Thrive in Motherhood Podcast

How I Know You're NOT Failing!


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Episode 3: Welcome back! Today I talk about failure and why I KNOW you’re not failing…yes, even though I don’t know you. 

Let's chat about how your internal programming is created early in childhood and creates the very path to the guilt that paralyzes us as moms. This programming then gets carried into adulthood and becomes how we view ourselves as mothers intertwined with our children’s behavior. 

We're going to untangle the mom guilt (this can be tough, I’m not going to lie), to open a door that wasn’t visible before. The door that is our access to calm & expressing the love (that I KNOW you have for your children) in a bigger way because we are no longer living in the “shoulds” of motherhood.  I'm going to flip the script on what it means to be a good mom and invite you to a new way of seeing yourself.

Humans have a primal need to maintain love, safety & belonging. It's absolutely fascinating to me the way in which children will develop strategies to keep these intact. And the thing is, we all start life the same...with the primitive, survival part of our brain fully developed & the higher functioning, critical thinking part of our brain completely undeveloped.

The thing is that the survival part of the brain has no filter of what is truth and what isn't and as children we make generalizations and interpretations of our experiences that lead to over 70% of our beliefs being limiting, disempowering, and self-sabotaging.

This is part of our human journey. And this is why so many of us feel like we are failing. All.The.Time. And why we're left desperately searching outside of ourselves to validate our worth.

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Thrive in Motherhood PodcastBy Irene McKenna