Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Lauren Muir shares her personal and professional experience with mental health struggles as a mom, specifically the most common issue she sees and calls silent depression. We discuss how to figure out if you have anxiety and depression, find support and make friends as a busy mom. Lauren explains how our childhood experiences impact our parenting and relationships and how to heal your inner child as an adult. We also discuss Lauren’s biggest challenge as a mom of three: going through divorce. She gives ideas for supporting yourself and children through life changes that are helpful for divorce and many other challenges with kids.

We discuss:

-Steps to take if you’re struggling with your mental health

-Making friends and finding your support system as a busy mom

-Navigating grief and supporting kids through divorce and life changes

-Inner child work and how your childhood impacts your parenting and relationships

-Steps for nurturing and healing your inner child as an adult

-How to authentically show up and stop caring what other people think

-Setting boundaries as simple and powerful self-care

If you are looking for ways to improve your mental health and support yourself and kids through life challenges, this episode is for you!

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Self-care can sound daunting and impossible as a busy mom, but it doesn’t have to be when you find simple practices that make sense for the phase of life that you’re in. Yoga teacher and mom of two Helene Kusman is sharing 10 low cost ways to bring self-care into even your most chaotic days in this solo episode. She shares why she started focusing on what she once considered superficial self-care like skincare, hair, makeup and clothing in addition to health routines like movement, hydration and mindfulness.

Helene shares:

-How to incorporate daily exercise realistically for mom life

-Her simple approach for prioritizing yourself when it comes to food

-How, why and when to start a self-care focused skincare routine

-Access to her 5 free guided relaxations to help decrease stress

-Her 3 non-negotiable and delicious daily hydration hacks

-What to wear and not to wear to boost confidence and mental health

-Her life changing mindfulness technique that relaxes your nervous system

-How she started incorporating a basic but much needed hair and makeup routine

-Why you need adult only time and how she did this without childcare

-Simple ideas for much needed solo time with yourself

If you’re a busy mom who struggles with prioritizing yourself and incorporating self-care routines, this episode will give you specific simple, low cost ideas that you can get started on today!

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Dr. Rachel Goldman aka Dr. Rachel is a licensed psychologist in NYC who you may recognize from health and wellness media including recent appearances on Oprah. She shares how to shift your mindset around body image and weight to let go of shame and stigmas. We discuss finding your "feel good weight", body comparison and how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic fit into the conversation. Dr. Rachel also opens up about about her IVF journey and having babies as an "older mom" at 38 and 42.

We discuss:

-Letting go of shame and stigmas around body image

-How the relationship with yourself and self-talk impacts your relationship with others including your kids

-Balancing the pressure or desire to lose weight with mental health needs to feel your best

-The truth about popular GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic

-Dr. Rachel’s IVF journey to avoid a certain gene and her experience having kids at 38 and 42

-Behind the scenes of appearing on Oprah at 6 weeks postpartum

-Dr. Rachel’s tips for managing mental load and integrating self-care realistically for motherhood

This episode is packed with so many takeaways for navigating body image, weight loss, having kids as an older mom and prioritizing your mental health!

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