This is a phenomenal book! It is like a beautiful guide to being an amazing, awesome, present Mom. It really read like it was taking and supporting you throughout the book in the most nurturing way possible. Definitely lifted me out of a slump.

A fabulous book for any mother's that need a pick me up. Isn't that all of us? 😅 I don't think there can ever be enough motherhood empowerment books!

Moms who need inspiration will enjoy the conversational, empowering tone of this book. I enjoyed the author's metaphors, and believe many overworked, exhausted but perfectionist-minded moms will relate. The emphasis is on appreciating and accepting where you're at right now. If you need help getting control of your inner critic, you'll want to read this book.

I received an e-copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars
Every Mother has had that moment or maybe moments! Motherhood is too hard. Mom says. I can’t do anything right. So frustrated and fatigued, she sits down and cries. Wintsch wants us to realize that the frustration that the frustration is real, the frustration is self induced. Mothers can slay the dragon! She wants Mothers to cease being super harsh critics of themselves.
Slay Like a Mother addresses the issue of the motherhood drive for perfection. In self assessing, thought provoking exercises, Wintsch provides a base that will allow one to determine what holds you back from really enjoying life. You can silence that negative, bullying voice in your head. When suffering stops, you can recognize the struggles and the steps to adapt and adjust.
Each of us has a dragon in their lives that needs to be slain. This book will help you to determine what the dragon actually is and provides the sword (tools) to slay it.
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Slay Like a Mother, by Katherine Wintsch, is such a great read and a message that all mommas need to hear. I loved learning about the research Katherine Wintsch has completed on this subject, which makes it that much more relatable and impactful.

Looking at the difference between suffering and struggling was as eye opener for me. How often do we allow the chaos and pain to take control and destroy the truth. We allow that voice in our heads to steal, kill, and destroy our joy until we are completely weak and defenseless against the struggle.

I love that this book calls us to more. Katherine asks us to do the work so that we can silence our dragons and stop them in their tracks. Also, what a relief to learn we are not alone?!

I found myself applying these principles to all aspects of my life both personal and professional. I think as women our dragons can tend to focus on one area of our life more than another. At this particular moment this book helped breathe life back into my professional career. Such a great read. I would definitely recommend!

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book!

This book is gorgeous and an absolute must read for every mom!
Motherhood is hard and we set ourselves up to be the best parent possible. The stakes are high and there are so many things out there that tell us the way a perfect mother should be. And when we don't reach those standards we become stressed and feel less than. Wintsch wrote this book to enable mother's to change their line of thinking. To realize that we are good enough the way we are and to stop comparing ourselves to others. We need to change our mindset, stop comparing and focus on being the best parent we can possibly be!

Even though there wasn't anything brand new that I'd never heard of, I still found this to be an easy, enjoyable read. Light, good pace, not too hard on the head. Perfect for us busy moms!

I love the metaphor of the dragon of self doubt. While this book didn't offer anything wildly new or different, I found it helpful and encouraging. Unlike a lot of books targeted towards mothers, it felt inclusive to all women. The metaphor of dragon slaying has really stuck with me and this is a book I could see myself revisiting.

Have you ever felt like you keep failing as a Mother, daughter, sister, wife, friend and person? Do you compare yourself to others? Feel constantly drained but continue to take on more in your quest to be the perfect Mom? This book is for you!

On the outside I like to appear as if I have everything in control, my kids get to school on time, they participate in competitive soccer, I have completed two diplomas after my Bachelor degree while working full time, I volunteer at our local soccer club and life is perfect right? Under all of that, I suffer from severe anxiety and feelings of being unworthy, unloved and never enough. I criticize myself constantly for making mistakes or for forgetting something. I take on more work then I can complete, get mad at myself for doing so and stress myself out to complete everything. As I am typing this, I almost signed up for two more Human Resource courses this term but decided against this as I just don’t have the time.

This book helped me realize that I am not alone. That many women are struggling through the same issues but that this is not normal, we need to learn to be kinder to ourselves, to love ourselves, to forgive ourselves and to give ourselves time. This quote really stuck out for me:

“What’s astonishing to me is that when the cruel voice in our head is giving us a real tongue-lashing, we don’t turn a deaf ear. We don’t tell the voice to shut up, we listen.”

This is me – I would never speak to anyone else the way I speak to me but I don’t hesitate to tell myself how awful I am, how forgetful, how I have gained weight, always late, not smart enough and the list goes on and on.

I worked my way slowly through this novel as I wanted to take in every word and practice each suggestion. I found myself over and over in the other women in this story and it was comforting to know I was not alone. By the time I got to the last page, I felt empowered to make changes, to recognize when I start down the wrong path and how to make changes. Not signing up for those courses this morning was a huge challenge for me, I want that Human Resource Diploma but this would mean sacrificing the little time I have to myself and overstretching myself which not only affects me but my family to.

This book is a welcome eye opener. You laugh, you cry and you can relate to the stories shared throughout the book. I felt humbled and full of hope by the end. That while I am my own worst enemy, I can get better, I can be a good Mother, wife and person. I can learn to be happy and to support others in their journey as well. This book was easy to read and Katherine is personal, funny and down to earth. While it is a book, you feel like she is right there with you, helping you through the exercises. This would be a great gift for any Mother regardless how many children she has. A definite must read!

A guide for all those mothers struggling with self-doubt and the desire to be supermum - to do everything for everyone and bring up perfect children in a perfect home.

Katherine Wintsch frames the book in terms of slaying your personal dragon, who is likely to have been with you for years. She puts in a lot of anecdotes of mums she has worked with in groups over the years, and exercises for you to do to slay your dragon, based on things she has read or used from other self-help guides.

This approach will work very well for some people, however I personally found the dragon motif annoying in its repetition.