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MOMENT | "Your children need a model, not a martyr" Here's how to make the shift, with Glennon Doyle

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 13 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, we are joined by author Glennon Doyle. This is an incredible episode rich in insight. Glennon talks about the damaging legacy of martyrdom in motherhood and why you should model to your children how to live life fully, rather than sacrificing yourself. For more powerful insights from Glennon Doyle, listen to the full episode here: How to be a model, not a martyr 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. 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

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0:12.3

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about saving, tax, earning and even how to spot online scams. I am obsessed with my

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1:05.3

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1:20.8

A responsible mother is not one slowly dying for her children, but showing them how to bravely live. I stopped being a martyr

1:30.2

and started being a model. That is on another level. It's so fascinating, right? It's like,

1:37.2

I started figuring that language out. You know, I almost stayed in my broken marriage. I almost,

1:43.2

I fell in love with Abby and then I really almost just abandoned myself again.

1:47.3

Yeah.

1:47.9

Because I was so tamed to believe that a good mother just doesn't ever do anything to hurt her children.

1:55.0

That a good mother, we have this thing that we say without thinking about it because it actually doesn't make any sense that we need to put our children's needs above our own.

2:04.6

Oh, I hate that. Yes.

2:06.6

As if it's a hierarchy, as if our children's needs aren't exactly the same as ours.

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