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Your Calm Goes First: Dr Rosanna M on threat, drive and the soothe system motherhood forgets
Episode 13
Published 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
Your brain didn't break when you became a mother. It got an upgrade.
Clinical psychologist Dr Rosanna M joins us on compassion-focused therapy and the three systems that run how we feel: threat, drive and soothe. Motherhood sharpens two of them. You hear the cry before anyone else does. You hold a hundred things in your head at once. The one that quietly slips is soothe, the rest and the steadiness that hold it all together.
So we get practical about getting it back. A grounding exercise you can do mid-feed. The five percent shift. And why a treat is never just a treat.
Warm, clever and genuinely useful. Find Rosanna on Instagram at @DrRosannaM.
Resources:
- Guided breathing exercise (diaphragmatic breathing with Sophie, Nuffield Health): https://247.nuffieldhealth.com/videos/diaphragmatic-breathing-with-sophie
- Values vs goals, getting a sense of what matters to us again (video): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-sMFszAaa7C9poytIAmBvA
- The Happiness Trap Bull's Eye worksheet (PDF): https://thehappinesstrap.com/upimages/Long_Bull's_Eye_Worksheet.pdf
- More from Rosanna, Becoming Mum resources: https://becomingmum.co.uk/resources/