Unraveling Motherhood is a unique exploration of the transformative experience of motherhood, delving into its mental and emotional impact.
This insightful book includes conversations and real insights about maternal mental health, identity, vulnerabilities, and more, offering support to anyone lost in the blur of overwhelming thoughts and emotions.
Honest, reflective, and relatable, Unraveling Motherhood provides a motivational toolkit for navigating the complexities of motherhood. Drawing from her own experiences with mental well-being, author Geraldine Walsh discusses various aspects of motherhood, helping readers untangle their roles and find balance.
Unraveling Motherhood combines research, personal experiences, and practical processes to leave readers feeling validated and empowered. The book includes helpful insights on how to view situations differently and listen to one's mind in appropriate ways, along with discussions with psychologists, exercises, and journaling.
Key topics include:
• Handling Expectations vs. Reality: Learn how to manage the gap between expectations and the reality of motherhood.
• Managing Wellness and Mental Health: Strategies for maintaining wellness and mental health during the early months and years of motherhood.
• Developing Healthy Habits: Tips for fostering proper and holistic self-compassion.
• Reconciliation of Identity: Guidance on reconciling your identity before and after becoming a mother.
• Identifying Outside Influences: Understanding how culture, friends, family, and media affect your self-evaluation as a mother.
Unraveling Motherhood considers motherhood as a tightly woven knot of physical, mental, emotional, and social changes, and seeks to unravel that knot. Unraveling is good; stitching up is better-but when the pattern is not working out the way we hoped, we must first unravel to start again.
Autorentext
Geraldine Walsh is a freelance journalist and writer. She is a frequent contributor to the Irish Times, along with various magazines and websites on parenting, wellness, and mental health, most notably Family Friendly HQ and Mums & Tots magazine. She was a Medical Librarian, but pivoted to pursue a lifelong ambition for writing. Geraldine is passionate about opening the conversations we are often afraid to share and will always be happy to talk about her journey with postnatal depression and anxiety. She lives in Dublin with her husband and their two young daughters.
Klappentext
A unique exploration on the transformative experience of motherhood delving into the mental and emotional impact of giving birth and raising a child.
Written by a mother of two and a journalist, Unraveling includes conversations and real insights about self-care, mental health, identity, vulnerabilities, and more. This book is a toolkit for new mothers and struggling mothers who are lost in the blur of the voices in their minds, the mental load, and the overwhelm.
Each chapter discusses aspects of motherhood, all pertaining to how one navigates this role. Included within chapters will be insights to help look at situations differently and listen to one's mind in appropriate ways with added discussions with psychologists, exercises, and journaling. Some key content featured are:
• How to handle expectations vs. the reality of motherhood
• Managing wellness and mental health during the early months/years
• Developing healthy habits for proper and holistic self-care
• Learning to reconcile identity before motherhood to the one afterwards
• Identify "outside influences" (culture, friends/family, media, etc.) which affect how to evaluate yourself as a mother
Unraveling considers motherhood as a tightly woven knot of physical, mental, emotional and social changes-and then seeks to unravel that knot. Unraveling is good. Stitching up is better. But when the pattern is not working out the way we were hoping, we must first unravel to start again.