“Taking the time to train your brain to thrive in motherhood, is the most important self-care”
This episode of The Tough Mothers Podcast and Tough Mothers TV is about as action-packed as motherhood.
It was such a pleasure to speak with Dr. Melissa Raymond from Your Journey to Healing in February 2021 for the Healthy Mums Health Families Summit.
We covered so much in our conversation!
From my journey into and out of postnatal anxiety, to the need to stop giving all of ourselves to motherhood, to the 50 Shades of Motherhood and how you can thrive amongst them all. There is even a FREE motherhood meditation in there that takes just a few minutes but will start you on your journey to training your brain to thrive in motherhood.
All mothers will benefit from this episode, because it:
♥ Teaches you about matrescence, the transition into motherhood – how it changes mothers’ brains and how you can use this transformation to truly thrive in motherhood.
♥ Explains the 50 Shades of Motherhood spectrum – a spectrum ALL mothers sit on – and teaches you strategies for how you can manoeuvre your way around the shades to initiate your happiness in motherhood.
♥ Gives you strategies to start training your own brain to truly thrive in motherhood. There is also a FREE E-Book for you to download to start the brain training (see mentions in this episode).
♥ Gives you a mother moment time-out: a powerful, yet brief motherhood meditation that will positively affect your brain and mind.
Key takeaways from this episode [podcast, TV]:
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Is it true that the more of yourself you give, the better a mother you are?
“It’s easy to lose yourself in motherhood, but it is at your detriment.”
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Learn what matrescence is and why you must prepare yourself for the transition into motherhood before you become a mother.
“We are mothering in a completely different world – the village mums had is largely non-existent now.”
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Mama, are you aware of your thoughts?
How my negative thoughts created my negative motherhood experience. And how your negative thoughts can ruin your experience too.
“Don’t believe everything you tell yourself!”
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Learn about the 50 Shades of Motherhood spectrum that all mums sit on. What is it, where do you sit on it, and why you must know how to get from one end of the spectrum to the other. The visual spectrum is attached in the mentions in this episode below. Check it out and in the comments below let me know where you sit.
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Matrescence is the perfect time to work on creating the brain you want, so you can create the motherhood life you want. Learn how to do that in this episode.
“Don’t feel that just because motherhood is currently hard, that it will always be hard – you CAN train your brain to thrive and be happy!”
*Matrescence is the developmental transition women go through when we become mothers. It is all encompassing – physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual. Matrescence transforms us. We need to learn about it, so we can be prepared, feel we are not alone and learn tools for how to use this transition to thrive.
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Imagine if you trained your brain like you train your body.
Mental health needs to be treated equally to physical health, including the exercises we do. The effects the exercises have is exactly the same – the brain is like a muscle!
“For some reason somewhere along the line we separated the brain and the body, but they are very much connected.”
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Enjoy your FREE motherhood meditation – it only takes a couple of minutes and has powerful results.
“The brain doesn’t know what is real and what is not. Learn how to use this to your advantage and thrive.”
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It’s important to not lose ourselves in motherhood.
You can give yourself, but not all of yourself all of the time. Motherhood is a great time to learn to love your new self and your new life. Make sure you make yourself a priority in motherhood.
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.”- Carl Jung
Mentions in this episode:
♥ Tough Mothers courses implement a three-step framework to:
1) help mothers understand how motherhood changes their brain
2) how to strengthen their brain by training it to thrive in motherhood.
3) Teach simple, specific exercises mothers can fit into their busy day to train their brain to thrive in motherhood
♥ Buy your copy of the paperback and Kindle/electronic version of I Wish Someone Had Told Me – unspoken truths about what really happens to women during labour, childbirth and the first few weeks of motherhood by Dr Jennifer Hacker Pearson PhD
♥ The 50 Shades of Motherhood spectrum – for more information about it and to work with Dr Jen click here
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