Hey,

welcome back it's Sarah and Whitney.

So today we're gonna work on our toolbox for moms.

That's right.

So with this toolbox moms, this is a shorter episode.

These are meant to give you tools to literally be a better mom, be a better.

You were talking about the things that you need for your mental health.

Absolutely.

And I don't care what stage of motherhood you're in. Yep. You're a person you need these. Oh, for sure. Okay. The first one today, Whitney, we're going to talk about is triggers. Okay. What are they? What do we do with them? So triggers can be anything that cause you to feel more anxious?

Angry, snippy, frustrated down, maybe some self-doubt coming into play there.

So a trigger is anything that kind of causes you to feel not yourself.

Okay.

So for me personally, I'm going to tell myself here,

one of my triggers is when my toddler throws her food at the table.

Drives me up a wall, I automatically feel frustrated and I'm constantly like can you not just do what you're supposed to do in each food instead of throwing it.

So that is a trigger for me and I know that. So I also know she is at that stage where it is cause

and effect. She wants to throw her food to see what happens. Yeah. She's not throwing

it to make me mad. Right. I feel that way, but that's not what she's doing.

That's not her intent or her motive. So now I know going into

Mealtimes, she's probably going to throw something.

She's probably going to throw something.

So now I know going into it that's probably going to happen,

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