In this episode of The Load We Carry, Emily Mori explores how autism reshapes entire family systems, especially for mothers who carry the invisible labor of regulation, advocacy, and emotional support. She highlights how daily life becomes organized around sensory needs, transitions, school systems, and healthcare demands, requiring constant vigilance and adaptation. Through clinical insight and personal reflection, Emily names the exhaustion, grief, and identity shifts that often go unspoken in autism parenting. She emphasizes that functioning “well” in public usually reflects hours of unseen preparation and co-regulation behind the scenes. This episode offers validation, compassion, and hope for caregivers navigating complex systems while learning to care for themselves alongside their families.

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High-Functioning Burnout looks like holding everything together on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside. In this episode, Emily explores what happens when chronic stress stops being situational and becomes your baseline. We talk about nervous system overload, invisible labor, survival mode, and why so many mothers feel exhausted, anxious, and disconnected despite “doing everything right.” This is a compassionate, science-informed conversation about why you are not weak, broken, or failing and what real, sustainable healing actually looks like.

Listener Reflection Guide Episode 2:

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/emily-mori-aberdeen-md/401510

https://emilymori.learnworlds.com/courses

In this opening episode of The Load We Carry, Emily Mori invites you to slow down and take an honest look at everything you have been holding. The emotional labor, the responsibility, the caregiving, the expectations, and the quiet pressure to keep going no matter how tired you feel.

This episode is about putting language to experiences that are often invisible and validating the reality of being capable and exhausted at the same time. Together, we explore why so many people feel overwhelmed without feeling “allowed” to admit it and how naming your load is the first step toward carrying it with more compassion and less self blame.

You are not weak for feeling tired. You are responding to a life that asks a lot of you.

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