On untangling feelings of failure

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

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

4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

I share a thought on why we feel like we're failing sometimes. It's a philosophical one, about how motherhood is a role, but it is also an identity.

As mothers, when we feel like we are failing, the feeling can hit a little harder sometimes, because it can feel less to do with getting a role a bit wrong sometimes, and more to do with who we are! I untangle this a little in this episode.

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0:44.0	Hi, welcome to today's solo episode of the therapy edit.
0:49.0	I hope you are okay, whether you're listening on a quick walk or on a dog walk or with a buggy.
0:57.0	I love imagining what you'll be doing as you listen to this.
1:02.0	I have got a little philosophical thoughts on guilt today and actually came from a moment last night sitting on the safe
1:13.7	my husband walked in from work and I felt I felt this wave of jealousy and I
1:19.1	wanted to unpick that so I'm going to share that with you. But first of all I wanted to remind you that my new
1:26.2	book, The Little Book of Calm for New Mums is out really, really soon and it's full of little kind of pep talks.
1:35.0	Every emotion in that early kind of intense stage of motherhood
1:39.0	I've written a couple of pages for.
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1:46.9	just flick to that page and you've got some just warm compassionate words. So I really
1:52.2	encourage you if you're in the thick of it yourself or if you've got a friend that is
1:57.1	always about to be to pre-order that and I promise you it has so many words of wisdom and support in there that I needed. I think often
2:06.6	as authors we write the books that we needed. I want to give you what I needed. So yes, that's that's so back onto this moment of guilt. So I had a really hard day with the kids yesterday. It was just one of those days where the
2:26.1	tantrums were rolling in like waves. Everything, you know, would go from happy to chaotic
2:32.4	and loud and just total chaos in the matter of moments.
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