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Show Notes: Becoming a Mother
Dr Koa Whittingham (Parenting from the Heart – www.koawhittingham.com) shares some wonderful advice and tools for smoothing the transition when becoming a mother, through a discussion of her book “Becoming Mum”.
Summary
- Psychological transition to motherhood includes:
- Recreating a rich and rewarding life.
- Constantly keeping track of another dependent person.
- Forming a new relationship.
- Becoming Mum
- Evidence-based guide through the transition to motherhood
- Grounded in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and other Cognitive Behavioural Therapies including:
- Compassionate Mind Therapy
- Behavioural activation
- Incorporates Attachment Theory.
- Fourth Trimester.
- Grounded in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and other Cognitive Behavioural Therapies including:
- Mindful Practice – Keeping yourself in the here and now – while you are doing anything.
- Particularly enriching during interactions with children.
- Find the rewarding elements of settling crying babies – focus on the moment not what you want/need to be doing.
- Mindful walks.
- Particularly enriching during interactions with children.
- Listen for the Mindfulness of Child Meditation from the book.
- Role of Values.
- Values are what matters most to you. They can never be acheived, they guide you every day.
- There are many different ways to live the same values.
- Mindfulness is powerful, but needs Ethics or Values to direct you in the direction you want to go.
- Listen for a values-finding exercise.
- Evidence-based guide through the transition to motherhood
Links
- Becoming Mum can be bought directly from the Becoming Mum Website, is on Amazon, and most other online bookstores. If it is not in your physical bookstore, please request it.
- Parenting from the Heart: www.koawhittingham.com.
- Dr Koa Whittingham’s Meditations.
- Possums Sleep Intervention: Possums Online, and Feed your baby to sleep – The possums sleep intervention new recommendations and Podcast Episode PRP017.
For more great resources on Mindfulness and ACT for parents, check out these links:
- Free Mindfulness Meditation App for pregnant couples: Mind the Bump .Org .Au
- 9 Tips for Mindful Mothering
- ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with attachment with Newborns
This is the 3rd Episode in the series, here are links to the rest of the series:
- PRP014: Angry Parents Part 1 Acting inline with values despite anger
- PRP015: Angry Parents Part 2 Acting inline with values despite anger
- PRP016: Becoming a Mother
- PRP017: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 1
- PRP018: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 2
- PRP019: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 3
- PRP020: The Possums Sleep Intervention Part 4
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