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The Therapy Edit

One Thing with Shakira Akabusi on relieving motherhood stress

The Therapy Edit

Anna Mathur

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

4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Anna chats to mum on a mission, Shakira Akabusi about relinquishing control as a mum and learning to roll with the punches and adapt to every new situation that you find yourself in.

Shakira is a mum of four, working to shatter the Stereotype around mother, in particular pre and postnatal health, including physical and mental wellbeing.

You can find out more about Shakira on her website www.stronglikemum.com and follow her on Instagram at @shakira.akabusi

You can buy her book 'The Strong Like Mum Method: Awaken the power of your pre and postnatal body through instinct, knowledge and exercise' at
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strong-Like-Mum-Method-postnatal/dp/1472146581/ref=zg_bsnr_270766_49?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=716Q2XFN9PQDJCSXT4E2

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:19.7

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0:25.8

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0:31.3

Hello and welcome to The Therapy Edit with me psych therapists mom of three and author Anna Martha

0:37.0

every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere.

0:46.3

So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom.

0:50.3

I hope you enjoy it.

0:52.3

Hello everyone, welcome to today's episode of the Therapy Edit.

0:57.0

Today is a guest episode and I'm really excited because I have with me today a friend, I'd say a friend that I had met through both a friend and on the squares almost simultaneously.

1:08.7

So Shakira Acabousie, I have here with me today, she is a mum of four. She runs the Strong Like

1:15.0

Mom Movement in the UK. She's a women's health specialist and you can follow

1:19.7

on Instagram and just see her kind of working out around her four children and showing us

1:24.5

that it is that it is possible to be strong like her mom. She has a book coming

1:29.2

out the strong like mom method and it's about awakening the power of your pre-imposed

1:34.6

natal body through instinct, knowledge and exercise and she is an all-round gem.

1:39.8

A gem and a juggler, oh my goodness, Kirra, the juggle.

1:45.0

How are you today amidst it all?

1:47.0

Oh, good, thank you.

1:48.0

I thought you were going to introduce me as like,

1:50.0

this is a friend who's invited herself over on numerous occasions.

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