Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostus, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right. So today I am doing a very, very scrappy version of a travel podcast.

Now, hopefully my sound is not, it sounds like a tin can in my ears because

I'm using literally the Air Canada headset that came with me or that was given to me on the flight

and my little travel recorder. We are totally, totally outside of our norms and that's okay.

I am excited to dive into this topic because it's been something that

I've been dabbling and talking about for a couple years, but normally I sit down and I put

out these thoughts and they're so nuanced and then they're in an Instagram post and then it carries

on into the comments, but I don't often sit down and I actually sit and dissect some of these feelings.

So that's what I want to do with you today. And I'm talking about the invisible load of mom guilt and the invisible load of motherhood and not

in the way that we've seen it be talked about before. And the thing is, I know that this goes beyond

motherhood if you're not a mom. I know that this extends to basically every other element in your life when you have something

else that is pulling your attention or your physical needs to do something, go working,

whatever it might be, once in a lifetime opportunities that might come up, but at the same time

as like grandma's birthday, there's so much that this

comes up with and I just want to unpack it because I am exhausted if I'm going to be honest.

I'm so tired because I feel like I can never escape this. And I think it's time that we finally,

I say finally, I have been addressing it, but I think we have to keep chipping

away at something that has taken so much root in us. Now, I have a pretty unique perspective when it

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