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Mum As You Are Erin Bowe
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Mum as you are is a place for self-compassionate reflection to use what you have within you, right now as you are, perfectly imperfect to find your way through motherhood.
I’m Dr Erin Bowe, Clinical & Perinatal Psychologist, Author of More Than a Healthy Baby, course creator and mum of two. This is my second podcast – welcome if you have followed me over from my birth trauma work.
This current podcast offering is bite sized, unfancy and unplanned. A roadmap for finding your way back to self-compassion and how to replace numbing and escapism with true, meaningful fun.
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80 Feel like you're not doing alone time properly?
You find an hour to yourself. A moment you’ve potentially been anticipating
for weeks. What do you do? You fantasize about what you *could* do - book a
massage? see a friend? read a book?
Then the moment comes. Is this excitement or anxiety in your body? Is
this feeling calm or am I just frozen? Somehow you can’t think of a single
thing you want to but instead are filled with thoughts – I’m feeling ok now,
maybe I should just fold laundry. I’ll just go online for a bit, just to get
ideas and chill.
Next thing you’re looking at photos of your kids on your phone and the
hours is almost up. Now you’re all frustrated and angry at yourself again for
not doing alone time ‘properly’.
What happened?
As a mother, I’ve found myself fantasising about the second I can hand
the kids over to be alone, only to find that the moment I’m truly alone, I
don’t know what to do with myself.
Social Media Detox for Mums
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More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth
after birth trauma
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If you'd like to follow along my
slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and
have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
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79 psychologist recommended books for mums June/July
*NB this episode is available on YouTube if you want to follow along with the visuals
Life in the Five Senses, Gretchen Rubin
https://amzn.to/3qjroyI
Feeding the Soul (Because it’s my Business), Tabitha Brown
https://amzn.to/439h0Zd
The Art of Growing up, John Marsden and Take Risks, John
Marsden
https://amzn.to/43tAhEq
https://amzn.to/3C0tLsV
Coretta: My Life, My Love My Legacy, Coretta Scott King
https://amzn.to/3C5kb80
Dissociation made Simple, Jamie Marich
https://amzn.to/3C19NhD
Other books I often recommend to clients
The Postnatal Depletion Cure, Dr Oscar Seralach
https://amzn.to/3IHgvx6
The Power of Fun, Catherine Price
https://amzn.to/3IGrO8T
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start
Connecting, Dr Laura Markham
https://amzn.to/3MYWWmA
AKA Calm Parents, Happy Kids (UK adapted version)
https://amzn.to/3OK6nr5
There's also my books :)
Social Media Detox for Mums
Amazon Australia
More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth
after birth trauma
https://amzn.to/3cAuvfu
If you'd like to follow along my
slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and
have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
Inquiries: dr.erinbowe@gmail.com -
78 should you get up earlier?
Getting up at dawn to journal, exercise and smash goals might work well for well-rested people. But what if you're not yet a member of the well-rested Mum's club? Is getting up earlier the answer?
Social Media Detox for Mums
Amazon Australia
More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth
after birth trauma
https://amzn.to/3cAuvfu
If you'd like to follow along my
slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and
have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
Inquiries: dr.erinbowe@gmail.com -
77 How to winter in difficult times
Wintering doesn’t have to occur in the physical season of winter. It can represent a time in life that’s challenging and depleting. A time when your soul needs to rest and pull back.
Today I share 4 lessons I've learned in wintering
This book might also be helpful:
Wintering: The Art of Rest in Difficult Times
https://amzn.to/43a1Pio
Social Media Detox for Mums
Amazon Australia
More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth after birth trauma
https://amzn.to/3cAuvfu
If you'd like to follow along my slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
Inquiries: dr.erinbowe@gmail.com -
76 Anxiety Tools to Steal from your Kids 🦸♀️
Some of the best anxiety tools around are ones that people often assume are just for kids. I'll share with you a few fun, playful tools to introduce or re-introduce into your stress and self-care practise.
I recently learned about a tool called Calm Strips. I haven’t tried them yet, and not sponsored, but they look interesting. They look like a sensory toy in sticker form. You can choose a range of textures – bumpy, soft etc. for focus and de-stressing.
Social Media Detox for Mums
Amazon Australia
More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth after birth trauma
https://amzn.to/3cAuvfu
If you'd like to follow along my slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
Inquiries: dr.erinbowe@gmail.com -
75 When it feels like everything you do is wrong
Like pretty much every mum I know, I have too many tabs in my brain open: when did I last worm the
dogs? How am I going to find time to go to the dentist? Does my youngest have allergies? Is it bad that I stopped taking my kids to swimming lessons? Is every choice I make as a mum somehow always "wrong"?
The internet regularly gives the message that if only you tried a bit harder, or focused a bit more, you could have the cake and eat it.
But don’t eat cake, OK? Because of sugar, white carbs and gluten, oh my. Am I doing anything right?
Turns out there's a is a word for this experience: Paro
It means the feeling that everything you do is somehow wrong.
It works best as a visual example, so if you haven’t seen
this short video explaining it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7l2hUp0CkQ
I encourage you to watch it. It comes from a book I just discovered and am slightly
obsessed with – the dictionary of obscure sorrows by john Koenig. Basically its
new words for emotions we all feel but don’t have the language for.
https://amzn.to/3OMlu3A
Social Media Detox for Mums
Amazon Australia
More than a healthy baby: finding strength and growth after birth trauma
https://amzn.to/3cAuvfu
If you'd like to follow along my slow living journey on my YouTube channel
I also send a weekly email and have old school-style pen pals rather than use social media :)
My Website: https://doctorerin.com.au/
Mental health courses I teach: https://doctorerin.com.au/shop
Inquiries: dr.erinbowe@gmail.com
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