Secrets of the Motherworld
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Secrets of the Motherworld
Secrets of the Motherworld is a podcast created to help mothers feel less alone. We're two psychotherapists with a special interest in parenting. Listeners send us their anonymous stories about their own experiences in the Motherworld -- experiences that are too intensely private to share anywhere e...
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44: “The whole family is walking on eggshells.”
“I would like to hear your thoughts on how parents can speak about the elephant in the room.
My daughter is 15 and we have experienced school r...
43: “My daughter is overweight.”
My 13 year-old daughter is overweight and I don't know how to handle this.
We have always had food problems in the family as my husband has ba...
42: “It's the world that's crazy -- not us parents.”
“Hi Lisa and Stella. This is not so much of a question, but a warm and heartfelt THANK YOU. I think (hope!) that we're slowly getting to the end of so...
41: “I don’t trust her decision making.”
A year ago when our ADD student daughter then aged 21 revealed to my husband and myself that she was on a waiting list to have cross sex treatment, o...
40: “I know we should love the child we have and not wish them to be different but I can't help having these thoughts.”
“I worry that my boy is not very clever and I am secretly embarrassed and ashamed about this.
My family is over-invested in achievement and esp...
39: “My work has "juice" for me now while parenting just feels hard and draining.”
“I'm feeling incredibly disconnected from my kids right now.
I'm the main breadwinner and my husband stays home with them. When they were little...
38: “My sense of disappointment feels selfish.”
“I'm a single mom and I've always worked full time while raising my kids.
My youngest is graduating from high school this year and I've been an...
37: “Now, with the Coronavirus, she won't have any of the ceremonial endings that seem important to her.”
“My 12 year-old is leaving school this year and now, with the Coronavirus, she won't have any of the ceremonial endings that seem to important to her....
36: “We never told my parents.”
“I come from a close family. My parents have been involved in all aspects of my children’s lives and are extremely special to them. I have one adult s...
35: “Should I ask him if he’s still transgender?”
A year ago, my 16 year old son told us he is transgender. I was completely shocked, as he is not particularly feminine.
My son was very emotiona...
34: “My child is very anxious about the Coronavirus.”
“My child is very anxious about the coronavirus.
I'm a nurse and she doesn't want me to go to work. I take all the precautions and I have expla...
33: “My teen won’t stay at home during lockdown.”
“Any advice for a 14 year old son who won't stay at home during the coronavirus lockdown? I have a husband who is considered vulnerable.
When w...
032: “She’s dressed like a boy.”
“When our daughter went to school dressed as The Gruffalo (for World Book Day) another child dressed as a Disney princess commented ‘...she’s dressed...
031: “I still wonder how my husband had the time and space to cheat on me.”
“I never thought this will happen to me. I had a family, we were not perfect together but it worked and we were good at raising our sons. I still wond...
30: “I’m burnt-out from parenting.”
“I have been feeling burned out of parenting. It’s increased along with my age and I wonder if it’s because I had my 15 year old at age 42 that now de...
29: “My ex has transitioned to a woman and I worry for my children.”
“My ex transitioned to a woman 4 years ago and I am concerned about the impact this is having on my children. They meet her every week but the emphasi...
28: “My daughter oozes disgust for me.”
“I screwed up when raising my first child. I am still not quite sure what has been going wrong. I do a lot to figure out how to be a good parent and w...
27: "I feel like I’m failing every day"
“I‘m scared that I won't heal fast enough I grew up with difficult family circumstances and a complete emotional neglect. In my early twenties I had f...
26: I Love Sharing a Bed with my Toddler
“My daughter is almost four, and I still put her to be by lying down with her at night. I love the sweetness of lying there with her at the end of the...
25: “I regret having children… And I don’t know what to do”
“I regret having children. I have 4 of them. I don’t have any support. I’m a lone parent and my family see my kids as my responsibility. Two of my chi...
24: “Will I Ever Forgive Myself for You Not Being Mine?”
“I fell in love with a man who had a child from a previous marriage. When we were dating, he told me that his child would always come first and showed...
23: “How do I tell my children that their mum and dad are splitting up?”
Here’s the (edited) story we discuss this week:
“How do I tell my children that their mum and dad are splitting up? My husband will be v...
22: I dislike my daughter. She is 15. She is a troublemaker, a liar and sly
Here’s the (edited) story we discuss this week:
“I dislike my daughter. She is 15. She is a troublemaker, a liar and sly. When she was small she...
21: "I write as a daughter and a mother at the same time… "
Here’s the (edited) story we discuss this week:
“I guess I write as a daughter and a mother at the same time. Almost two years ago my mo...
20: “How could I best have supported my son when he was ill and totally dependent on his fathers’ money to survive - when I myself have a low income?”
Here’s the (edited) story we discuss this week:
“I divorced the father of my son about 20 years ago (my initiative). Our son was hurt in...
19: “I love spending time with her… She is so funny.”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“I’m a happy working part time married mom of a little one-year-old girl. I work from home and she is min...
18: My eldest son was extremely aggressive and intensely angry
“Simply put; unconditional love, ‘I love you regardless, I love you no matter what, I'll always be here for you’.
My eldest son went to hell an...
17: “We still get together and we all talk on chat threads and the laughter is there, but that intense, bump-up-against-each-other, kind of existence was way too short. It SEEMED to last forever, but it didn't. And it will never happen again. And I miss
“We still get together and we all talk on chat threads and the laughter is there, but that intense, bump-up-against-each-other, kind of existence was...
16: “I started to have terrible intrusive thoughts about hurting my kids"
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
This is part of the story when I could have used help.
I was under a tremendous amount of stress....
15: "I hit my daughter today. I slapped her in a rage. She looked frightened of me.”
“I hit my daughter today. I slapped her in a rage. She looked frightened of me.
This girl presses my buttons every day. The other two ki...
14: “I see other kids his age going after big goals, and my child just doesn’t seem motivated at all. He has so much talent, but he’s just not using it!”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“My oldest son is incredibly academically gifted. School just comes easily for him, and it always has. Th...
13: “Something I found hard becoming a mom was realizing how wrong my parents were in how they had raised me and how hard it is to break those cycles.”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“Something I found hard becoming a mom was realizing how wrong my parents were in how they had ra...
12: “The reason I’m writing is because nobody ever talks about the heartbreak of estrangement between a mother and a daughter”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“The long story would be a book but the short story goes something like this.
When my daug...
11: “It was his Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria that broke me.”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“My 17 year old, has undiagnosed high-functioning Autism, a high IQ, a history of school refusal, debilit...
10: “I’m terrified he’s heading into his genetic propensity for addiction regardless of his upbringing.”
“I’m on the verge of empty nesting & watching both kids launch into life. My son left 2 years ago & has derailed into intoxicants & cigarette smoking....
09: “At This Point in My Life, I Have Lost Who I Am.”
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“I had my beautiful son when I was 32. We tried for 2 years to conceive.
When I was...
08: I Have No Idea What Rules to Set and How Strict to Be
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“My 5 year old son wants to use the tablet to play games constantly. I let him play on it when I...
07: The Instinct of Birth
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“My own mother always made a point of telling me how terrible it had been to give birth to me, that her b...
06: My Only Child has Schizophrenia
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“My only child has severe paranoid schizophrenia and also borderline personality disorder. I did...
05: Online, She is Fully Male
Here’s the story we discuss this week:
“I once shared a story with my daughter (age 14) of a time when my work friends and school friend...