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Hello and welcome to Motherkind. It is with me, your host, Zoe Blaskey. This is the show that's going to help you feel more empowered, confident and happy in motherhood despite us living in this world of judgment, pressure and comparison. This week is a solo episode with me and I'm so excited because I'm going to teach you how to turn your inner bully into an inner friend and become your own inner support system to feel more confident, happier and experience hopefully way more ease and calm in your days. There is so much judgment, isn't there? Criticism and

lack of validation in our roles as mothers. But we also have to learn not to do that to

ourselves as well. We have to learn how to get on our own sides because almost every mother I know,

deep down, doesn't feel good enough, and lives with a constant inner critic. We're actually

relentless in our criticism of ourselves. We focus on what we've done wrong rather than the

hundreds of things we've done right. We decide that

no one really likes us at the school gates or the toddler group. We question ourselves at every turn,

seeing that everyone else has it together and it's only us who feels like we're always failing.

I promise you, it is not only you. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that mothers

criticising ourselves is an epidemic. And there's a good reason why that is. The more we care about

something, the louder the inner critic gets. I feel like that's worth saying again, the more we care

about something, the louder the inner critic gets. So it actually makes sense, doesn't it? That in motherhood,

often the thing that we care about the most, and I know if you're listening to this podcast,

then you are deeply invested in your role as a mother. It makes sense then that the critic

gets louder and louder. We actually can't be happy if we're constantly criticizing ourselves.

It's just obvious, isn't it? We can't feel enough joy in our lives if we are living with a

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