Mind Over Mother: Every mum's guide to worry and anxiety in the first years

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Loads of helpful techniques and question points to help you fully understand and get to the root of how you feel in this season of life.

My favourite part about the book was the determination and passion with which the author promotes the idea that worry and mum guilt - those two things that mothers wear like badges of honour sometimes - don't have to be a normal everyday part of being a parent. Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I have realised a lot about my own emotions and how my self-preservation behaviour is actually not protective but is mostly holding me back. What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that the mere act of asking for help was, in itself, healing. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'With conversations on Maternal Mental Health on the rise, and more women speaking up about the way they feel, Anna Mathur's insight as a psychotherapist AND mother make her someone you feel you can trust.She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. Anxiety is the thief that steals precious headspace, impacting our peace and enjoyment of motherhood. I had every intention of passing this book onto a friend when I finished, then one friend turned into two, then three, then four. In Mind Over Mother, Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and mum of three, explains how to: * Understand anxiety, why it affects you and what to do about it* Make your mind a kinder, calmer, happier place to be* Transform your motherhood experience by addressing your thinking The most powerful tool Anna has to communicate this isn't the letters after her name, it is the fact that she is open about her own experience of maternal anxiety.

I appreciated the focus on anxiety in motherhood, and the different scenarios that you find yourself worrying about as a mum. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Anna has three children of her own and as well as being a professional in understanding how the mind works, she also has first hand experience of anxiety, following the arrival of her children. It’s also written from a very middle class, nuclear family normy perspective (“My husband came home from work and I hadn’t done the laundry. Giovanna Fletcher, bestselling author of Happy Mum, Happy Baby 'Anna is breath of fresh air - relatable, funny and wise' Sarah Turner, bestselling author of The Unmumsy MumBaby-proof the house; panic-proof the mum. She helps you by using practical CBT like technique, uses relatable analogies that cause light bulbs to go off in your head "of course, that makes total sense now" and above all helps you to feel less alone. And whilst you are anxious you are committed to being the best mother you can be and yet never seem to think that no matter what you are doing is good enough.

Anna's words are like a blanket that wrap you up and give you great comfort, helping you to realise you are not alone in what you are feeling. She is relatable, funny and wise - her voice is always one I feel I can trust, noting her experiences as both a psychotherapist and mother. I have bought it for three of my friends as a gift, who I know will find it just as resourceful and positively life-changing for their own experiences of motherhood.As mothers, we tend to quickly demote all the things that might help us feel more relaxed and grounded. It's not something that's easy for anyone to open up about, as the underlying fear is that you'll be deemed not fit to look after your children, so it's lovely to see someone being brave enough to talk about it for the length of a whole book. The most powerful tool Anna has to communicate this isn't the letters after her name, it is the fact that she is open about her own experience of maternal anxiety. I’m often battling with the part of my mind that tells me that if I’m not rushing, I’m not doing enough.

In this extract from her book Mind over Mother: Every mum’s guide to worry and anxiety in the first years, Anna talks to us about how to start recognising your own anxious thoughts. This book and the insight Anna shares on her Instagram and podcasts has truly helped me become a calmer, happier, more content and confident mother. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It's written in a conversational style, as though she's talking to you guiding you along her thoughts and musings. The long out-of-print 1978 novella by the brilliant Lynne Tillman catalogs a series of encounters and relationships spanning the 60s and the 70s. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.