Mom guilt. Mom rage. Mom brain. So many terms in motherhood, most of which we didn't really understand until we were in it. As mothers in this age, it can be really difficult to love your kids without losing yourself (and your mind!) in the process. My guest on the show today has made it her life's work to help mothers banish guilt and beat burnout in motherhood. She just released her first book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When...
Have you ever picked up a book that you just couldn't put down? You are exhausted and you want to go to bed, but you simply cannot stop turning the pages. And when you turn that final page, you're so sad, because it's over. But you're changed for having read it. That is The In Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments. It's a book written by hospice nurse, Hadley Vlahos, RN. Over her years helping patients transition from this life to whatever comes next, Hadley compil...
Are you concerned with fine lines and wrinkles? Are you into clean beauty, aging gracefully, and finding a natural way to minimize those years of expression lines on your face? If you're into quick fixes, there is surgery and Botox. But if you're into something different - a beauty secret that's been around since 1889 but that was made famous by Renee Rousso when she touted this product to be her secret to aging gracefully in Good Housekeeping magazine - then you're going to want to know a...
At what point in your relationship is it time to see a therapist? Is love enough to keep a relationship going? Will having kids negatively impact my relationship? Stacey Sherrell and Rachel Facio are two licensed marriage and family therapists who have made waves with their down-to-earth, practical relationship advice on their popular platform, Decoding Couples, and they've joined us on The Mom Feed Podcast today to share some advice! This episode is one of those ones you'll want to liste...
When was the last time you thought about your goals? When was the last time you wrote them down? When I began working for lululemon in 2006, I was introduced to the world of goal setting, and as an overachiever, I was hooked on the process. A few months into my time there, I met a woman named Susanne Conrad, a woman who would change my life. Susanne was the Director of Possibility at lululemon, and she co-developed lululemon's renowned leadership program there. Since then, Sus...
If you're a parent to a child or children between the ages of 2 and 12 years old, you're going to get a lot out of today, especially if you have children that are particularly spicy, shall we say? You know the ones. They seem to defy what the parenting books say. They push your buttons. They push boundaries at earlier ages then seems appropriate. They hold a mirror to your wounds and traumas - most of them unhealed - and ask you dig deeper and deeper for the healing and the lesson. They are...
If you’ve ever wondered what is at the intersectin of astrology, human design, and your life, wonder no more. Today on the show, intuitive astrologer, mama and entrepreneur, Jessie Eccles, gives us a rundown on how you can use human design and astrology to better understand yourself and those around you. She empowers you to understand just how your birth chart reveals who you are, and how you can use your strengths and challenges to uplevel your life. Let’s face it – we’ll all have challengi...
Are you a parent or thinking about becoming one? My guest on the show today, Lauren Makler, is the CEO and co-founder of Cofertility, a mother owned and led company that is reshaping egg donation and egg freezing. Today's episode is for you if: 1. You are in your 20s or early 30s and thinking about having a family someday 2. You are experiencing fertility challenges 3. You are experiencing secondary infertility after having had at least one child already 4. You are interested in egg freezi...
I don’t know about you, but motherhood goes in phases of panic and preparation. One phase informs the specifics around the panic and the preparation. For example, you get pregnant. Then, the research begins. What prenatal vitamins should I take? What kind of birth do I want? What kind of care provider do I want? What should I put on my baby registry? All the questions, all the preparation around the nursery and the buying of the parenting books and all the things. Then the baby comes, and...
How has motherhood felt to you? Has it felt easy? Hard? A mixed bag? I’ve been pretty open and honest about how much motherhood has thrown me for a loop. It came with some pretty dark moments, and though those dark moments are fewer and farther between, they are still there sometimes. Someone once asked me, “Why did you decide to have kids?” The question jarred me. Because the honest answer was: I didn’t know the answer. I was embarrassed and quite shocked that I didn’t know that answer...
