Mothering Anxiety

It's that time of the year again. Where we set goals for ourselves and we try to hold ourselves accountable to complete them by the end of the year. And you might be thinking, "Mireya, didn't you end your Podcast last year saying you didn't accomplish any of your resolutions yet here you are making more?" Why, yes, yes I am. Thanks for noticing.  Take a listen as I talk about the 4 goals I ha...

Yup, I failed this year. . . BADLY. I had set so many resolutions for myself to accomplish for the year of 2022 and literally NONE OF THEM WERE ACCOMPLISHED. None, absolutely NONE.  Instead of beating myself up for it, I decided to look on the bright side and take account of the things that were not on my list but that I was still able to accomplish. Sometimes I feel that we think we have failed b...

Do you ever feel so Anxious that you just kinda explode? On anything, on everyone, at any given moment in time? Because same. I feel that there are times where I am so Anxious and Overstimulated that everything tends to annoy me, get on my nerves, and I end up lashing out for reasons that are purely under my own control. Take a listen as I talk about times where I have lost my cool because my Anxi...

Doesn't it feel that everyone knows what's best for your own child but yourself? I feel that everyone always tries to give their two senses on how to raise YOUR child.  I have had many instances when I've had people in my life try to tell  me that what I was doing with my child was wrong, or that I should try doing something else because whatever it was that I was doing was being done to their sta...

My Daughter started Pre School back in July & she comes home sick at least ever 2 weeks & I am EXHAUSTED. Now add in a newborn baby & the Anxiety heightens to the max. Take a listen on how my Anxiety is during this nasty cold/virus/flu season & how I am beyond paranoid over everything.

Second trimester is over and we are headed to the final stretch. This trimester was definitely where things started to feel and become more real and the worries and anxiety started to come out. How am I going to juggle 2 kids? How am I going to work in so many different schedules? Are my two kids going to get along? Take a listen as I talk about my Anxiety as I exit my second trimester and enter m...

I decided to go back to therapy because there have been a few things I just couldn’t figure out. I’ve been on this healing journey for over 2 years now & I haven’t been able to jump over some hurdles & figure out some stuff about myself & where it stems from. And it turns out, I was looking it at from the wrong diagnoses. I had it all wrong. Take a listen as I talk about how going back to therapy...

I apologize in advance because I feel as if I may have come off a bit harsh on this episode but, I had to say what I had to say. You Are Responsible For Your Own Triggers.  Triggers always make us react based on emotions and a lot of the time, make certain situations escalate. I believe that those of us who are trying to heal, we must learn to figure out our triggers and why we are being triggered...

I didn't realize how long it had been since I made an update on where I am on my journey. Although, I do feel that the ending of Season 3 was more or less a very detailed and multiple episode update on where I am on my healing journey now.  I decided to record a part 3 of my healing journey just to give a little recap on where I am now and where I hope to be whenever it is that I remember to recor...

This week, I felt that I had backtracked on my healing journey for a bit. I felt that I had to revisit many lost and precious milestones to be able to grieve them all over again. That's the funny thing about healing right, it's almost never ending? I felt as if this part of grieving was to learn to forgive myself. Forgive myself for allowing these moments that I will truly never get back again. Th...

I decided to record my thoughts, feelings, worries, and anxieties during each trimester of my pregnancy as they came along. I wanted to record them just as they were happening so these recording were done months prior to publishing. If you listened to my episode on my pregnancy announcement you know that I decided to keep my second pregnancy under the wraps for many reasons including the sanity of...

It is currently almost the end of September and we had Covid LAST December and I am STILL dealing with some everlasting side effects with honestly, only cause me a great deal of Anxiety because I don't know if they will ever go back to normal. I lost my sense of smell and taste and I am still having trouble smelling certain things, certain things that are suppose to smell good smell bad, and I hav...

