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The Mental Load Diaries

How I learned to juggle life, love and the neverending to-do list

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The Mental Load Diaries

By: Cat Sims
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 ‘A reassuring manifesto on the role of women today’ - Dawn O’Porter

‘This book - and Cat Sims generally - helps me to breathe a bit easier. My shoulders drop, my jaw relaxes, and I know everything is going to be OK.’ - Bryony Gordon

‘The kind of book that makes you want to high five the author.’ - Cherry Healey

‘The only book you need to save mind, body, life, soul and marriage. Just. Could. Not. Put. Down.’ - Anna Whitehouse

The mental load isn’t just about doing all the stuff. The mental load is constantly thinking about having to do all the stuff, and then, when you forget to do some of the stuff, the mental load is also about beating yourself up about that, while still trying to keep in mind all the other stuff you’ve got to do.

In The Mental Load Diaries, writer, content creator, podcaster, wife and mum Cat Sims describes the devastating impact the mental load had on her own happiness, mental health and marriage.

With eye-opening honesty and her trademark dry humour, Cat offers a blunt but ultimately hopeful appraisal of society and women’s experience of it.

This necessary book will incite honest conversation, make you feel less alone and give you the confidence to invite your loved ones to share the mental load. Gender Studies Motherhood Parenting & Families Personal Development Personal Success Relationships Social Sciences Marriage Emotions Thought-Provoking

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Brilliant listen- relatable, validating, honest and funny. Feels like having a chat with a friend who has been through what you are going through and can offer some words of wisdom and hope!

relatable, validating, honest and funny

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Amazing, incredible, though-provoking, emotional, funny, very well written. A book has never spoken to me more. Thank you Cat!

The new bible!

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I follow Cat on Instagram and have done for a long time. I appreciate how she is very aware of her own privileges, whilst writing candidly with a no-holds-barred account of her experiences with the mental load of adulthood, how that relates to her upbringing, and the role she has taken on in her home life as a working mother. I also love how she touches on same-sex dynamics of a couple of her friends’ relationships and how these play out with regards to the mental load. And also how her husband Jimmy is given a voice with interviews with him interspersed within the book.
Thanks Cat for writing a much needed account of how the mental load can make or break relationships and also giving us all real-life tips to take into our own lives.
A must-read!

Really relatable book for anyone who has struggled with the mental load of adulthood, but specifically motherhood!

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Anyone that suffers with the mental load needs to read/listen to this! Amazing and beautifully read. Also love the bits with the husband

Amazing 🤩🤩

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Brutally honest and accurate. An incredible book, I recommend to any mother trying to juggle. We are not alone!

I’ve never felt more seen, heard and less alone

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