Mom guilt and parenting during the pandemic with Dr. Tanya Cotler
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode three of Big Time Adulting. This episode features my first official guest on the podcast, who is uniquely qualified to provide insights on mom guilt and parenting during a pandemic.
Dr. Tanya Cotler is a clinical psychologist who specializes in reproductive and maternal mental health and parent-child attachment. Being both a child and adult psychologist, she is the perfect candidate to answer my questions today.
It has been both validating and reaffirming to hear from Dr. Cotler that parenting doesn’t have to be perfect. There is no reason to feel guilty for not breastfeeding, deciding to go with an unpopular parenting style, or even having an emotional outburst in front of your child.
If you’ve ever struggled with mom guilt, felt the intense pressure to become a perfect mom, or have wondered on how to support your child during this pandemic, this episode is for you.
Learn more from Dr. Tanya Cotler through her website, or connect with her on Instagram (@drcotlrer)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to big time adulting the podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Caitlin Murray, and I'm here to take it deep with you on adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever other things end in hood that we can think of. |
| 0:15.0 | It's going to be real, it's going to be honest, and we are going to laugh until a little pee comes out. If you've been looking |
| 0:22.6 | to find a podcast to relate to as a woman and a mom and you're kind of awesome, which you definitely are, |
| 0:28.7 | subscribe now. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello and welcome back to big time adulting. I'm Caitlin Murray, your host, and I have a really |
| 0:43.6 | fantastic guest joining me today, somebody who I found by chance on Instagram and someone |
| 0:52.3 | who's not only reaffirmed a lot of the things I was feeling about motherhood, |
| 0:57.1 | but who is also able to medically substantiate a lot of the things. |
| 1:03.2 | I think we feel deep down about motherhood. |
| 1:06.3 | Today we have Dr. Tanya Kotler, who is a clinical psychologist who specializes in reproductive |
| 1:13.4 | and maternal mental health and parent-child attachment. As both a child and an adult psychologist, |
| 1:21.2 | she is uniquely able to understand and relate to parents and their children. She has extensive training and experience |
| 1:30.6 | working with individuals across the developmental spectrum and a broad range of mental health |
| 1:36.4 | challenges, including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, addictions, trauma, and relational trauma, |
| 1:42.8 | which include loss and bereavement. And so today, |
| 1:47.4 | I have prepared a couple of questions. Hi, Tanya. Would you like to say hello? Hi, Caitlin. I'm so |
| 1:56.4 | excited to be this first guest. I feel so honored. Yes. So this is officially my first podcast recorded |
| 2:03.3 | guest session. And I just did the thing that I wasn't going to do, which was call you |
| 2:09.3 | Tanya. And your name is freaking Tanya. And we just went over this in the pre-recorded session where we were talking. |
| 2:19.2 | But Caitlin, you know, here I go being the psychologist who's not supposed to talk about |
| 2:23.4 | herself right off the bat. |
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