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Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Your Motherhood is Only as Powerful as Your Personhood - Revisit

Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Dr. Becky

Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Relationships, Parenting, Society & Culture, Education

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

People will tell you: a baby changes everything. What no one tells you is how much you change — and how hard it is to love yourself when you don't quite recognize yourself anymore. In this conversation, Dr. Becky sits down with poet and author Cleo Wade (Remember Love) to talk about what it actually feels like to lose yourself in early parenthood — and what finding your way back looks like. They go deep on postpartum depression, the guilt that masquerades as gratitude, why the hard thoughts hit so much harder than the hard moments themselves, and the small, unglamorous practices — a walk, a shower, two words on a post-it note — that can become a real turning point. Cleo's line has stayed with so many parents who've heard it: your motherhood is only as powerful as your personhood. This episode is a reminder of why that's true — and a guide for how to actually live it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Brooke a Good Inside. A quick note before we get started. This week, we're bringing back

0:05.2

one of the most beloved episodes in our catalog. Your motherhood is only as powerful as your

0:09.8

personhood, a conversation between Dr. Becky and poet and author Cleo Wade. And we're doing it right now

0:15.4

for a reason. If you ever had a hard night with your baby and caught yourself thinking,

0:19.2

I'm doing this wrong,

0:23.9

or why does this feel so hard when everyone else seems fine?

0:27.1

You already know that the problem isn't really the hard moment.

0:28.8

It's the story that follows it.

0:33.1

That quiet voice that turns a rough night into a verdict about who you are as a parent.

0:39.5

So we built a brand new podcast around that exact experience. It's called Rattled, because it's for those moments when New Parenthood shakes you. Every episode, we go into the honest, disorienting,

0:46.0

often beautiful mess of new parenthood, because sometimes you just need to hear someone else

0:50.3

name the thing you're feeling. Alongside the podcast, we're opening up something much

0:54.8

bigger, a whole new home for the baby years inside the Good Inside app, sleep support, lactation

1:00.8

expertise, workshops, tools, all of it designed around one core belief that a parent who feels

1:06.5

held can hold their baby, that when you feel sturdy, everything else gets easier.

1:12.1

Which is why today's episode still hits the way it does, because Cleo Wade said it perfectly.

1:17.3

Your motherhood is only as powerful as your personhood.

1:20.7

She and Dr. Rebecca go deep on what it actually feels like to lose yourself in the baby stage

1:24.7

and what the path back looks like.

1:27.4

Subscribe to Rattled by Goodenside, link is in the show notes and share it with new parents

1:31.6

and parents to be in your life.

1:33.3

And now, Dr. Becky and Cleo Wade.

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