Mother’s Day is often framed as a day of celebration — flowers, cards, gratitude for the women who care for everyone else.

But where did this day actually come from? And how did something that began as recognition quietly turn into expectation?

In this episode, Kerry and Beccy trace the origins of Mothering Sunday in the UK and Mother’s Day in the US, exploring how these traditions began as moments of return, reflection, and honouring women’s contribution to family and community.

From there, the conversation moves into something deeper.

Together they explore the subtle cultural script many women have inherited — the idea that being “good” means anticipating everyone else’s needs, holding everything together, and caring at your own expense.

With honesty and curiosity, they reflect on the ways women sometimes participate in these patterns themselves: where overgiving can feel safer than stepping back, where being indispensable becomes part of identity, and where resentment or exhaustion quietly builds.

Through the lens of the mother archetype — not just nurture, but protection, boundaries, authority, and creation — they explore what it might mean to reclaim balance.

This isn’t about rejecting care.

It’s about redefining it.

Whether you are a mother, a daughter, or simply a woman navigating the expectations placed upon you, this conversation invites you to reflect on how you give, how you hold yourself, and how you might begin to mother yourself with the same compassion you offer others.

As Mother’s Day approaches in the UK, this episode offers a gentler, more conscious perspective — one that honours the past while inviting a quiet reclamation in the present.

Happy Mother's Day to all the women.

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