The Motherhood Mentor

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Boundaries with toddlers: gentle parenting, codependency, and parenting strategies for real life

2026-08-2534:19

Your toddler isn’t “being bad” and you aren’t failing because you need space. The toddler years are a real biological and relational shift: after a season of constant baby attunement, your child starts practicing autonomy and your nervous system starts asking, “What about me?” That’s where resentment, overwhelm, and those out-of-nowhere anger spikes can sneak in, especially for sensitive, big-hearted moms who default to fawning or people pleasing. We talk through what it actually means...

What If Shame Is Not An Emotion? Breaking Mom Guilt and Shame with David Bedrick

2026-08-1701:02:11

This episode is a re-air as it was a favorite! Join me in this episode around shame as I sit down with David Bedrick to reframe shame as an internalized witness that dismisses our lived experience, then trace how that shows up as mom guilt, perfectionism, and self-fixing. We practice unshaming the energies underneath yelling, tiredness, and boundary-setting so the parent-child relationship stays real instead of performative. • shame as an internalized witness that denies and gasl...

Somatic Meditation and Practice to Come Back to Center and Self

2026-07-0227:35

What if the answer isn't thinking harder? So many women are trying to think their way through emotions, anxiety, overwhelm, conflict, and stress. But what if your body already knows something your mind can't access? In this guided somatic episode, I walk you through a simple body scanning practice designed to help you reconnect with yourself, regulate your nervous system, and come back to the present moment. Whether you're feeling overstimulated by motherhood, stuck in a spiral of overthinkin...

When Your Child's Emotions Become Your Emergency: People Pleasing as a Mother with Luis Mojica

2026-06-2356:52

What if your people-pleasing isn't actually a personality trait? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with somatic therapist and educator Luis Mojica to explore the nervous system roots of fawning, people-pleasing, and codependency in motherhood. We unpack why so many mothers lose connection with themselves after having children, how our kids' emotions can become our emergency, and why self-attunement isn't selfish—it's one of the greatest gifts we can give our families. Inside this epis...

Guided Meditation for Boundaries : Healthy Separation and Feeling Self

2026-06-0921:38

Today's episode is a guided somatic meditation for feeling into and cleaning up boundaries. Please do not listen while driving and be sure you are in a space where it would be safe to be in a meditative state. Your energy can feel “leaky” long before your mind finds the words for it. We’re slowing everything down with a guided grounding meditation designed to help you notice what’s happening in your body, name it clearly, and reconnect with what is yours. We start with simple orientati...

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