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The Therapy Edit

On 5 ways to take control of your to-do list

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Anna shares the common motherhood frustration associated with the never ending to do list and offers listeners 5 suggestions for how to take control of the list and the associated feelings of stress and overwhelm that it can trigger.

Transcript

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

0:37.0

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

0:45.3

Hi there, today you have me chatting away for 10 minutes and I am answering one of your

0:51.4

podcast requests topics.

0:53.4

So this one is, Anna, how do I handle the feeling

0:58.4

that I am never catching up with all I have to do

1:02.4

no matter how hard I try.

1:05.0

Now I've used the term before of like I literally feel like I'm living my days on a treadmill.

1:12.0

But you know when the treadmill is set at a speed that is slightly too high for what you're able to manage. So kind of doing this kind of prancing, flopping about, just flapping about, kind of arms flailing, just trying desperately to keep up, and sometimes I feel like that is how my days feel.

1:32.0

Now I do one thing, I go to empty the washing machine and I see five other things on the way that need doing and then I've got notifications going off the school emails and I've got things sitting on my to do list that I've just been ignoring because I just can't even face them because they feel too mountainous.

1:50.0

You know, and it's that kind of it's that load isn't it? It's that load of stuff and things and then at the end of the day we're also trying amidst all of that to be present with our children, aren't we?

2:05.1

To try and enjoy the good moments to try and slow down and and see the

2:11.1

intricacies of a time that goes so fast to kind of try and catch hold of it for a moment to try and absorb it for a moment, but it is really hard.

2:21.2

So here are some tips on how to handle that feeling that we're never

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