What Your Mental Load is Doing to Your Family
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Oh, the mental load.
We know it all too well.
It’s the constant, running to-do list, worries, stressors, and pressures that come with the motherhood job description. It’s overwhelming and can be downright debilitating.
In our modern-day mom culture, the mental load is often something we just “accept” with motherhood. It’s inevitable and unavoidable. It just…comes with the job description of being a mom.
There is truth to this. The weight of being a mom and everything we have to manage is not only exhausting but often feels impossible to figure out and conquer once and for all.
But, does it have to be this way? Do we have to succumb to the overwhelm of the mental load or is this something that we CAN conquer?
In this episode of the Mission Motherhood Podcast, we dive deeper into more specific causes of the mental load that have to do with historical pressure, society pressure, and even social media pressure. We talk about how, as moms, oftentimes our lack of expertise or professional knowledge about how to strategically identify and solve our problems in a way that works for us and our family also contributes to the cause.
Once we identify the causes, we talk about what this is actually doing to our families. As moms, it’s easy to feel like our mental load and overwhelm only affect us, but it affects every member of our family as well.
Mothers are the thermostat of the home.
We set the temperature. When we aren’t well, our family feels that and feeds off of our energy - even if we think we are doing a good job of “pushing through.”
When we really begin to look at how this affects our entire family, we can use that as motivation to determine that our mental load can be conquered and managed in such a way that it doesn’t take over our lives anymore.
Tune in to the episode a deeper dive into this conversation by clicking the links above for your favorite podcast player or by simply pressing play above.
Your mental load does not have to steal your joy or your family’s joy anymore, mama. You can conquer this your way.
Cheering you on.