The Myth of the Easy Baby: Fear, Perfectionism and the Truth About Motherhood with Dr Tuesday Watts-Overall

You mentioned to me that you're in your kind of truth telling era.

And tell me if I got this wrong, but that when you first started showing up, maybe it was a bit more expert led.

You're thinking you had to do it that way.

You didn't quite... perhaps attract as many people didn't but once you started talking from this raw authentic kind of fear yeah the uncomfortable feelings that's when people started to take notice and

connect completely like I think I'd been kind of dwelling in the social media space for two or three years just feeling really lost like I was just really in this feeling of lostness and it was from that place when I just I really felt like there's nowhere else to go like yeah I don't know what else to say apart from what I'm feeling right now and what I'm living and I did that I just said it and And overnight,

everything, literally

overnight, everything changed.

And like this time last year, or maybe slightly further down, it was in the summer last year, I said to a friend, I just I want to walk away from it all because I feel like I'm crushing myself.

by trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do, and I feel like I can't figure out what that is, and it's crushing me, and I can't find the answers.

And my friend just said to me, what do you enjoy? Like, what's your joy? And I was saying, you know, I love writing, I love just expressing, and she's like, just follow your joy and see where it takes you.

And it was like, once I removed that pressure to fix and to offer solutions and... you know and and not to fix myself either yeah just to say it that was when everything changed and literally my life as i knew it like overnight has changed

Yeah, and I think that's probably, you know, quite reflective of the audience who follow you is that they've probably had periods of trying to fix themselves.

Yes, they have.

Other people have said you need to find the solution and actually to have somebody boldly, you know, say I'm not here to or suggest that you need to find a solution.

Yeah.

But let's talk.

Yes.

And let's share.

Exactly.

That's so refreshing for them.

Yes,

I think that's exactly it.

But I think also it reflects something that was lost in this village that we once had.

Because, you know, we all talk about this village.

You know, we've lost our village.