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Welcome to this episode of Motherkind with me, your host Zoe Blaskey, sponsored by Stoker.

This week we have another community episode for you. This is the first one we've actually done this year,

where one of our incredible Motherkind community shares their story. This week is the story of

Emily. I was so inspired by

Emily's story. She is a young mum. She has faced unbelievable challenges with her daughter.

And yet, she is just a complete message of optimism and opportunity and self-compassion.

I cannot wait for you to hear it. Here it is.

Emily, I'm so excited to welcome you to this community episode of Motherkind. We had a chat

before, was it a couple of months ago? And it was just absolutely

delightful. You left me feeling inspired and smiling, so I can't wait to share, or to hear

what you're going to share with our audience today. Thank you for having me on. Tell us a little bit.

Where are you? Tell us about your children. So I'm 22 at the minute. I'm in my final year of university. I'm studying clinical psychology.

And I have a four and a half year old, nearly five, which should be five in March. So not many people I know in my situation, but yeah, we're just kind of, I don't know what

the word is, trying to manage the journey because she's had a lot of health complications

in the past and she still has them. So we're just trying to kind of juggle that and find our

way through everything that life has kind of

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