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COPING WITH GUILT

AS A MOTHER, I’m vulnerable to the influence of our cultural messaging and I have fallen prey to the narrative: “We can never give enough, do enough or be enough.”

As a psychologist, though, I know how risky this constant thread of guilt is for our well-being. Guilt can be helpful as an uncomfortable emotion that motivates us to make amends and change hurtful behaviours, but in the case of parent guilt, much of the time we are only hurting ourselves.

Enter a global pandemic that has shattered our already precarious parenting lives and provided ample evidence of

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