Struggle with Anxiety as a Mom - The Causes of Anxiety in Motherhood

Anxiety can be a struggle for anyone, but it can be helpful to drill down on why anxiety is a struggle by seeing it from your specific perspective. This is why we have 5 possible reasons why moms struggle with anxiety & seeing it from the motherhood experience.

Show Notes:
I had already struggled with anxiety before becoming a mother. It was something I dealt with because of my need to fit in & measure up to what everyone else was doing. But when I became a mother, my anxiety did increase a considerable amount.

It was more induced by not knowing exactly how to be the best mom I could be to this little being that joined us in the world. I had studied child psychology in school because I was on pace to become a child psychologist, but just because you read all the books and even have time watching & bringing up other kids doesn’t mean you will know exactly what to do with your own kid.

So for me, my pre-existing anxiety turned into something greater and a little harder to deal with.

Anxiety is a big deal for anyone that struggles with it. There is no categorized group of people that struggle more or less, it’s all just in a different way. But I think it’s important to speak on those differences and how anxiety can become a struggle, depending on the perspective you’re coming from in that season of life. And taking a look at anxiety through the motherhood perspective can be helpful in understanding where it could be coming from & how it’s still sticking around and/or getting worse.

I honestly can’t tell you how the idea of speaking on having anxiety as mom came to be, but I remember sitting on the couch in my living room and it popped into my head and I immediately started researching it. And as I was thinking over it more and more, I realized it could be a really great episode to speak on and better understand why moms struggle with anxiety and what to do to manage it.

Today, I am going to talk about some of the reasons moms can struggle with anxiety. The next episode will be about how to manage anxiety as a mom.

Let’s get into 5 possible reasons moms struggle with anxiety:

1. Financial Pressures 
2. Social Expectations of Being a Mom
3. Previous Trauma/Experiences
4. Work-Life Balance 
5. Lack of Sleep

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