305: 4 Ways To Manage The Mental Load of Motherhood

I have to laugh as I was recording this episode because I kept accidentally saying “the motherload” every time I went to say “the mental load of motherhood”.  And let’s be honest.  The mental load of motherhood is THE MOTHERLOAD. 

The Motherload (aka the mental load of motherhood) includes the 175 running lists you keep in your head in every single moment of #everydamnday. 

It includes:

• every school form you need to sign tonight
• how much creamer you have left in the fridge
• how many rolls of TP you have in the house
• when you need to call your mom
• what bills you need to pay by next Wednesday
• when the kids have their next day off school
• every single email you need to reply to today and which ones can wait until tomorrow
• what time the babysitter is coming on Friday
• which hotel you need to book for spring break
• which of your kid’s friends can’t have peanuts
• which of your kid’s friends you need to buy bday gifts for
• which socks your kid will NOT wear
• how many pairs of clean undies every single person in the household has left before you have to do laundry again
• what you’re having for dinner tonight and tomorrow and the next night and the next night and the next night and the next night
• which kid will eat crusts
• which kid will eat carrots
• which water bottle the kid will drink out of
• which water bottle the kid won’t drink out of

You are a damn library of information. You are basically hosting your own world wide web in your head. 

It’s a lot. 

It’s too much.

It’s maddening.

And sometimes it feels SUPER unfair.

The Motherload is exhausting on so many levels. 

I want to give you some hope.  But I’m going to warn you that this will require some work on your part.  But the work will be REWARDING.  The work will lessen the load!

When it comes to The Motherload, we tend to make it really hard on ourselves.  We get in our own way over and over.  We get stuck in perfectionism and martyrdom and make ourselves miserable. 

Listen in as I give you 4 methods to manage the madness.  These methods are simple (although not necessarily easy if you’re Type A like me) and they are going to dramatically improve your life and create space in your head (who doesn’t need more space in their head?!) 

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