How will I know when I’m ready to have a baby?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Alicia and addresses the question, “How will I know when I’m ready to have a baby?” Part of Alicia’s family story or mythology is “having kids means giving up your own desires and being unhappy.” With this perspective, it is easy to see how fear may get in the way of being able to make a decision about when to have a child.During this episode, Dr. Hanks shares with Alicia that she doesn’t ever need to step away from her personhood, ever. Having childre...

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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
0:23.3	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
0:35.0	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.8	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.2	with tools to find healing.
0:45.5	So excited to welcome Alicia to the show today.
0:48.8	Welcome, Alicia.
0:50.3	Thank you.
0:51.2	I'm excited to be here.
0:52.8	Thanks for being on the podcast. So what is your question for me today?
0:57.9	Okay. So it's kind of a big year for me. This summer, I will in June, celebrate my 10-year wedding anniversary.
1:06.0	And in August, I turn 30.
1:08.0	It is a big year.
1:10.7	Yeah, so it's a big year and a big anniversary. And also in May, I turned 30. Woohoo. It is a big year. Yeah.
1:11.1	So it's a big year and a big anniversary.
1:13.5	And also in May, I just graduated with my graduate degree.
1:16.5	So it's like a lot of monuments all at once.
1:19.7	And being an LDS woman of a certain age, kids, the questions about kids are coming up.
1:26.2	I don't have any right now.
1:29.0	And that's by choice.
1:37.2	And inevitably, the question always comes up like, what are you waiting for? And the answer is, I don't really know, but I felt very clearly like waiting was the right choice. But it could be
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