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MOMENT | Stop trying to control everything, and get your energy back with Laura Brand

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This week's Motherkind moment is with the amazing Laura Brand. She is a mum of 2 and the author of 3 incredible books. Her newest book is called 'Slow Down and Be Here Now'. A gorgeous book about nature and how it can help us slow down and be more present. Come engage with Zoe and 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 by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What are you like as a mother? You talked about surrendering. And I heard you talk about this on another

0:08.4

podcast around that tendency that we can have as mothers to want to sort of micromanage and control

0:14.3

and be in everything. And you had this experience, didn't you? Where you couldn't do that.

0:19.0

Tell us about that and what that brought up for you.

0:21.6

Well, it's funny. I was just talking about it before this conversation because I was telling someone

0:26.2

a relatively new friend, actually, that didn't know me at the time where my back was the biggest

0:32.1

part of my life. And I actually said, God, before I met you, my bad back was my identity.

0:37.4

I was literally like a bad back was my identity.

0:43.2

I was literally like a person who was just hunched forward and limping and couldn't sit up.

0:47.2

And everything was just a problem because I was just in so much pain all the time.

0:51.6

And I'm over, ordinarily over everything in the household.

0:56.6

So I'm over the kids, what they eat, the family. I'm over what everybody kind of does. I mean, I think my husband just trusts that I'm like quite a good

1:02.1

at decision making around that stuff. We do talk about most things together. Well, we do talk

1:06.4

everything together in terms of how we want to raise them and things like that. But I can be

1:11.5

quite controlling around stuff. And I think it's to everybody's benefit at times, to be honest with

1:17.0

you, because otherwise you can see like, oh God, yeah, if they don't go to bed at a certain time,

1:21.5

we know we're dealing with that a week later or whatever, you know. So I would say that

1:27.1

although the one area I don't micromanages arts and crafts,

1:31.0

which is lucky because I did write a book on that, I'm quite relaxed about that stuff,

1:34.9

much more so than my husband who just gets absolutely like, oh my God, they've got scissors.

1:39.9

Oh, no.

1:40.8

I'm very relaxed about them finding their own creative flow and stuff, which does result

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