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Breaking Mum and Dad
- Narrated by: Anna Williamson
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
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A therapist in your pocket, meaning you don't have to face one of life's most momentous experiences alone or fear being judged of the weird and often worrying irrational thoughts that plague your frazzled mind. Mental health for new mums (and dads) is a thing, a big thing, and it's time we all stopped suffering in silence.
It takes time to adjust to this new identity and role, whether it's making new friends, coping with changing relationships, breast and bottle feeding anxiety, going back to work worries or the whole shift being a new parent poses mentally. Breaking Mum and Dad is a guide of empathy, sympathy and, above all, hope.