Mom Guilt Isn't a You Problem. It's a Culture Problem.
The Myths of Motherhood: Why "Good Mother" Has Never Meant One Thing ft. Dr. Shari ThurerWhat if everything you think you know about what makes a "good mother" isn't instinct, isn't biology — it's just the story our culture happens to be telling right now?In this episode of That Mom, I talk with Dr. Shari Thurer, a psychoanalytically trained psychologist and author of The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother. Dr. Thurer wrote the book nearly three decades ago, driven by her own fear (common among working mothers of her generation) that having a career might somehow…
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