How to Quiet the Mean Voice in Your Head | Katherine Wintsch
How to Quiet the Mean Voice in Your Head | Katherine Wintsch 3/16/15, 9:28 AM iOS app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-huffington-post/id306621789?mt=8) Desktop Alerts Log in Create Account Android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.huffingtonpost.android&hl=en) More (/big-news/#parents) March 16, 2015 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parents) Edition: U.S. Like 734k Follow Newsletters Huffington Post Search FRONT PAGE HEALTHY LIVING TEEN WOMEN (HTTP://WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM) (HTTP://WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM/HEALTHY- (HTTP://WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM/TEEN/) (HTTP://WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM/W Parents (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parents/) • Moms (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-moms/) • Dads (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-dads/) LIVING/) • Pregnancy (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-pregnancy/) • Babies (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-babies/) • Toddlers (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-toddlers/) • Kids (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-kids/) • Teens (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-teens/) • Global Motherhood (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/global-motherhood/) • Back To School (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-back-to-school/) • Third Metric (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/third-metric/) • Healthy Kids (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/parents-healthy-kids/) • Love Matters (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/love-matters/) Safari Power Saver Click to Start Flash Plug-in HOT ON THE BLOG Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors Maria Shriver Mika Brzezinski (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mikashriver/help-me-wipe-out- brzezinski/syria-one- alzheimers- womans- now_b_6876890.html? story_1_b_6872474.html? utm_hp_ref=Parents) utm_hp_ref=Parents) Dr. Peggy Drexler Stedman Graham (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stedmandrexler/mean-people-suck- graham/passion-with-a- but-they-are-often- purposefro_b_6839142.html? successful_b_6867734.html? utm_hp_ref=Parents) utm_hp_ref=Parents) Katherine Wintsch (/katherine-wintsch/) Become a (/users/login/) (http://twitter.com/kwintsch) fan (/users/becomeFan.php?of=hp_blogger_Katherine Wintsch) Founder & CEO: The Mom Complex How to Quiet the Mean Voice in Your Head Posted: 02/10/2015 1:10 pm EST Updated: 02/10/2015 1:59 pm EST ADVERTISEMENT Safari Power Saver Click to Start Flash Plug-in 44 (javscript:void(0)) Like 8 Share (https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fkatherine-wintsch%2Fhow- 8 to-quiet-the-mean-voice-in-your-head_b_6640046.html) Tweet (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet? 0 lang=en&text=How+to+Quiet+the+Mean+Voice+in+Your+Head+%40huffPostBlog++http%3A%2F%2Fhuff.to%2F1y8lSXC) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-wintsch/how-to-quiet-the-mean-voice-in-your-head_b_6640046.html Page 1 of 4 How to Quiet the Mean Voice in Your Head | Katherine Wintsch 3/16/15, 9:28 AM (http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi.huffpost.com%2Fgen%2F1900329%2Fimages%2Fn- 0 SLEEP-APNEAComment large570.jpg&description=How+to+Quiet+the+Mean+Voice+in+Your+Head&url=http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine- wintsch/how-to-quiet-the-mean-voice-in-your-head_b_6640046.html) Life can be exhausting. Especially if you're a mother. Yes, because of all the physical demands of cleaning up bodily fluids, buckling and unbuckling seatbelts, and navigating through pumpkin patches and sibling rivalries... but even more so because of the very critical and very cruel voice in our own heads saying (or in my case yelling) that we're not doing it well enough. After I became a mother in 2007, the mean voice in my head pointing out all my deficiencies and inadequacies got louder and louder. Why is it so hard for you to get this parenting thing down? Everyone else has it figured out. How could you possibly miss that school event for a meeting? Get your priorities straight! SUGGESTED FOR YOU What must other moms think of you? As the voice got louder, I started working harder to prove it wrong. Putting my two children to bed, then working until midnight from my laptop on the couch. Baking cupcakes for school events, then racing to the airport for a business trip. I wanted to prove I could do it all -- but continued to believe I was getting it all wrong. 1. Hilary Duff's Bikini Selfie Is For All The Moms Out There Finally, I couldn't take it anymore. The mean voice in my head was making me so mentally and physically bone-tired and exhausted that I knew I needed to do something drastic. Since I couldn't escape the voice, I decided to expose it. I took to the TEDx stage and told the world that I had no idea what I was doing. And I asked the mothers of the world if they felt the same. Turns out they do. 59 minutes ago huffingtonpost.com The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com (AOL) Cavan Sieczkowski Cavan Sieczkowski Most Popular on HuffPost 2. Jessica Alba Doesn't Look Like This Anymore 21 hours ago huffingtonpost.com The Huffington Post HuffingtonPost.com (AOL) Lauren Zupkus Lauren Zupkus Most Popular on HuffPost 3. A Cheerleader Was Bullied During A Game. What Happened Next Will Amaze You Admitting my vulnerability out loud changed my life. 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