Hey everyone and welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast with me, your host, Zoe Blaski.

I am so happy you are here with me this week because this episode is talking about one of my favourite subjects and words ever.

That word is matressence and the word describes the process of

becoming a mother and I'm so passionate about this word because it describes the discombobulating,

confusing, cocktail of emotions that happens when we become a mother. When we make that transition

from woman to mother, it describes what happens to us physically, emotionally, spiritually,

hormonally, all the changes that we go through. And it says that just like adolescence,

just like when we become an adult from a

teenager, it's meant to be a bumpy time, a time of questioning ourselves, questioning everything.

And the reason I'm so passionate about it is because had I known that word, had we known that

word when we became mothers, I think I would have found it so much easier to be

kind to myself. Had I known it was going to be a bumpy journey, it's meant to be a bumpy journey.

I would have been far better prepared and I would have been so much more gentler on myself.

I feel so passionately that we need

to get this word out to more and more mothers. So this week's episode is with Lucy Jones.

She is an investigative journalist and an award-winning author and she has just written a new

book called Matressens, which is what we talk

about on this episode. This episode is going to make you see your position as a mother in today's

society completely differently. I promise you, after listening to this, you are going to give

yourself a break and go easier on yourself. I hope you enjoy it. Here it is.

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