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Podcast Grfaik with Laura Fröhlich and Olli Schmidt
Psyche
06.08.2025 Sabrina Ludwig 551

Episode 39: Strategies against mental load in the family

How can you create a culture of shared responsibility in your family? What strategies help to reduce mental load and have more time as a couple and as a family? Author Laura Fröhlich gives practical tips in the podcast.

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In many families, the mental load - the mental burden of constantly thinking about the many tasks and obligations of everyday life - remains invisible. But the burden is particularly noticeable for mothers. In this episode, we talk to author Laura Fröhlich (Familie als Team, Rowohlt Verlag, 2025) about how role models and social expectations influence family life and what practical approaches there are to reduce this pressure.

Look forward to lots of practical tips that are helpful for both families and single parents.

In this episode you will find out:

  • What is mental load? Which role models and attributions contribute to it?
  • What does it mean to take responsibility in the family ? We clarify the difference between "I'll help you" and "I'll do it".
  • Saying goodbye to the gold standard: Let's talk about the pressure to overperform and how we can optimize family dynamics without making the family function like a business.
  • Establish family rules: Why is it necessary to establish clear rules and responsibilities? 
  • Togetherness and couple time: how do you find time for yourselves and your partner despite all the challenges? 
  • Practical tips and rituals: family meetings, escalation clips and pinboards - every family can find a way

Laura Fröhlich gives you practical tips on how you can start a conversation in your family and which words provide support. She shows that you don't always need perfection to cope with mental load.

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