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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Women’s Health RD Kaely McDevitt shares tips for understanding your hormone health and addressing common imbalances with diet and lifestyle considerations. She breaks down the phases of our cycle and how to use that data to not only prevent or get pregnant, but also to align what’s happening in your life to what’s happening in your body.

We take a deep dive into tracking your cycle using basal body temperature, cervical fluid and positioning, as well as all of the different options for hormonal or non-hormonal birth control. Kaely explains some of the pros and cons of different methods through a non-judgmental and informative lens.

At the time of recording Kaely is 35 weeks pregnant and shares what she did to prepare for conception, pregnancy and get ready for postpartum.

We discuss:

-How to align your life with the different phases of your cycle

-Tracking your cycle with basal body temperature, cervical fluid, cervical positioning and ovulation tests, known as the Fertility Awareness Method (FAM)

-Birth control methods including the differences between hormonal and non hormonal options

-The roles of hormones in our body like progesterone, testosterone, estrogen and cortisol

-Detecting and addressing common hormone imbalances

-Common diet and lifestyle mistakes to avoid when balancing your hormones

-How Kaely prepped her body for conception, her pregnancy self-care and what she’s doing to get ready for postpartum

-Kaely’s tips for getting enough protein and protein packed breakfast ideas

If you’re overwhelmed by, but want to understand and optimize your hormone health, this episode is for you!

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Listen in on the honest, real and relatable struggles of motherhood, packed with tips for finding support and experiencing more joy with Dr. Mona Amin. She opens up about her birth trauma, postpartum complications, anxiety and depression and how to navigate the ups and downs of parenting with resiliency.

Dr. Mona is a board certified pediatrician, IBCLC, mom of 2 and creator of the PedsDocTalk platform and podcast. She is the go to resource for the intersection of motherhood, mental health, kids health and parenting. In this episode, Dr. Mona challenges the culture of motherhood “martyrdom” and shares actionable steps for reducing mental load and overwhelm.

We discuss:

• Mona’s 3 life-changing strategies for managing mental load and overwhelm in motherhood to find more joy

• Putting together your support team to prioritize mental and physical health

• How to effectively communicate with your partner to express your needs

• Tips for navigating judgement and mom-shaming on polarizing topics like infant sleep, feeding and vaccinations

• The truth about percentiles and how to avoid percentile anxiety and future issues around food and body image

• Mona’s traumatic births, postpartum complications, hospital stay, NICU stay and health issues with her first baby

• Her intuition that something was wrong and discovering scar tissue in her uterus and a fluid blockage (hydrosalpinx) of her fallopian tube

• Going through IVF to conceive her second baby after having her fallopian tube removed

• Mona’s subsequent postpartum complications and being diagnosed with the rare condition Vernix Caseosa Peritonitis

• Her experience with postpartum anxiety and depression and how to identify when you need help from a professional

• Mona’s insight and advice on processing birth and postpartum, trauma even if its years down the road

If you’re working on prioritizing your needs and long for getting support with the mental load of motherhood, this episode is for you!

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Real talk on figuring out when to have kids, infertility and surviving 2 under 2 with my friend, food writer and cooking show host Lindsey McClave. She shares her history of waiting years to decide to have kids only for it to take even longer going through IUIs, miscarriage and IVF, followed by a surprise pregnancy on her daughter's first birthday.

Lindsey is the foodie on the cooking show "The Farmer and the Foodie" and shares the benefits of incorporating local food and how to engage your kids in appreciating where their food comes from even if they are super picky eaters.

We discuss:

• How Lindsey her her husband debated having kids and decided when it was time

• What it was like to go through the unpredictability of unexplained infertility, IVF and miscarriage

• Her surprise pregnancy with her second baby and the feelings of guilt after previously going through infertility

• Lindsey’s tips for managing the mental load of life with 2 under 2 in the early days

• Lindsey and Helene's experiences on the long postpartum journey and wellness routines

• How Lindsey makes cooking into a self-care practice

Coffee date episodes are chats with friends who share their expertise, experiences and perspectives on mental and physical wellness and mom life.

If you crave open, honest conversations around motherhood on the topics we don't always get to talk, you'll love this episode!

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Dr. Trill, the founder of Free to Feed, is the go to resource for infant food reactivity including FPIES, CMPA and food protein allergies while breastfeeding and introducing solids. She breaks down the exact symptoms to look out for if you suspect your baby may be reacting to food proteins including secondary symptoms that are not always talked about such as colic and sleep disturbances. She also explains the science of protein transferability while breastfeeding, which there is a lot of mixed and confusing information about out there.

Dr. Trill explains FPIES, CMPA and the differences between IGE and non-IGE mediated allergies. She also shares why a long term elimination diet is not recommended and which types of allergies are typically grown out of and when. We discuss the mental struggle of going through elimination diets while breastfeeding, as two moms who have been through it, and she gives some specific suggestions for how to manage.

Whether you are suspicious your baby may be experiencing food reactivity, are in the trenches of your elimination diet or just curious about infant food reactivity, breastfeeding and introducing solids, this episode is for you!

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Jaydee shares discovering she was pregnant while actively taking and snorting pills, abusing alcohol and surviving a toxic relationship. The positive pregnancy test was her wake up call that things in her life needed to change and quick. She describes her real and raw experience of being pregnant out of wedlock while estranged from her family and longing for a tribe to support her in the unexpected challenges of pregnancy and postpartum.

Jaydee is a bestselling author and certified social worker who is helping to develop an innovative in home addiction treatment program. She takes us back to witnessing her Father addicted to opioids and trying them out and becoming addicted herself at a young age. Jaydee explains how she took ownership of her blackout days, arrest, rehab and other hardships with self-compassion as part of the healing process.

We discuss how she has brought up tough topics like drugs and alcohol to her 12 year old son and how and when parents should initiate these conversations. Jaydee shares great tips that we can implement at all ages to create a safe space for our kids to bring up uncomfortable topics.

If you are curious about how to heal past traumas, talk to kids about drugs and alcohol or just be inspired by an incredible motherhood journey this episode is for you!

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