In that moment, your whole body is basically in this like overwhelmed, overstimulated threat

response and it's just trying to make everything stop.

And you do that through whatever method.

Maybe it's fight, so you yell, maybe it's flight, so you just like drop, you like, you

don't drop the baby, you hand the baby over and then you walk to the bathroom and you close

the door just to be alone.

Maybe you freeze and you just find yourself kind of almost like detaching and like feeling

like you're not in your body in that moment.

Maybe you fun, so you all of a sudden overwhelmed, you're definitely on the brink, but you just

put everyone else's needs before your own and don't ask for help in that moment.

But these are really common and really overwhelming moments that can definitely contribute to these

like spirals of shame.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Pete's Dock Top Podcast, a podcast that keeps growing

because of you and your reviews, so thank you so much for tuning in and being here today.

On today's episode, I welcome Dr. Cassidy Freitas.

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice in California and host

of the Holding Space Podcast and she's joining me today to talk all about motherhood and

why we may feel so overstimulated.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me.

I love this topic.

I can relate to this topic.

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