Mothering Anxiety

Mothering Anxiety

By Mireya LopezHealth & FitnessMental Health
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Mothering Anxiety episodes

  • Episode 106: First Trimester
    I decided to record my thoughts, feelings, worries, and anxieties during each trimester of my pregnancy as they came along. I wanted to record them just as they were happening so these recording were done months prior to publishing. If you listened to my episode on my pregnancy announcement you know that I decided to keep my second pregnancy under the wraps for many reasons including the sanity of my Mental Health but I knew that being able to record everything in present time would be beneficial to many of us who deal with Anxiety.  
    Take a listen as I talk about everything going on during my First Trimester and how it compared to my first pregnancy with my first born when I suffered from severe Antepartum Depression. Keeping my Mental Health at bay was my top priority during this pregnancy and I think that my decision to keep it to ourselves was exactly the medicine I needed to truly enjoy this wonderful process of being able to create life all over again.
    31 min
  • Episode 105: Anxiety Post Covid
    It is currently almost the end of September and we had Covid LAST December and I am STILL dealing with some everlasting side effects with honestly, only cause me a great deal of Anxiety because I don't know if they will ever go back to normal.
    I lost my sense of smell and taste and I am still having trouble smelling certain things, certain things that are suppose to smell good smell bad, and I have still not fully recovered my full sense of taste back meaning that a lot of the things I used to enjoy just don't taste the same anymore, example IN N OUT. Yes. . . .
    Take a listen as I talk about some of the lingering side effects and what it is currently doing to my Mental State.
    26 min
  • Episode 104: Anxiety as an AA Wife
    I have finally decided to share my story (with my Husband's permission too because it is also his story to tell) about my experience as a wife of an Alcoholic and what it did to my Mental Health and Anxiety. 
    It took me awhile to open up about this because I felt that it was something that I wasn't ready to fully talk about until I was able to fully accept and heal over this portion in our lives. It was really rough on us physically, mentally, emotionally, and I didn't want to talk about my experience until I was able to fully process all of my thoughts and feelings over what had truly happened in our marriage.
     Take a listen as I talk about been a wife of an Alcoholic and how at one point, I did not think our marriage would survive my Husband's alcoholism.
    39 min
  • Episode 103: Basic Survival Skills
    Do you ever feel like you missed out on "typical learning experiences" because of your childhood trauma? Think about it for a second. Did you never learn how to cook or clean or any other basic survival skills because you were too busy trying to stay busy, trying to stay on someone's good side, or trying to hide?
    I never really thought about it until one day, I was cleaning soap scum off of my bathtub and I realized that no one ever taught me how to clean let alone remove soap scum from a tub.
    Weird right?
    Take a listen as I talk about some basic survival skills that you would have thought I would have learned how to do once I moved out on my own but that I simply never learned.
    33 min
  • Episode 102: My Pregnancy Announcement
    If you are following my Instagram, you would have seen that a few weeks ago I announced my Pregnancy.
    Now, you might be asking, why didn't you announce it sooner? And there are very many factors to that which I share about in this episode. Whether it was to protect my Mental Health, because of family drama, or simply because we just weren't ready, I discuss it all here.
    Take a listen as I talk about wanting to hide my pregnancy because of Toxic People in our lives and what it did for my Mental Health.
    35 min
  • Episode 101: Unplugging
    I decided to take a 4 week break from Podcasting but in all honesty, I needed a break from Social Media in general. I have been in the "Instagram" world since 2019 without truly ever taking time off for myself, time off for my Mental Health, and time off from Content Creating. As much as I love doing it, it was time for a break and after Podcasting and recording 100 episodes, I figured what better milestone timing of me.
    Take a listen as I talk about how I started this whole Social Media journey and just how important it was for me to take some time off where I didn't have to worry about recording new episodes or having to create new content for Instagram.
    28 min
  • Episode 100: 2 Years

    Can you believe we have reached 100 episodes and that Mothering Anxiety has been live for 2 years now?

    How incredible, how insane, but also how EXHAUSTING. Although I am extremely grateful for this journey and all the people I have met, all the people I have helped, all the healing I have done, I must say that I am Mentally Drained. 

    I never expected this Podcast to become what it is, a very live, very public, and very vulnerable healing journey for me. When I first started, I just wanted to talk about how much living with Anxiety sucks but the more I recorded, the more I realized that it sucked because I was letting it suck. There was so much that I could do and change within myself to help my Mental Health and truly it has been an eye opening two years.

    Take a listen as I talk about the realities of being so vocal and vulnerable and honest very publicly from someone who truly doesn't open up in real life. 


    29 min
  • Episode 99: Acceptance and Forgiveness

    Life isn't about finding happiness, it's about finding peace. For so long, I searched every possible way to "be happy" when the reality of it was that all I wanted was some peace and tranquility in my life.

    In order for me to find that, I had to learn to accept my life for what it was and I had to accept that the people that were in my life were going to be who they were meant to be and there was absolutely nothing I could do to change my past or to change them. 

    Another way for me to find peace was to finally learn to forgive them.

    Take a listen as I talk about one of the hardest steps of my healing journey, learning to accept and forgive. 

    33 min
  • Episode 98: I'm Toxic Too

    One of the biggest surprises in my healing journey was realizing how much damage I had caused to other people because of my own unhealed trauma. I used to take out my fears, worries, insecurities, and rage out at others simply because I did not know that there was something inside of me that needed to be "fixed."

    This goes hand in hand with my episode on "Victimhood," but in this episode, I completely call myself out. 

    In order to move on and let go, I feel that it is completely necessary to be able to admit your wrongs and to ask others for forgiveness.

    Take a listen as I explain one of the most important steps I have had to overcome in my healing journey.

    30 min
  • Episode 97: Mothering Without A VIllage

    They say it takes a village to raise a child but like, what happens when you don't have one? What happens when your Mom anxiety doesn't allow you to trust anyone with your child or what if you're on a healing journey and cut out the people that are meant to be your village?

    Take a listen as I talk about having to raise my daughter without a village because I am a Mother riddling with Anxiety that tells me something bad is going to happen to my child if I leave her in the care of someone else even if it is for a few hours in the day and because the people that are meant to be the village also turned out to be not so trustworthy.

    27 min

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