Hello and welcome to this community episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am your host, Zoe,

where every Friday I chat to you, one of our lovely community, our listeners about your experiences

in motherhood. This week I chat to Deborah about her experiences of being blindsided by

motherhood and how she's overcome anxiety and intrusive thoughts to feel quite differently today.

We do chat about intrusive thoughts in some detail. If you think that might be more harmful

than helpful for you, then please do skip this

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Oh, Deborah, I'm so excited to chat to you this morning.

Thank you for having me. You are welcome. I'm so excited for people to hear your wisdom and your story and I just love it. I love these community episodes. I keep saying it. I just absolutely,

I absolutely love it. So thank you for being here. Well, I'm really honoured. I'm a massive

podcast listener and yours is right out there at the top of the list. So I'm just, yeah,

I've really honoured to be here. Whereabouts are you? Tell everyone where you are just so they can get a

cent. I live in Bedfordshire.

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