Mind Over Mother: Every mum's guide to worry and anxiety in the first years

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With conversations on Maternal Mental Health on the rise, and more women speaking up about the way they feel, Anna Mathur’s insight as a psychotherapist AND mother make her someone you feel you can trust. Whilst I would have agreed a few years ago, sighed and eye-rolled with a half-smile, it saddened me because I now believe there is more for all of us.

Habits are habits because they are so much easier to engage in, regardless of how unhelpful they are. Anna has three children of her own and as well as being a professional in understanding how the mind works, she also has first hand experience of anxiety, following the arrival of her children. I so wish I had this book when I was a young first time mum, the content of this book makes you feel so human and not alone when you navigate the early years of parenting! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A beautifully designed book full of inspiring quotes and tried-and-tested wisdom on using positivity to create a life you love.From the moment you get pregnant you are infiltrated with baby books on how to be the "perfect mother" whilst being surrounded by opinions and views.

This book has taken my understanding to a whole new level and to a place where I feel much less alone in my battle and I now have some practical tools I am looking forward to exploring as I continue my journey. I found it a decent overview of how anxiety might manifest during motherhood, and some of it was helpful and comforting, such as the examples of health anxiety and intrusive thoughts. I could understand the first chapter being a run down of anxiety but I picked this up expecting a bit more and I don’t have the time to keep reading to see if it gets deeper.

I have realised a lot about my own emotions and how my self-preservation behaviour is actually not protective but is mostly holding me back. In Mind Over Mother, Anna Mathur, psychotherapist and mum of three, explains how to: * Understand anxiety, why it affects you and what to do about it* Make your mind a kinder, calmer, happier place to be* Transform your motherhood experience by addressing your thinking The most powerful tool Anna has to communicate this isn't the letters after her name, it is the fact that she is open about her own experience of maternal anxiety. I have bought it for three of my friends as a gift, who I know will find it just as resourceful and positively life-changing for their own experiences of motherhood. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . This book reminds you of the amazingness that you are as a mum, whilst giving you the massive hug you need to get through all those moments you think you won't survive.

It is the one book that all mums - expectant, new and older mums - should have as a reference, a moment of self-care / support and a voice of reason. And because it has become culturally acceptable, we forget that we can do something to change it and make things better for ourselves. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'With conversations on Maternal Mental Health on the rise, and more women speaking up about the way they feel, Anna Mathur's insight as a psychotherapist AND mother make her someone you feel you can trust. I also hadn't realised that I had suffered with mild PTSD after the birth of my eldest daughter - it was like a lightbulb moment making sense of that time. As I was listening I felt I was going over every chapter of my life, and have gained a better insight into how things have impacted on me.

She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. Anna's words are like a blanket that wrap you up and give you great comfort, helping you to realise you are not alone in what you are feeling. Anxiety is making motherhood a less pleasant, more fraught and pressured experience, and we do not have to accept joy-sapping worry and energy-draining overthinking as part of the motherhood job description. Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

A really great tool for working through current anxieties or worries but also for being aware of how to cope and manage for any future anxiety to come. The book is marketed as a guide to worry and anxiety in the first year, but having read it, I can see this adding value at any stage of motherhood.This book and the insight Anna shares on her Instagram and podcasts has truly helped me become a calmer, happier, more content and confident mother. Perhaps you recognise the general feeling of fear bubbling in the background like white noise that has become part of the soundtrack to your life. Anxiety in motherhood is more common that you think and psychologist, Anna Mathur has written a book all about it.