I have finally decided to share my story (with my Husband's permission too because it is also his story to tell) about my experience as a wife of an Alcoholic and what it did to my Mental Health and Anxiety.  It took me awhile to open up about this because I felt that it was something that I wasn't ready to fully talk about until I was able to fully accept and heal over this portion in our lives....

Do you ever feel like you missed out on "typical learning experiences" because of your childhood trauma? Think about it for a second. Did you never learn how to cook or clean or any other basic survival skills because you were too busy trying to stay busy, trying to stay on someone's good side, or trying to hide? I never really thought about it until one day, I was cleaning soap scum off of my bat...

If you are following my Instagram, you would have seen that a few weeks ago I announced my Pregnancy. Now, you might be asking, why didn't you announce it sooner? And there are very many factors to that which I share about in this episode. Whether it was to protect my Mental Health, because of family drama, or simply because we just weren't ready, I discuss it all here. Take a listen as I talk abo...

I decided to take a 4 week break from Podcasting but in all honesty, I needed a break from Social Media in general. I have been in the "Instagram" world since 2019 without truly ever taking time off for myself, time off for my Mental Health, and time off from Content Creating. As much as I love doing it, it was time for a break and after Podcasting and recording 100 episodes, I figured what better...

Can you believe we have reached 100 episodes and that Mothering Anxiety has been live for 2 years now? How incredible, how insane, but also how EXHAUSTING. Although I am extremely grateful for this journey and all the people I have met, all the people I have helped, all the healing I have done, I must say that I am Mentally Drained.  I never expected this Podcast to become what it is, a very...

Life isn't about finding happiness, it's about finding peace. For so long, I searched every possible way to "be happy" when the reality of it was that all I wanted was some peace and tranquility in my life. In order for me to find that, I had to learn to accept my life for what it was and I had to accept that the people that were in my life were going to be who they were meant to be and there was...

One of the biggest surprises in my healing journey was realizing how much damage I had caused to other people because of my own unhealed trauma. I used to take out my fears, worries, insecurities, and rage out at others simply because I did not know that there was something inside of me that needed to be "fixed." This goes hand in hand with my episode on "Victimhood," but in this episode, I comple...

They say it takes a village to raise a child but like, what happens when you don't have one? What happens when your Mom anxiety doesn't allow you to trust anyone with your child or what if you're on a healing journey and cut out the people that are meant to be your village? Take a listen as I talk about having to raise my daughter without a village because I am a Mother riddling with Anxiety that...

Who here has been personally victimized by their own brain taking them to a whirlwind of comparisons and constantly making them feel like they will never be good enough? Not just me? I can very easily ruin my ENTIRE mood and day simply by scrolling on Social Media and comparing my home, my body, my followers, my life to those that seem to have it "better" than me. Take a listen as I talk about how...

As someone who deals with abandonment issues, losing friends or people along the way of my healing journey has been something that I have very painfully needed to accept. I have always felt that if I lose someone, it was purely my fault, something I did wrong, that they finally realized the burden I was in their life and they decided to leave me. I am still new to this idea that sometimes people a...

I have embarked on this journey for almost 2 years now and there is something that I need to admit I still haven't been able to figure out, haven't been able to overcome, and something that I still deeply struggle with.  I have said, "I am going to learn to love myself," and I have yet to figure out how I still struggle with accepting myself for who I am, appreciating my body, and simply just bein...

Does anyone else feel that they simply do NOT want to engage in social interactions? I know that I have made episodes as being an Introvert and on having Social Anxiety but I have come to a phase in my life where I simply do not CARE to engage with anyone. It seems to take a lot of energy out of me to socialize and even more energy to recover. I have become happy with where I am in life and don't...

 For many years, I was stuck in the Victim mentality. I felt that because I was dealt a crappy hands of cards in life, that I deserved to be shown everyone's un-devoted  love and attention. I would purposely share certain things about my life to simply get pity parties from those who had chosen to be around me.  It wasn't until I embarked on this healing journey that I realized what...