Homeschooling Pushed Me to My Breaking Point | The Forties Formula In Focus

That is such a relatable story, I think, for any mother and probably for any women without children.

Just obviously your triggers are your triggers.

Kids are very easy.

And obviously the overstimulation and the noise and all that makes it very, very common.

But just that understanding that there is only so much that a human body and a human brain can take.

And once you reach that point, there isn't any coming back from it.

And I think, you know, what you're experiencing, Anna, is so shared by all of us and also are the reaction, the guilt and the shame, because that's exactly where I've gone after my own episodes that sound like yours and Jasmine, I'm sure you can relate as well.

Totally, totally.

And this is the thing is because that's not you.

And you know, you're not that person.

You know that this is not how you would behave in a normal situation.

And you kind of mentioned the word rage right now.

Would you say that rage and anger are just words that you can use interchangeably? Like how would you describe the two or would you say that they're completely different?

Yeah, I think anger is the thing that like knocks on the door.

You know, anger is a really healthy, necessary emotion that alerts us to the fact that maybe a boundary has been crossed.

There's some injustice going on here.

You know, one of our values is at stake.

Maybe something, someone's wronged us.

And anger is that really, really healthy and important emotion.

We don't want to eliminate that.

Like think of all of the initiatives and the charities and the amazing things going on in our world that have come out of that place as someone sitting there and going, you know what, this is not okay.

And that's so, we need anger.

But I think rage is what happens when we haven't tuned in to what, we haven't listened to that anger.

You know, when I think about that moment where I exploded and I've had other moments like that, and I probably always will have little moments like that.

But ultimately, I had signals.