Mother's Day <3

About this episode

This episode explores the significance of Mother's Day and the challenges faced by mothers of teenagers, highlighting the invisible work and leadership skills involved in parenting.

Why is Mother's Day in May? And is there a better time? Not really--there's no time of year when moms are just chilling. Pick any month and they're carrying so much. And moms of teenagers are doing some of the hardest parenting of their lives in what looks from the outside like the quiet years. The invisible work of parenting teenagers — the 10pm conversations, the restraint nobody sees, the steadiness you hold so their nervous system can find calm — is also some of the most sophisticated leadership development available to any human being. Science agrees. So does the origin story of Mother's Day itself, which turns out to be far more remarkable than greeting cards would suggest. You'll hear some of what actually happens to a woman's brain through pregnancy and why it's really a superpower, what Psalm 100 says about who you already are, and why the women who founded Mother's Day believed mothers were the steadying force in a fractured world. If nobody's handed you a gold star lately — this one's for you.

People in this episode

Host: Julie Winchester Workman

Topics covered

• Mother's Day
• parenting teenagers
• leadership development
• women's empowerment
• invisible work

Keywords

• Mother's Day
• parenting
• teenagers
• leadership
• women's roles
• invisible work
• psychology
• superpower

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Psalm 100

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