SAHM Week: I've Lost My Sense of Self-Worth
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11. Charlotte welcome to the program. |
| 0:13.3 | Yeah. Hello. Hi. What can I do for you, Charlotte? I'm nervous. I mean, I guess maybe I just need a different way for somebody to explain it to me that it's okay. |
| 0:26.3 | I went from a career mom independent working 15 hour days to being married, moving to a smaller community and being a state home mom. |
| 0:37.3 | And why that's a lot of change. It's a lot of change. Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah. And I essentially attached my value to being financially supportive and contributing that way. |
| 0:47.3 | And I'm not stop stop stop. Then children and old people and people who are retired have no value. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay. I didn't think about it that way. Well, you need to start thinking about it that way. |
| 1:01.3 | Handicapped people who are quadriplegic who can't work and bring in money. I mean, you left out a huge percentage of the population because they have no value. |
| 1:13.3 | That makes being explained that way that that makes more sense in my head to like be able to let go of that thought process. |
| 1:21.3 | Good because it's nuts. |
| 1:26.3 | I've never never since I was that but that that's not the point. That's not the point. |
| 1:33.3 | The point is that all the all the things that make humanity special. Don't make the person special to you. Just the money. |
| 1:46.3 | So what kind of things can I like tell myself daily to get out of that funk when I get into it. |
| 1:53.3 | My husband is happy to come home to me. My children throw their arms around my neck. I can't be more important than that to two people. |
| 2:04.3 | Okay. Your husband doesn't come home to you because you make money comes home to you because you're loving and compassionate and sweet and sexy and fun and warm. |
| 2:16.3 | That's why he comes home to you. Your kid looks up at you as a goddess. She doesn't care what's in your purse or what you used to do for a living. |
| 2:26.3 | She just cares that you protect her and nurture her and hold her and respond to her. |
| 2:33.3 | That's how you're important to her. So you're ferociously important. More important. |
| 2:39.3 | Then when you made money, frankly, because obviously you were replaced. Whatever it is that you did. There's someone else doing it now. |
| 2:48.3 | Well, your husband would be bereft on the face of their earth. There are tens of thousands of people who earned the money doing what you did. |
| 2:56.3 | True. |
| 2:58.3 | But your husband and your child would be dead. You're husband and your child would be desolate. You can't be replaced. |
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