The Overachieving Mother: Why Doing More Is Keeping You Stuck with Emma Morris

If your to-do list is the only thing that makes you feel in control, this one's for you.

This week Shelley and Katherine sit down with Emma Morris, nutritionist, psychology graduate, and someone who has genuinely lived this, to talk about the High-Achiever Mother archetype. The woman who was rewarded her whole life for being capable, competent, and getting it right. Then motherhood showed up with no grades, no KPIs, no gold stars. So she made her own.

Emma breaks down exactly where this pattern comes from, what it looks like in your body (wired at 7am, collapsed by 2pm, jaw clenched, PMS spiking, sound familiar?), and why slowing down feels physically impossible when your nervous system only knows how to cope by doing.

This isn't a lecture. It's a conversation between women who get it.

Follow Emma:

• https://www.instagram.com/emmamorris.co/
• https://www.instagram.com/maiamothers.collective/
• https://www.maiamothers.com.au/

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