Psychology highlights Jessie Buckley's Oscars phrase: A strong message about parenting

Jessie Buckley's touching Oscar speech that moved parents: "The beautiful chaos of a mother's heart."

The winner of the Best Actress award at the 98th Academy Awards was no surprise. Jessie Buckley had long been considered the front-runner for her moving performance in the film Hamnet .

However, the moment she received the golden statuette was deeply emotional for the actress. This was also reflected in her speech, which touched many people and was widely shared on social media.

From this speech, clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, creator of the Good Inside platform and parenting consultant, singled out a phrase that particularly touched her. In a video she posted on Instagram, she said:

“Jessie Buckley said something at the Oscars that I can't stop thinking about: 'I would like to dedicate this award to the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart.'”

According to her, this sentence very truthfully describes the emotional reality of parenting.

"You know that moment when you're counting down the minutes until your child's bedtime? And as soon as he falls asleep, you stand in his bedroom door and feel guilty about how you spent that last hour. Then you think: I wish I could hold him for just one more minute and tell him how much I love him," Kennedy explains.

She adds that parents often try to find the "right" emotion or the "right" reaction, spending a lot of energy trying to be perfect.

“We try to choose the right side, the right feeling, the right reaction. But Jessie put it poetically: parenting is just the beautiful chaos of a parent’s heart. Maybe we don’t need to fix this. Maybe we just need to give it a name.”

Thus, a simple sentence from an actress's Oscar speech turned into a powerful reflection on the emotions of parenthood, touching many people who found themselves in this description.