The word every mother needs to hear

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The first time Zoe heard the word 'Matrescence' was transformative. For her, it went from feeling like she was doing it all wrong, to realising that the early years of motherhood are meant to be a time where life gets thrown up in the air, and everything changes. Since then, it's been her mission to spread the word about Matrescence: what it really means, and the tools mothers need to navigate it with far more self-compassion. This week's episode is part of Zoe's mission to make mothers aware of their matrescence - it's a conversation taken from the 'I Don't Think We Talk Enough About...' podcast with Helen Marie which we wanted to share with our community. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New way to thrive in a world of endless expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind This show is sponsored by FreePrints. Download the Free Prints app for iPhone and Android from the App store or Google Play or visit freeprints.co.uk.Continue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to this episode of Motherkind. It is me, your host Zoe Blaskey. We are sponsored by
0:13.9	wild nutrition women's supplements. And this is the show that is going to support you through
0:19.5	the wild ride. That is modern motherhood. I want this podcast to help that is going to support you through the wild ride that is modern motherhood.
0:21.8	I want this podcast to help you feel seen, to feel validated, understood and give you so many
0:28.6	expert-backed tools and ideas that will help you feel like the most confident, regulated,
0:34.5	happy version of you that there is. Thank you so much for being here. And I can't tell
0:39.8	you what it means to me that you let me into your world. And I promise I will keep doing everything I
0:45.4	can to make this podcast better and better. Next year will be 10 years of the Motherkind podcast.
0:52.2	Can you believe it? And one thing that helps me to keep doing
0:58.2	this work is you, my community and my listeners, when you share an episode, when you tell
1:04.0	someone at the school or nursery gates about it, when you subscribe, I cannot tell you the
1:08.9	different it makes. So thank you so much for helping me in getting these
1:12.4	important conversations to reach more and more mothers who need to hear them. I remember the first
1:19.7	time I heard the word matressants. Honestly, it changed everything from me. I went from feeling
1:25.4	like I was doing it all wrong for the first time
1:28.4	really realizing that the early years of motherhood are actually meant to be a time when
1:34.4	everything gets thrown up in the air. And just like adolescence, it is a process of huge
1:39.6	change and adjustment. And so from that moment, I went on a mission to spread the word
1:44.9	about the word metrescence. Not only, of course, the word itself, but the concept and
1:50.0	what it really means. And to share tools to help us navigate this time with far more ease and
1:57.4	self-compassion, which is what every single mother going through their metressants
2:03.1	needs. Self-compassion. I believe that in the core of my being. This week's episode is a
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