MOMENT | How to heal your deepest wounds with Gabor Maté

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Dr. Gabor Maté. I am sure you know of him. He is a renowned addiction expert, speaker and author and sought after for his expertise on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development. This is one of the most powerful conversations I have ever had on the podcast. It is still the most downloaded ever to date. In this Moment, he talks about why it is so hard to be a mother today and why it is our profound responsibility to keep being curious about our own behaviour on this remarkable journey of motherhood. For more powerful insights from Gabor Maté, listen to the full episode here. Get your free 3 days of 5-minute Motherkind here - 21 days to reset your energy, mood and mindset. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Go Henry, the money app and debit card that grows your kids
0:05.8	money smarts as they learn to earn, save, spend and invest their money from age six to 18.
0:12.3	Both my girls love their Go Henry cards. They have set tasks each week that they need to do
0:17.8	for pocket money and through the easy to use app, a check it's done
0:21.2	and transfer the money. It makes pocket money so easy and transparent to manage. The other thing I
0:27.2	love about GoHenry is the educational videos. So by age and level, the girls are learning
0:33.8	about saving, tax, earning and even how to spot online scams. I am obsessed with my
0:41.3	girls being financially educated and I love how easy Go Henry is making it. Exclusive to
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1:20.6	Do you think this is the hardest time to be a mother?
1:23.7	Right now?
1:24.3	Yeah.
1:25.2	I know we're not at war.
1:26.7	We're not.
1:27.0	We're not at war. And I don't know what it's like to be a mother doing Britain as industrialization times with long hours at factories and all that.
1:36.7	So, I mean, but let me tell you this, that since the Second World War, this is the hardest time to be a mother.
1:43.9	Because after the Second World War, there was for a while a sense of joint purpose and commonality.
1:50.3	And there was much more of a social network to support people.
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