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MOMENT | What it means to be invisible in motherhood with Michelle Kennedy

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week Peanut CEO and founder, Michelle Kennedy, joins us to talk about how motherhood can often lead to us feeling invisible. She examines why mothers can feel unseen and unappreciated and how to overcome it. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ and gain access to a free 60 minute masterclass with Zoe - teaching the core principles of the book. This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk. Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.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

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1:01.2

Plus the first month is free.

1:14.9

Tell me about that word invisible.

1:17.1

Like you've said it a few times.

1:23.3

Invisibility is such a taboo thing to say because feeling invisible is a really difficult admission because is it reflective on you?

1:27.2

Is it reflective on people around you? Is it reflective

1:30.3

on society? What does it actually mean to feel invisible? And there will be moments of our life

1:34.7

when we've all felt it, where we've all had that moment of, yeah, I don't feel seen. Or, you know,

1:41.9

I've been in a meeting. I've been at the school gates, I've been, you know,

1:46.9

wherever, I've been in a bar and we've all had that moment, but they're usually fleeting.

1:52.3

I think what's really interesting to me, particularly around these kind of key womanhood moments,

2:00.5

is those moments of invisibility are longer

2:03.6

lasting and they're compounding because they happen more frequently and they happen sometimes when

2:10.2

you're least expecting it and you have that moment of oh god no one sees me. No one can see either the damage they're causing by

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