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

I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and

support your emotional well-being.

Hi and welcome to today's episode of the therapy edit.

This is just a solo one, so it's just me sharing something for the next 10 minutes.

And I wanted to share a thought with you

about how often we question our identity as moms.

You know, we might think back to pre-kids who we were what we enjoyed what it felt like to be

us and wonder where and how that all changed where where did we go where have I gone amidst all amidst

amidst everything that I'm doing each day and everything that I'm

facilitating for the kids.

So I have picked up my book, The Little Book of Calm, the New Mums, and I'm going to read the section to you.

Because basically all the sections are in response, just a few pages in response to different feelings and states that you might be experiencing.

So I'm going to read you the one that says who am I for the moments where you're just

wondering where if I gone and the little mantra, so each chapter has mantra,

says, now is not forever.

We know that, don't we?

We know that now is just a moment in time and it's not forever but sometimes the feelings

the the challenges that we're experiencing are so kind of feeling so all-encompassing

and so intense that we can lose that sense of perspective.

You know, it's like the peak of a labor contraction, you know, where you just feel like in

there are moments where you feel like it's never going to be normal again, you're never going to feel okay again.

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