MOMENT | The "good mother" narrative is damaging: here's why with Beth Berry

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This week’s Moment is with Beth Berry. Beth is a coach, author of Motherwhelmed and mother to four daughters. She says we can’t afford to pretend to love motherhood. Not this version of it. The version that has us raising our kids alone in our homes, disconnected from one another, immersed in a culture of judgment and perfectionism under the allusion that we are the ones who can’t get our act together. I hope today's Moment inspires you this week. 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: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Beth, I wanted to ask you about something that you wrote, which was motherhood has proven the catalyst for emotional and spiritual growth in ways I never imagined. And every member of my family is better for it.
0:23.6	And I thought it would be really powerful to start there.
0:25.6	What did you mean by that?
0:27.9	And can you unpack that?
0:29.7	I guess it's quite a bold statement.
0:35.2	So my children, I would consider my greatest spiritual teachers.
0:39.5	They have certainly matured me more than anyone else or any other experience. Parenting has matured me more than any experience I've lived. And I would say that
0:47.1	at every turn, at every milestone in their growth and development and my own, there have been
0:53.9	new challenges, new lessons,
0:57.0	new opportunities to choose to grow or choose to numb or be sort of mired in frustration and
1:05.6	anger over some injustice that I see in the system or some parenting frustration, I've chosen growth over
1:14.6	and over and over again, and I've just been blown away by how many growth opportunities
1:21.5	have come with motherhood that are just not even mentioned. You know, no one talks about,
1:26.4	the parenting manual we never got to begin with,
1:29.5	but we certainly don't talk about motherhood enough as a path that transforms us and turns us
1:38.6	into what I believe to be some of the most powerful potential healers on the planet because we're sort of being
1:45.9	put through these initiations over and over and over again.
1:49.7	What are you going to do with this one?
1:50.9	How about this one?
1:52.0	Here's another one.
1:53.9	They have certainly taught me so much about myself.
1:57.8	And I think that some of the biggest lessons have been around being
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