household chores and parenting are not synonymous. I suggest that Sarah sit down with her spouse, delegate household chores to ...

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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.
0:45.1	I am so thrilled to welcome Sarah to the podcast today.
0:48.6	Welcome, Sarah.
0:49.9	Thank you.
0:50.5	I'm happy to be here.
0:51.8	Well, I'm happy to have you.
0:53.5	What is your question for me today?
0:55.3	I've been a stay-at-home mom for almost 13 years, and it was really important to me when my little kids were little to be home with them.
1:03.3	It was definitely a conscious choice that I made to be home with them. And now I'm kind of getting to a point where I'm not enjoying it as much.
1:14.0	And I don't know if that's just because it's 13 years of a long time to be doing like
1:20.0	basically the exact same job. But I'm not loving it. And that's now like affecting my relationship with my kids.
1:31.1	And I know that you say that motherhood is a relationship, not a role, but I worry that the
1:40.5	demands of the role as a primary caregiver is negatively affecting my relationships with my kids.
1:47.8	And so I guess my question is like, how can I kind of separate those two?
1:52.5	How can I find joy in like the relationship and role of motherhood while like balancing
1:58.3	the demands of like just the day to day stuff that a primary caregiver has to do.
2:04.2	Okay, great question.
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