Unpacking Moms' Mental Load :: Dr. Morgan Cutlip [Ep 503]
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5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today, Dr. Morgan Cutlip is here to help us navigate the topic of mental load specifically as moms. Morgan is a psychologist and highly sought after relationship expert. Her book Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself helps moms advocate for their needs in a loving way. We cover a large range of issues facing parents today including…
- The invisible running to-do list we keep in our minds.
- How to identify your needs and communicate them.
- How to get clear about what you feel and need so you do not confuse your spouse.
- Identifying the two different types of guilt and how to respond.
- The three domains of mental load- cognitive, physical, and emotional.
- Navigating the holiday season with the added tasks and pressure to make it magical.
Connect with Dr. Morgan Cutlip:
- Website: Dr. Morgan Cutlip
- Facebook: Dr. Morgan Cutlip
- Instagram: Dr. Morgan Cutlip (@drmorgancutlip)
Links Mentioned:
- Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself by Dr. Morgan Cutlip
- A Better Share : How Couples Tackle the Mental Load (pre-order)
- How We Feel App
Related Episodes:
- Organize Your Mental Load :: Laurel Denise [Ep 444]
- “How do I connect better with my kids?” [Ep 475] :: Summer of Mentorship Week 1
- Body Awareness in Parenting :: Mary Van Geffen [Ep 333]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:14.6 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:19.6 | And in this episode number 503, the last one of 2024, |
| 0:25.0 | we're going out with a bang and I've invited to the show, Dr. Morgan Cutliff. |
| 0:30.1 | And the mental load of the home and family life for women especially is so often the intersection of the mental, the physical, and the emotional, |
| 0:42.0 | which I call the triple threat. |
| 0:44.0 | And that is why it is so stinking draining. |
| 0:49.4 | Dr. Cutlop is a psychologist and a highly sought after a relationship expert. She has a book out called |
| 0:56.1 | Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself and a new one that we're going to have to have her come back on |
| 1:00.5 | to talk about called A Better Share How Couples Tackle the Mental Load. And today, she and I are |
| 1:07.8 | going to talk about what is mental load, this invisible running to-do list that we keep in our minds. |
| 1:14.2 | How do we as moms identify our needs and communicate them and get clear without confusing our spouses? |
| 1:23.7 | She tells us about two different types of guilt and how to respond to them. |
| 1:27.0 | She talks about three domains of mental load. |
| 1:29.6 | And there are some tips for navigating the holiday season without adding more to your |
| 1:35.5 | to do list and to remove some of the pressure to make it magical. |
| 1:39.8 | So let's get right to it. |
| 1:41.6 | Here we go. |
| 1:43.5 | Morgan, thank you for coming on the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 1:48.3 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:49.7 | Thank you for having me. |
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