Anna Mathur

[CallingDoctorJones]

I really like her. She sent me an incredibly kind, thoughtful reply when I was struggling with a PTSD diagnosis, and I found her posts about intrusive thoughts genuinely helpful. She genuinely engages with her followers. I’m not mad on affiliate links, but they’re always properly labeled and I don’t feel like her feed is full of them.

 

[Noname123]

Oh nooooo I love Anna Mathur! Although I do totally get why people would find her annoying. I’ve got a real soft spot for her for some reason.

 

[NoodlesToodles]

Shes a qualified therapist, she does know better than most.

 

[NoodlesToodles]

Yea of course, someone puts up a counter narrative and it must be the person themselves all I'll say is I've followed her since she was mamas scrapbook and she used to do regular live chats and answer questions, helped alot of folk. She kept getting asked the same questions so put some courses together and free blog posts etc. No one is forced to buy anything from her she gives alot of advice for free. I get that we all have our different opinions, I'm fine with that. I just dont see her in the same league as the good for nothing instamums flogging cheap tat, exposing their kids and begging for new sofs. I can agree to disagree and leave it at that.

 

[Wolf359]

I did used to really like Anna, but the book thing has pissed me off.

She curated a whole feed around being a down-to-earth, busy mum, running a house with three kids while her husband works away during the week. Relatable! I'm just like you! Blah blah blah.

Turns out the whole fucking time she was writing a book! She definitely didn't do that without massive amounts of behind the scenes help. Why couldn't she just be honest? I thought she was being real with us, when in truth she's been upstairs writing from 9-3 while the nanny was looking after the kids and whipping the hoover round. Not as relatable is it?

The way she announced it was like: 'oh I just knocked out a book in between cooking chicken nuggets and doing the night feeds'. It's a lie. And it's lies like that which make women feel inadequate.

'If she managed to write a book while single-handedly looking after three pre-schoolers during the week, why can't I? I can just about manage to blow dry my hair in the morning and remember which day to put the bins out. Why am I so crap? I feel a failure.'

Because it's bollocks.

We could all churn out 300 pages of mediocre mum-lit if we had six uninterrupted hours to ourselves every day.

 

[NoodlesToodles]

Shes the best out there. Nothing like the rest of these twits on insta. I cant think of any way she could be offensive to anyone. I dont see how her posts are staged or contrived. She doesnt hide she has a nice house or nice things but she shows the bad stuff too. She does alot of good and speaks alot of sense to those who need to hear it.
Dont get this one tbh.

 

[Italy2]

You may not agree with me but I think some people use mental health as a escape goat for their mistakes or shortcomings or even to look trendy. Whilst I understand that there are people who actually suffer with mental health issues and really go through alot in life but it is also a very cool idea now that I have anxiety and I'm so cool. Fortunately for Anna she is cashing on the cool trend. If she had joined social media few years later, she may not have been so popular because the industry would be saturated. What I also find with Anna is that she never mentions other mental health organisations or support groups that can lend support to the general public. I find her approach very bandaid approach where she tries to address the problem with long nice words in an ig post or newspaper article or a podcast rather than actually discussing one important aspect, then questioning it and addressing the issue at hand rather than just using words to comfort you like a child..

It's such a shame that a highly sensitive and important issue such as mental health has become a cool insta white rich mummy hot topic to be discussed. I am more likely to relate to a mum who works minimum wage or even a decent living trying to make ends meet with of without support of a family living in a 3 bed semi with her children than a rich career woman like Anna who has endless support and finances available. Also what Anna fails to mention is that her husband Tarun's family owns holiday home in Wales and a nice house down south which shows that they are not your average working class parents. Tarun comes from a privileged family who live comfortably with disposable income which has probably been lent to Tarun for support and development. I really think that these socio economic factors play a huge part in people's everyday living and opportunities in life. Tarun and Anna come from families who have been to universities and have had good financial standing which has been passed down to them and will be passed down to their children. So Tarun and Anna can afford a nanny because they have had support for mortgage and uni from parents. They are not some struggling parents who work at Tesco Dow the road and have serious anxiety and struggles supporting their children. Anna has a nanny, cleaner, admin support for work, Tarun and large social group who they constantly socialise with and that's why she is not genuine and honest to her following when she is trying to relate to the average English mum. She is a very lucky girl but would never count her lucky stars. It's all about moaning moaning moaning for her. Woe is me = Anna!

 

[SpeakingTheTruth]

Why hasn’t this woman got her own thread already!!??!!

Everything is fake or staged!

Jumped on the home interior band wagon to get her followers up before changing to mental health.

Followers messaging her about her being on the front of a magazine. You look nothing like Ann Hathaway!!

 

[Italy2]

It's just the blatant lying and hypocrisy. She grabs your attention by overly complicating her life and constant whinging about how hard her life is and similar to Karen living in a rented house without childcare working a minimum wage job. While Anna is extremely privileged, she went to university, worked hard on her career for years to do well in it, then met someone who has even more successful career and can afford her a very lavish lifestyle. They have lots of luxuries that her audience don't. The constant hypocrisy of Anna to all these poor mums who follow her to constantly shout look at me I'm just like you is so so wrong on so many levels. It is so unprofessional of her to bring business using emotional tools such as 'look at me I'm a woman just like you, I don't have time to do my makeup today just like you, I'm getting therapy just like you, i burnt my dinner today just like you and here buy my therapy sessions and I'll help you as a professional therapist. This is so unprofessional. Imagine solicitors and doctors and dermatologists start going on Instagram to prey clients, prey on their vulnerability then say I'll meet you at office tomorrow to help with your will, your bad skin etc. This is exactly what she is doing... I'm a professional and I realize my privilege in life and I'm very blessed. I'm not the same as someone who fell pregnant at a younger age and didn't have the same opportunities as me in life. And the way Anna is winning business is not the correct way to win business.

