Do you feel like you're always waiting for something to go wrong? Exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix? Thoughts that won't switch off at 3 AM?

In this episode, Sarah breaks down what's actually happening in your body - what the nervous system is, why motherhood pushes it into chronic overdrive, and why none of it means you're bad at coping. It means you're human and you've been carrying a lot.

We get into the science - polyvagal theory, the vagus nerve, what chronic dysregulation actually looks like in mothers - and the things that genuinely helped. Not a wellness to-do list. The real stuff.

Reflection prompt: Where in your body do you feel the tension? Not the emotions - the physical sensation. Where do you brace, hold, tighten? Just notice.

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When did you stop being you? For most mothers, it doesn't happen dramatically. It's a slow, quiet fade. In this episode, Sarah talks honestly about the identity shift that happens when a woman becomes a mother, why society is largely responsible, and why losing yourself in motherhood is not a personal failing.

We get into matrescence - the seismic identity earthquake of becoming a mother that nobody prepares you for - and what it actually looks like when a mother has lost herself. Spoiler: it doesn't look like sadness. It looks like irritability, resentment, and forgetting what you like.

Reflection prompt: If someone who really loved you asked who you are right now, beyond your role as a mother, what you want to be able to say?

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