Vol VII: The Mental Load

We’re back! In Volume VII of What Matters Most, close friends Jacqui Maguire, a clinical psychologist, and Antonia Prebble, actor and presenter, get to the bottom of what the mental load is, how this dynamic occurs, what we can do to change our own behaviours and how we can have those tricky conversations with our partners to create a more equal distribution of tasks in our homes.

It's a conversation that is sure to stir up some thoughts (particularly for women – yip, research shows that 90% of females feel the carry the burden of the mental load), but hopefully it will give you the tools to examine what is happening in your household and how to go about making changes.

If, like Antonia mentioned, you found Jacqui’s tips helpful on how to have a conversation with your partner about the mental load, you might also enjoy Volume II of What Matters Most: How to Have Difficult Conversations.

We’d also like to say a big warm thank you to our wonderful sponsors of this episode: The fantastic folks at Woop, who keep our bellies deliciously full and warm, and the lovely team at Emma who ensure we get a good night’s sleep!

Mentions:

• That wonderful ‘mental load’ comic by French artist Emma (yes, she just goes by one name!), can be found here
• If you want to read more from Allison Daminger – that Harvard PhD Student who researched The Mental Load, you can head here.
• And if you want to read up more about that 2017 study into female breadwinners by a non-profit organisation, you’ll find that here!

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