Do you often feel like you're holding up a bunch of spinning plates in the air and if you step back for a second, they will all crash down? Do you feel like you need to hold a million bits of information in your head to the point of weekly exhaustion and burnout? Risa Williams talks to author, Lori Oberbroeckling, about the "invisible mental load" that parents carry and how it can often lead us into overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout.

They discuss:

-How parents (moms especially) are sometimes tasked with carrying around all the information for the week for the whole family as well as all the steps of daily tasks for everyone to complete

-How the "invisible load" increases our exhaustion and often leads to frustration, conflict, and stress

-How to start to delegate tasks to relieve some of the "mental load" and different approaches for doing this

-Risa and Lori share their own "micro-break" tools where you bring down the stress by doing fun activities for five minutes at a time

-How to schedule breaks and space to unwind into your week as priorities for your own wellbeing and self-care

**Risa will be speaking at Lori's Supermom Summit on June 1st as well as at Katie Kimball's Life Skills Now Camp in June and you can sign up for both at the links here:  https://bio.site/risawilliams or at risawilliams.com/writingmedia. Sign up today - it's free!**

Host: Risa Williams, risawilliams.com, @risawilliamstherapy

Guest: Lori Oberbroeckling, secretsofsupermom.com, @secretsofsupermom

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*All tools discussed on the show are meant for educational purposes only and not as a replacement for therapy or medical advice.