Emma Grede

Because I feel like this generational divide is so real, right?

Let's just be like, never in my life of my entire childhood did my mother care about my feeling toward a certain situation.

I mean, bravo.

First of all, you're speaking to the start with yourself lately.

And I think it's a really important point that you make, because if you don't reinforce the idea that you are something other than a mother, you kind of set your entire family up to see you, but nothing...

other than a mother, right?

And so you have to kind of take responsibility for that too.

And I feel like so many of us make ourselves indispensable to our family.

We make our households incapable of running without us.

And then we wonder why everybody's looking to us to do everything.

And so I think that when I think about Start With Yourself, it's that, you know what, everybody in this house can pick things up from the floor and everybody can make a dinner and everybody can contribute.

And so the idea that the mother is going to just be there to constantly service the needs of everybody is,

really dissipates when you've taught everyone that that's not how it is from the get-go.

And so I think that there is so much that I always want to do, but I don't need everybody else to want me to do it too.

So for me, it's just about being really honest about, you know, everybody contributes to this.

It's not like mom number one and then, you know, like...

like a bunch of children.

It's just not how it works.

I mean, a million percent.

And not only that, but the ability for you to be able to meet yourself in the highest possible way, you need to not be dragged down by all of this stuff that everybody else can help with, right?