Why is the World so Tough on Mothers?
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, Em and Alex are joined by founder of Motherkind, Zoe Blaskey! After a rollercoaster of an email from a listener last week, the girls were feeling a bit deflated. It was beginning to feel like there wasn't enough space to be open about the realities of motherhood, and that it wasn't clear to listeners how happy they were despite finding things hard. This is where Zoe came in to clear things up. Zoe is on a mission to help mothers shift from guilt, exhaustion and comparison to confidence and empowerment. She explains why a mother's instinct isn't innate, what matrescence is and why you shouldn't tell mothers that they will get back to their "old self". This enlightening conversation is for mothers, future mothers, those questioning whether they want to be mothers and those who have decided against parenthood all together!
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Edited by Daisy Grant
Music by Alex Andrew
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| 0:00.0 | If a young adult came to us for some advice we would never like don't worry you'll get your teenage |
| 0:13.8 | yourself back. We wouldn't say that but that's what we say to mums we're like don't |
| 0:18.0 | worry you get yourself back and I think that's why so many moms struggle. Hello and welcome back to should I delete that. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Alex Light. |
| 0:27.3 | And I'm in Clarkson. |
| 0:28.5 | How are you Alex? |
| 0:29.9 | I am good. |
| 0:32.3 | I say I'm good and then the three things that I've got to talk to you about |
| 0:37.6 | on none of them are good but I am good I just don't have anything specifically |
| 0:41.8 | good how are you? |
| 0:43.0 | Better. Get into it. Let's get through the list. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay. My first thing, and my first thing, this isn't me moaning about the heat, okay? |
| 0:53.0 | But the heat does play a part in this story. |
| 0:54.5 | But I'm not specifically moaning about the heat. |
| 0:56.9 | Indirectly, I kind of am. |
| 0:58.1 | Okay, last year we bought an AirCon machine for our bedroom |
| 1:01.5 | because I can't survive I can't function in this heat as you know and |
| 1:06.9 | sleeping is just horrendous and so bought an aircon machine last year and on it was heaven like I just felt like I'd |
| 1:15.8 | I just felt like I'd landed like it was just the best thing ever and then like a few days a few |
| 1:20.4 | nights in the tube fell out of the window and it shot Betty up and since then like she's |
| 1:26.4 | she's just clever she just remember she knows now she has this like fear like total |
| 1:32.1 | total fear of the aircon machine of that big tube and it's |
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