What would happen if you could silence that little voice is your head that keeps shouting at you, telling you that you're a failure, that you're unreliable, that you're not good enough...?
According to research published in PubMed, caring for children with disabilities has a negative effect on mothers’ labour market participation, working hours and labour income. This is a huge societal issue with more needing to be done on a policy level to equal the playing field and make work accessible to mothers who want to work while caring for a child with a disability.
That kind of change takes time and thankfully, there are lots of people working on it.
There's also something else that can hinder working parent carers access to opportunities and it's something we can have more control over - our inner critic.
The little voice inside our head that pretends to be our friend. That tells us we need to play it safe, that we're not good enough, knowledgable enough, employable en ough, reliable enough...
It's that voice that can block the solutions that could help us to work and care, that stops us from asking for the help we need and that keeps us feeling like nothing we do is ever enough because we're always exhausted.
In this episode, we look at what the inner critic is, explore how to differentiate between the unhelpful inner critic, and the helpful voice of realism, and I'll give you 3 handy tips for flipping the script on your inner critic so that you can problem solve more effectively, apply for the promotion, start your own business or do whatever it is that the helpful voice had made you realise is possible.
If you like what you hear, please share and follow our new social media handle @CarersAtWork
What would happen if you could silence that little voice is your head that keeps shouting at you, telling you that you're a failure, that you're unreliable, that you're not good enough...?
According to research published in PubMed, caring for children with disabilities has a negative effect on mothers’ labour market participation, working hours and labour income. This is a huge societal issue with more needing to be done on a policy level to equal the playing field and make work accessible to mothers who want to work while caring for a child with a disability.
That kind of change takes time and thankfully, there are lots of people working on it.
There's also something else that can hinder working parent carers access to opportunities and it's something we can have more control over - our inner critic.
The little voice inside our head that pretends to be our friend. That tells us we need to play it safe, that we're not good enough, knowledgable enough, employable en ough, reliable enough...
It's that voice that can block the solutions that could help us to work and care, that stops us from asking for the help we need and that keeps us feeling like nothing we do is ever enough because we're always exhausted.
In this episode, we look at what the inner critic is, explore how to differentiate between the unhelpful inner critic, and the helpful voice of realism, and I'll give you 3 handy tips for flipping the script on your inner critic so that you can problem solve more effectively, apply for the promotion, start your own business or do whatever it is that the helpful voice had made you realise is possible.
If you like what you hear, please share and follow our new social media handle @CarersAtWork