On how to ask for help without the guilt
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
She considers the reason that many mums find it so challenging to accept offers of help, rest and respite and how we can identify genuine offers of help that are given willingly and get better at saying 'yes please.'
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me psych therapist Anna Martha. |
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| 0:45.0 | I'm going to encourage and support your emotional well-being. Hi, welcome to today's episode of the therapy edit. |
| 0:48.0 | It's just me today and I'm going to talk about |
| 0:51.0 | how to not feel guilty or not feel so guilty or how to address the guilt that |
| 0:57.4 | often arises when we're asking for support or when we're offered support because we know or at least hopefully we know if you've |
| 1:07.2 | listened to enough of my chattering away that that we need support we're deserving of support we simply cannot and are not |
| 1:16.7 | designed to do this thing called motherhood alone but if you know I think one of the |
| 1:22.0 | biggest challenges is that even when that support is there |
| 1:27.2 | guilt can feel like a barrier to actually accepting it or asking for it. So if you recognize that feeling, then this is for you. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm going to give you some thoughts. So it's that knowledge I think first of all that parenting is and we know about the village and that's that's such a tricky one isn't it because so many people feel like they don't have a village or if they do it's hard to actually |
| 1:54.8 | access it or perhaps you've turned for support and it's not been there. |
| 1:59.9 | So that wall goes up and we want to protect ourselves by not asking for again. |
| 2:04.3 | Perhaps you have a narrative that you need to be doing this all on your own. This is |
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