The pushing through is sometimes a solution. Just get dinner done, get everyone fed, and then you can have that break. But if you want to use dinner time as a break, as a point of connection with your family, sometimes rushing means more mistakes, more overwhelm, and then by the time you get to the table, you're just like frazzled and like throwing food in front of everyone and crying into your bowl.

Welcome to Didn't I Just Feed You, a weekly podcast about feeding families.

Hello, I'm Megan. And I'm Stacy.

This is a heavy way to open it, but are you guys feeling overwhelmed?

It isn't lost in us at May as Mental Health Awareness Month.

It's also one of the busiest months of the year for parents.

There's all kinds of memes about the end of school, gearing up for summer.

There's a lot of anxiety about the cost of additional summer programming.

And if your kids aren't going to additional summer programming, are they home and how do you work?

There's just like a lot going on.

So whether you're finishing up spring soccer or the school year or attending baby showers and bridal showers in addition to regular work in life, just feeding your family in this

kind of seasonal transition can feel like a lot. So this week, we're sharing strategies

for what to do when you're feeling overwhelmed.

And we're very carefully saying strategies for feeding because small, spoiler here,

feeding yourself doesn't always have to mean cooking for yourself or your family.

Yes. Okay. If you guys are feeling overwhelmed, the first thing that we want to do is tell you that more than just getting a ton of

ideas, which can feel like temporary relief, but isn't always the thing that really helps you

cope with feeling overwhelmed. What helps you

feeling like you can cope with overwhelm is having a community. So in all seriousness, I know that

we plug our listeners boards and our free community in every single episode because we want

you guys to know about it. We want to see you there. But we Pinky

promise that there is really genuinely tons of support for you there. People sharing recipes

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