You're not just managing the logistics of your household. You're managing the emotional lives of everyone in it. All the time. Noticing the moods, tracking the tensions, holding the space, soothing the feelings. While your own emotional life gets dealt with last, if it all.

This is called emotional labour. It's real, it costs something, and it almost never gets talked about honestly.

In this episode, Sarah gets into what emotional labour actually is, why it falls so disproportionately on mothers, what it does to your sense of self over time, and what actually helps. Including the hardest things of all - letting yourself be held, not just holding everyone else.

Reflection prompt: When was the last time you let someone hold you? And if it's been a while, what would it take to let that happen?

Find Sarah at www.sarahbabiker.com, www.instagram.com/mothercircleuae, and www.instagram.com/_sarahbabiker_

Someone asked where the scissors were. And you lost it. Not because of the scissors...

In this episode, Sarah gets into maternal anger - why mothers feel so much of it, why we're convinced we shouldn't, and what actually happens when we keep swallowing it. Spoiler: it comes out sideways. Usually over something small. Usually followed by three days of guilt.

This isn't an episode about how to stop being angry. It's about why your anger makes complete sense, what it's actually trying to tell you, and what to do with it that isn't suppression or explosion.

Reflection prompt: What are you actually angry about? Not the most recent thing, but the underneath thing. What's the real thing?

Find Sarah at www.sarahbabiker.com, www.instagram.com/mothercircleuae, and www.instagram.com/_sarahbabiker_

Who in your house knows when you're running low on toilet roll? Right. And who noticed the permission slip, the dentist appointment, the birthday present, the school shoes, and the fact that the washing machine has a filter?

Just you?

Welcome to the mental load.

In this episode, Sarah gets into the invisible cognitive labour that is quietly exhausting mothers everywhere - what it actually is, what it does to your identity and your sense of self, and what genuinely helps. Not a rant, not a list of things to ask your partner to do. Something more useful than that.

We talk about naming it, externalising it, letting some of it go, and - most importantly - what becomes possible when your brain finally has a bit of space in it.

Reflection prompts What's one thing on the mental load you could genuinely hand over, and actually let go?

AND What would you think about if you weren't thinking about everyone else's stuff?

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