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Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me psych therapist Anna Martha.

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being.

Hi everyone I hope you're okay. I am going to speak to you today about five ways to mother yourself. I did a little post on Instagram, a

short video and I was in the kitchen and I was cradling my three-year-old now she hasn't wanted to be picked up and held like that for a long time but it took me back to those kind of early months where you know babies just don't want to be put down and you were

trying to juggle I think I was trying to sort breakfast out for the boys and I just oh it

was just hiring the kids have been ill I wasn't feeling 100% and it was one of those moments where you think oh my goodness I I just feel like I would love a parent come an adult to come and step in right now but you realize that you are that only adult you are the only parent there and you just you have no choice but to get on with it and what I said in that post was that we are mothers, we are strong, we are

vulnerable, we need mothering to. Strong and vulnerable, they seem so contradictory, don't they? But we are both those things. We are incredibly strong. I think you can probably look over your own motherhood, your own life and think of those times that you journey through that there was every

fibre of your being was like I cannot I cannot do this and yet you did so we are we are so strong

and we are also incredibly vulnerable. We have all of those feelings.

We don't I think I just thought when I had kids that happiness and the joy and the privilege would be enough so that I

wouldn't feel the fear and the anxiety and the irritability and the anger and

you know is feeling claustrophobic sometimes in my own life, and I don't know why I just had this fantasy that those feelings wouldn't really be there.

And of course we're people, we're moms, we're humans, we're going to have all these different kinds of feelings and sometimes we just feel vulnerable, we just feel young.

We feel like there's that little girl inside of us who just want someone to

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