Mental load

How To Unload The Mental Load. 7 Tips For Sharing The Mental Load, And Finally Giving Your Tired Mom Brain A Break

It's yet another thing women are often tasked with in their families — and it's exhausting.

Use this chart to keep track of who is taking on the mental load and how happy you are about it. The mental load is invisible work that keeps lives organised and household running.

What is mental load and why should you care? Check out this post to learn about the invisible labor that is damaging your career, health, and relationships.

Want you husband to actually help with some of that invisible labor that adds to the mental load of motherhood. Then he needs to read this.

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Parenthood is hard AF. Filter Free Parents provides parental tips and commentary for all kinds moms and dads as they journey through parenting.

So many of us end up becoming the “preferred parent” without realizing it–the one who our children turn to first for every snack, every boo-boo, and every need. It can come with a lot of frustration, overwhelm, or resentment (often leading to guilt and shame). We might think we should WANT to be the preferred parent or that we should be “grateful.” But the truth is that it’s HARD. And it’s okay to feel the weight of that. Credit: @momwell

But, when I talk about the mental load I carry, it isn't meant to be an insult to men everywhere. To me, it's not a competition.

Check out Hearth's guest blog post by Denaye Barahona Ph.D., founder of Simple Families, to learn more about how she learned to manage the mental load and how she's helped thousands of women do the same through her course, "The Mental Unload".