The Psychology Sisters

Hello and welcome back to The Psychology Sisters Unfiltered!! Love and leaves Love – Carmen’s black truffle popcorn Leaves Dyson vacuums Aimee's peek: time with family and friends lately and pit: experiencing social awkwardness and anxiety, which is very new and uncharted waters to navigate. In a clunky stage of life at the moment!! Also, illness has plagued me! Kat's pit: slapped in the face with sneaky burn out that crept up. Struggling with motivation, exhaustion, struggling to sho...

Welcome back to The Psychology Mama’s — the podcast that holds space for your full emotional spectrum and cheers you on when you finally drink a coffee while it’s still hot. Today, we’re diving into one of the most universal yet wildly under-discussed parts of early parenthood: sleep deprivation — or more accurately, the full-blown nervous system crisis that comes from being woken up every 90 minutes by a tiny dictator in a Bonds onesie. We’re talking about how a lack of sleep messes with y...

In today’s episode we are diving deep into the ambivalent attachment style, where it comes from, how it shows up in your relationships and how you can start rewiring it. If you often feel like you’re too much and not enough or constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop in relationships, this one is for you. Understanding Attachment: o Attachment is a biological system, its innate. o Attachment is developed within relationships o People with adverse childhood experiences, experience ...

hello lovely listeners!! Welcome back to another unhinged/ unfiltered episode! Loves and leaves: Kat's love this week is a fun, easy, watch on Netflix - Ransom Canyon. Aimee has been loving going back to comfort consumption in Grey's anatomy on Disney+. No leaves this week, just love!! Pit and Peak of the week: Aimee discusses being in the tension of trade offs of getting the things you choose. Being in a transition stage can be tricky because it requires re-prioritising things. Th...

Hello lovely listeners! Join us for a very unfiltered chat discussing some concerning trends we are seeing making the rounds on social media. Why are we going back to trends that we know have been so damaging? Before we get into today's episode, Kat shares her pit of struggling with a loud inner critic and her peak of exciting business ventures, feeling aligned with work and enjoying the ride. Aimee shares an embarrassing couch blunder as her pit and a peak enjoying some wholesome time ...

Hello hello! Welcome back for a deep dive into hyper-independence. Independence is praised a lot in our society and often described as a strength, so can you be too independent? Here's a little summary of what we dive into: Signs of hyper-independence, how would you know if you were too independent?Hyper-independence is often a solution to instability and inconsistency e.g. if family is unstable the solution is my own rules for security and certainty. Rules and self-reliance compen...

Hey Mamas- welcome back to the first episode of The Psychology Mama's for the year! What is Matrescence and WHY did nobody teach us about it?! Well join us as we unpack the language around the fourth trimester and why one word in particular matters sooooo much! We discuss: •Transition to motherhood is forever •The motherhood mask •Anger and rage •Perfectionism and the shift •Expectations Vs social narratives around motherhood: being able to do it all •Guilt •Worldvie...

Please take care while listening to this episode. Especially if you have experienced pregnancy loss, infertility or if you are currently experiencing a high-risk pregnancy, as the content in this episode may be triggering. To our Psychology sista's and mista's, welcome to episode 3 “Birth, baby and becoming - understanding the psychological side of birth”, we want to acknowledge that it is a privilege to carry and birth a healthy baby. We acknowledge our own bias's, privilege, and agency in ...