Why You’re Snapping, Overthinking and Feeling Constantly On Edge (And What To Do To Stop)
Motherkind
Zoe Blaskey
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
You’re not failing. Your nervous system is overwhelmed, and there’s a reason why.
If you’ve been snapping, overthinking, lying awake at night, or feeling strangely disconnected from your own life, this episode will help you understand why.
Because it’s not a mindset problem.
It’s your nervous system.
In this solo, Zoe goes deeper than typical “nervous system” advice to explore what’s really driving overwhelm in motherhood and why so many of us feel stuck in survival mode, even when nothing is “wrong”.
This is about understanding the root, not just managing the symptoms.
💡 In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why your nervous system feels stuck in survival mode (and why that makes sense)
How your past experiences shape your reactions in motherhood today
The hidden beliefs driving overwhelm, guilt, and reactivity
Simple, practical ways to calm your body and come back to baseline
This episode will help you stop blaming yourself and start understanding what’s really going on underneath.
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| 0:27.3 | vary. See an app for current delivery estimates. Welcome to Motherkind. It is me, your host, Zoe, |
| 0:34.0 | and this is a show that is about you, the woman behind the mother and we are proudly sponsored |
| 0:38.9 | by wild nutrition's women's supplements. Can I say something that I genuinely don't think anyone |
| 0:48.1 | is saying to mothers. The reason that you're snapping, the reason you're lying away at midnight with your |
| 0:55.3 | brain still going, the reason you're zoning out when your child is talking to you and maybe |
| 1:00.3 | feeling like you are one small thing away from losing it, it's not because you're failing and it's |
| 1:07.7 | not because you're weak and it's definitely not because you're a bad mother. |
| 1:11.3 | It's because your nervous system is stuck in survival mode. And not only does that make |
| 1:17.3 | complete sense, if you think about it, it's actually expected given what we're asking of |
| 1:22.6 | ourselves. So if you've tried the breathing exercises and maybe the journaling and you still feel like a bit of a live wire, stay with me because today I want to go a layer deeper than most nervous system content does. |
| 1:36.5 | And I want to help you understand not just how to regulate, but why you're dysregulated in the first place. |
| 1:43.7 | Because once you get that everything else |
| 1:47.3 | clicks so I went deep on studying the nervous system for my book mother kind and what I learned |
| 1:56.2 | I really think every single mother needs to know. When my eldest daughter was a baby, she would |
| 2:05.9 | cry a lot as babies do. And I would find myself almost floating away, like her mini dissociation. |
| 2:13.3 | So still in the room, still going through the motions, but actually somewhere else in my mind entirely. |
| 2:19.2 | And I'll be honest with you, I thought I was a terrible mother. |
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