Sharna Burgess Opens Up About Having ‘Super Dark’ Intrusive Thoughts About Her Baby

Sharna Burgess is getting trustworthy about her “intrusive mom thoughts.”

The Dancing With The Stars alum welcomed her first child with beau Brian Austin Green earlier this 12 months — and since she’s entered the mommy-sphere she’s determined to share some recommendation and classes realized together with her followers and fellow mother and father. On Instagram Friday, the 37-year-old posted a video of herself holding her son Zane whereas the Cardi B “oh my god, what is it?” sound performed over it.

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In the caption of the Australian dancer’s submit, she wrote about her expertise as a brand new mother:

“Intrusive mom thoughts….
This is a real thing. Honestly I thought it was something wrong with my brain at first. These super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.”

She continued to remind her followers these are fully regular issues to expertise and that nobody is alone of their emotions:

“5 months in and I still get them but I have learned to tame them and understand them and most of all.. realized I am not alone. That last one was a huge relief. I guess it makes sense too, we have this massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.”

Sharna expressed how onerous it’s for brand spanking new mothers as a result of they’re by no means warned about this stuff:

“That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was. But now I have tools that I wanna share with all my mamas that may need it like I did/do.”

You can learn the professional dancer’s greatest suggestions (under):

“1. Deep cleansing breaths taking in as much air as you can and hold as you say “I release all thoughts that do not serve me” then management that breathe out imagining these phrases and the sensation they bring about leaving you. Repeat repeat
2. When I want a faster repair I bodily swipe my hand in entrance of my eyes and say “no” and picture that picture being destroyed and gone. I shake it off and name in a reminiscence that I can’t wait to make with Zane. All of the firsts that he has coming.”

Such great suggestions, not only for mothers however for anybody which may be experiencing anxiousness or any sort of intrusive ideas!

Finishing up her submit, she reminded all mommies studying they’re doing nice:

“These are just 2, and they help me tremendously so I hope that they help you too. I have more if you want me to share xx
You’re doing great mama, remember that.”

You can see the complete submit for your self (under):

According to PsychedMommy, analysis exhibits 70% to 100% of all new mothers have intrusive ideas about their infants, with almost half experiencing undesirable ideas of hurt coming to their baby. Not solely that, mothers with beforehand identified with melancholy, anxiousness, or obsessive-compulsive dysfunction have a good higher probability of creating postpartum intrusive ideas. It’s one thing that we should always all work to finish the stigma round and be extra open about sharing.

Reactions, Perezcious readers? Share your greatest mommy suggestions within the feedback (under)!

[Image via Instagram/Sharna Burgess]