When co-founder Natasha Case of the wildly popular ice cream company, Coolhaus, found herself challenged by feeding her little ones, she took action. She realized that as both she and her wife, Freya, were busy working professionals and entrepreneurs, they were solving their nutritional needs by ordering pre-made meals for themselves through a meal delivery service. Standing over yet another uneaten lunch that her son had brought back home from school and feeling frustrated, Natasha had an ...
I simply cannot believe that we’ve already come to the end of another year, but alas, here we are. And I think so many of us have some kind of health goal we’d like to carry out once the new year begins. One of the things that seems to be super popular is intermittent fasting. I invited Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Erin Holt, on the show a few months ago to talk about nutrition for women in general, and we touched on intermittent fasting but we didn’t have time to dive deeper. Well, th...
Do you have siblings? If so, do you get along? Do you ever remember a time where you did? What was your relationship like as children? Sibling relationships can be tricky. As it says in the book - Siblings Without Rivalry - when another child comes along, it can feel like a roommate the first child never asked for and never wanted. While some children may gravitate toward their new sibling, others may not. And no matter how the relationship starts out, there will be times when siblings inevi...
Talking about the birds and the bees has been depicted in so many ways throughout our lives. It's a conversation I naively thought didn't really have to happen until my kids were at least 15 or 16 years old. That's why I was so surprised when my 6 year old daughter came to me at the end of a play date last month to tell me that her 6 year old male playmate had asked to touch her private parts (cue the panic, red flushed face, shaking with adrenaline Hulk-like creature I felt myself becoming ...
When Danica Thornberry, DAOM, found herself staring at her lab work at 31 years of age - lab work that confirmed she was headed into early menopause due to prematurely aging ovaries - she couldn't believe it. She had spent the previous decade helping her patients in her practice in LA to overcome fertility challenges. How could this be? At the time of her diagnosis, Danica was not in a place to begin trying for a family. She thought she had time, and she was determined to figure out how to ...
We’ve all been there. You’re at the park or on a playdate with your mom friends and their babes who are about the same age. You’re trying not to - you really are - but you can’t help but notice that your friend’s baby is crawling or walking or doing something that your child is not yet doing. And they are the same age. You try not to panic. But the truth is, we’ve never done this before. We don’t know what is considered “normal” and what isn’t when it comes to so many things about our child...
If you're a mama who is suffering from hormonal imbalances of any kind (night sweats and hot flashes, migraines, bloating, cramps, PMS, etc), autoimmune conditions, brain fog, a lack of energy - basically if you aren't feeling well, my guest today can probably help you figure out why. Erin Holt AKA The Funktional Nutritionist is a board certified integrative and functional nutritionist who is on a mission to help women feel better in their bodies. With 15 years of experience as a clinician, ...
On a scale of one to ten, where is your energy at right now? Do you feel positively jazzed up and ready to take on the world? Or do you just want to take a nap? Do you wake up in the morning feeling rested or like you haven’t slept? Do you have symptoms of PMS when you’re in your menstrual cycle? Did you know that you don’t have to feel any of those things? Where men and women share a biological rhythm known as the circadian rhythm, women have a second one that is unique to them. It’s c...
Have you ever noticed the power of your thoughts? Maybe you've had the experience where you were thinking about someone and they called, or you ended up seeing them at the store. Or maybe you decided that you wanted to go to college and after much hard work, you got in and did it. That is manifestation. We all do it, all the time. We manifest good things. We manifest not so good things. Did you ever realize you could apply the power of manifestation to your journey into parenthood, imagining ...
Do you feel like joy is on a never ending refill in your life? Do you seek pleasure with a sense of urgency and almost always put yourself and your own needs before anyone else's? If you're a woman or a mama, my guess if that you're probably laughing as you read this. Because how many of us were taught to do that? Most of us were sold the model of martyrdom in motherhood: put yourself last. There isn't enough time or money (both or one or the other) to put yourself first, and besides, it's se...