She should acknowledge her privilege and accept she is not in the same situation as other mums. You can see her husband is entertaining boys while she is recording her audio book and podcasts. She is going for solo walks while the nanny and husband are looking after children. This is not a woman who is so trapped with kids that she can't look after herself. Anna is a privileged woman with multiplies opportunities to write a book, podcasts etc and she needs to be clear about it. You just don't write a book. You don't wake up and say whoopsie my book is coming out next month. You work months and months for it and have meetings, find a publisher, invested etc. It just doesn't happen like Anna seems to portray. She is a professional business woman who is making all this happen. She is not some poor old mum who runs upstairs to write a book while kids are crying downstairs. She has the opportunity and means to arrange proper childcare to do so and she needs to be grateful for it and acknowledge. She is constantly moaning all day everyday.

 

[Lilinpops83]

Is Anna an addict? Discuss.

Everything is a half admission, wrapped in a ditsy distraction. Admits she is a little controlling. Admits she is a perfectionist but is quite comfy with this (in a cute/Monica type way).

Impression created - she is obsessed with what she looks like and despite the facade, she tries exceptionally hard - all the time - to look damn hot. She is so keen to pretend it’s effortless.

For example - the casual admitting to liking a bit of make-up to cheer herself up.

Make-up, I suspect, is the tip of the iceberg. I imagine there is intense control around food, alcohol, exercise, home furnishings. There is much double bluffing going on with this lady..

She is not daft - she is highly intelligent. But she is searching for people to notice her, to love her, to validate her. She wants more and more and more. It will never be enough.

It seems unimaginable to me that her husband is not fully under the tent on what she posts. She creates another false impression - that we somehow have this special, private insight into her marriage.

All bollocks. Everything is staged. Planned. Executed meticulously. From camera angles, to messy backdrops, to beautiful backdrops.

Smart girl. But perhaps also an addict.

 

[Athousandmilesaway]

How to survive lockdown in 9 easy steps

Get a nanny
Have your hard working husband do all the work
Neglect the boys, just focus on the girl
Get a cleaner
Escape to 1 of your 4 reception rooms
Wear noise cancelling headphones
Sit on insta all day
Have a day time bath
Pretend you dont like noise when in fact you just dont like anyone other than yourself

 

[Athousandmilesaway]

She probably gets the nanny to ride tarun too, save her a job so she can get more stories in

 

[Basicbasic]

Anyone who posts themselves crying on social media for likes is an asshole in my opinion. And how does the hcpc not clamp down on this type of behaviour, it's completely unprofessional to blur your private and professional lives. Imagine having a therapy session with her after seeing the post above!

 

[Goodpup]

Oh a 'migraine' whilst walking through a field talking to her phone When I have one I have to be in a pitch black room and I genuinely want to die. Maybe it's just a standard headache you melodramatic narcissist.

 

[Basicbasic]

Cannot stand her. Everything is fake, practiced and contrived. She has plenty of aff and ads but hides them away in her stories. Her grid is her bread and butter she sells her mental services there and it's remarkable she is allowed to. I find it really unethical because a lot of her followers are there for the mental health stuff, so to reel them in with shitty pancakes and then wham here's a course for you to buy is shady.

Also she has a lovely hubby/ face/ figure/ home etc etc and comes as very disingenuous constantly going on about having a messy home (the mess is ashwarya staged), being a bad cook and being stressed. It's always oh hello guys I'm so stressed today because I just can't say no to people. Btw here's my nice girls course. Swipe up. Wrong.

Finally, the reason i really can't stand her is anyone posting crying photos on Insta is a dick and a narcissist. I once emailed her questioning something she mentioned in a live about coping with anxiety and she was really rude and just referred me one of her expensive courses.

 

[Basicbasic]

She's a compete narcissist, totally in love with herself. That's why she has so many innuendos about being naked, shots of her underwear and snippets about her marriage. Her sense of self-importance is truly delusionary. She's a long faced, horsey toothed, rich housewife-therapist, with extremely poor grammar, living a charmed life and making money from vulnerable mums.

 

[SilverSpoonNotIncluded]

I really enjoy her, I didn't follow her for the interiors back in the day but I can imagine the flip to mental health would be quite different! I really value her openness, and she always replies to DM's and so when she does aff links I genuinely don't mind, I never swipe up, but its clearly labelled. She hardly does AD's and doesn't show off her kids - I respect her.

 

[Basicbasic]

Nothing wrong with having a nanny, but Anna hid it for ages as she wanted to appear relatable. She's so disingenuous and actually if you peel away the layers of fake anxiety and clumsiness you'll find she's a very very privileged white woman making money off the back off vulnerable and less privileged mums. It's appalling that her regulatory body allow this level of manipulation.

 

[Ohflogoff]

Yet again another drama... Whatever happened to practicing gratitude??

Imagine having to walk through woods to get the OTHER car. My heart is bleeding.

ps it’s tyre. Not tire. #justsaying

 

[Basicbasic]

If you watch closely you can tell she has rehearsed everything she's going to say as she watches the timer and knows exactly when it's going to cut off. Contrived to fuck. Rich white bored privileged housewife trying to pretend she's just one of us, struggling with life and 'swipe up for my overpriced course with a discount for everybody because I'M SO BLOODY GENEROUS'.