On how to navigate difficult parenting moments

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

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

4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes as a mother, you'll find yourself at a loss as to what the next step can be and how you can move your family out of a moment in time into a calmer, happier environment where you all feel in control. Sometimes there is just no control to be had.

And in this episode I share my tips for managing those moments and how to handle the feeling that you don't have the answers or the strength to navigate through.

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0:30.0	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.
0:45.0	Hi everyone, welcome to today's episode of the therapy edit.
0:50.0	I want to share with you a moment that happened yesterday. It was a moment actually I shared
0:55.3	on my Instagram and got so many people sharing their stories and response so I thought I would share it with you. It's one for those times where as a parent you just think, oh my goodness, I actually don't know what to do right now. I wish there was a parent. I wish there was a parent I wish there was an adult who could step in and help
1:16.6	guide me through this it's yeah those moments where you just want to throw your
1:21.8	hands in the air and say,
1:23.0	I've got nothing, I feel like I don't even know where to start with how to navigate this situation.
1:29.0	And it's something that occurred to me in that moment because there was simply nothing else I could do that I'm going to take forward and remember next time that moment occurs, which it will come again. We all have those times. So yesterday, it's Easter holidays now, as I'm recording this. I took three very tired children into town to just go and pick up some essentials.
1:57.0	I think I bought some milk, I had milk in a bag, just some heavy things in a bag, and I'd promised them that they could choose an ice cream at this
2:07.2	little news agent so they all chose their ice creams and they ate them happily on a bench.
2:11.6	So happily I even took a photo because it was the
2:14.2	sweetest moment anyway it all went awry very quickly after that as it so often can
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