Understanding the Negative Feelings of Motherhood — and How EFT Helps You work Through Them

You know those feelings you’ve been pretending you aren’t feeling since becoming a mother? The ones that make you second guess yourself and the type of mother you are? Those that you think no other mother is feeling? Those other mothers are hiding too.

Guilt

When you're feeling guilty that your touched out, needing time alone, not enjoying every moment, or not being grateful enough to be a mama.

Rage

When everything keeps stacking up, when you're angry, annoyed, frustrated, when it all just feels too much, It’s all on your shoulders all at once.

Sadness

For the way things were, for the way things are, for missing your old life, for missing milestones, for time passing too quickly.

Resentment

Struggling with being everything to everyone, holding down the fort, maintaining the mental load for the whole family, giving, giving, giving.

Frustration

When the housework piles up, when a simple task takes 3 hours to finish, when you have to wake the baby for school pick up, when the to-do list never ends

Lonliness

When you feel trapped in the house with the baby, like no one understands what you're going through, when it seems everyone is having fun but you, and no one “gets it”

Shame

Of feeling anger or negativity, of not being the “perfect parent”, of enjoying time alone instead of with you kids, of working, or of not working and staying home.

Motherhood is a lot! And you are doing a great job navigating the spectrum of feelings that pop up while you are in the trenches. As mothers, there is a lot put on us, and it can feel overwhelming to hold it all.

You are not alone with this. Acknowledgment, understanding, and compassion can help, as can gentle tools like EFT tapping to help you through.

How Emotional freedom Technique can help

Emotional Freedom Technique can help release trapped negative emotions, re-pattern subconscious beliefs, build confidence and self trust, and create space for these feelings to be felt safely, using a simple holistic client-centred approach. It allows space for you to acknowledge the feelings that are coming up for you, and work through them, creating a gentle release and more clarity and calm. Honouring these feelings that aren’t so nice to feel is a way to honour your whole self as a mother.

We can feel so bombarded and under pressure from this motherhood role that we can hold these feelings in our body without realising it. With EFT, you feel these negative feelings - yes, actually feel them (it’s good, I promise), and the gentle tapping motions helps to release them. You leave a session feeling calmer, lighter, and more in control.

Want to experience what it feels like to let go of these heavy feelings? Book an EFT appointment here

Pregnant and finding navigating these feelings a challenge? Join an EFT Pregnancy Circle locally of online here