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MOMENT | Your energy is precious - how to stop saying yes when you don’t want to with Helen Marie

The Motherkind Podcast

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Motherkind Moment is your place for calm and connection and a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Psychotherapist and author Helen Marie sits down with Zoe to talk about the power of saying 'no'. Here they discuss why setting boundaries can make us feel anxious, why it's good to start small, and why setting boundaries can become a life-changing skill. Click here to pre-order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations' You can find more information on the book here https://www.motherkind.co/book This show is proudly sponsored by Stokke We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/Motherkind for £100 sponsored credit. With thanks to MATCH Hospitality at Silverstone Circuit for supporting this episode. To discover more visit The Racing Green and use code MOTHERKIND10 for a 10% discount.  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod 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

I wanted to talk to you about boundaries.

0:10.0

Yes, of course.

0:11.0

Because something that's in your incredible new book,

0:15.0

you've got this amazing chapter called Energy,

0:17.0

and in there, you really dive into boundaries.

0:19.0

And it's something that I'm asked about, and I love to to talk about so much because I think without boundaries in motherhood you are likely to

0:26.3

feel overwhelmed and burn out but it's so hard yeah particularly if you've not particularly

0:34.8

if you've been raised as a good girl or as a pleaser or to tend to

0:39.2

other people's feelings to say no or this doesn't work for me or we're doing it this way or i hear you

0:45.1

but sorry it's really hard it's really hard especially to learn when you're probably already

0:51.8

disregulated and exhausted. I know.

0:54.8

And you've done years of being that way of a people pleaser or the good girl and then suddenly

1:01.1

you're meant to change.

1:02.4

Yeah.

1:02.8

It's really difficult, really challenging.

1:05.2

Because I think so many mothers say to me, I get it so.

1:07.7

Like I get why I need boundaries.

1:09.5

I can see why I'm saying yes, I mean, no. I can see I'm

1:12.1

doing too much, but I just can't seem to get across the line. I hear that a lot too. And one of the

1:18.6

pieces of work I do with clients, I mean, it's all linked. You've already said it's already linked

1:23.5

into those old inner scripts of people pleasing, a sense of self, you know, whether we have a

1:31.9

secure sense of ourself and belief in ourselves, self-worth, who are we to think that we can put

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