Medicine, Motherhood, and Magic
If you’ve ever thought, “I should be able to handle this,” this episode is for you. Dr. Lauren Trimeloni unpacks why being capable doesn’t mean being limitless, how overcommitment steals joy, and how narrowing your focus can actually create more space for what you love.
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“Busy” has become our default identity—but at what cost? In this episode of Medicine, Motherhood & Magic, Lauren explores why busyness is so deeply tied to worth, especially for physician moms, and how chronic overdoing quietly erodes our health, relationships, and sense of presence. She unpacks the cultural conditioning behind hustle, perfectionism, and people-pleasing, and why slowing down can feel terrifying—but necessary. This conversation is an invitation to question the busy badge, strengthen boundaries, clarify priorities, and reimagine rest as a radical act of self-trust....
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Stop the panic-clean-crash cycle. Dr. Lauren Trimeloni reveals why your big dramatic efforts never stick and how tiny daily actions—fueled by the right emotions—create lasting change. Learn why the energy behind your actions matters more than the actions themselves, and discover how to build the life you want without burnout.
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In this episode, Lauren unpacks how your internal emotional state quietly shapes the choices you make every day. From stress and avoidance to motivation and momentum, she explores why awareness of your feelings is the first step to changing your behavior and creating different outcomes. A practical, honest conversation about noticing what’s underneath before trying to “fix” what’s on the surface.
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In this episode, Lauren breaks down how your thoughts directly shape your feelings — and why learning to notice and shift them can change how you experience stress, self-trust, and everyday life. A practical, compassionate conversation about emotional awareness, personal responsibility, and creating more ease from the inside out.
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What if you didn’t have to choose between who you are and who you’re becoming? In this episode, Lauren explores the quiet tension of feeling pulled between responsibility and intuition, logic and inner knowing. She shares how honoring both parts of yourself — the capable one and the curious one — can lead to clarity, not confusion. A grounded conversation about sensitivity, self-trust, and allowing your path to expand without abandoning what you’ve already built.
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In this episode of Medicine, Motherhood & Magic, Dr. Lauren Trimeloni explores the quiet, complicated, and deeply human reasons women become mothers—and the many paths that lead us there. From pregnancy and adoption to foster care, step-parenthood, and unexpected beginnings, motherhood is not a single moment or definition. It’s an identity that forms and reforms over time. Lauren reflects on the transformation that happens when a woman becomes a mother—not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. She challenges the inherited narrative that motherhood must equal exhaustion,...
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Why did you choose medicine in the first place? In this episode of Medicine, Motherhood & Magic, we slow down long enough to remember. Through personal stories rooted in family medicine, emergency care, and neonatal ICU work, we reflect on the moments that first pulled us toward this profession—and how easily that sense of calling can get buried under charting, coding, committees, and the constant mental load of modern medicine. This episode is a reminder that what you do every day is not ordinary. You bring life into the world. You sit with grief, trauma, addiction, anxiety, and hope....
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In this first episode, Dr. Lauren Trimeloni opens up about the one thing that held this podcast hostage for 14 months: perfectionism. From rerecording intros, doubting her voice, and juggling life on the mother–baby unit, she explores why physician moms carry impossible standards—and why “good enough” has never felt good enough. If you’ve ever achieved everything you set out to do and still felt like you were falling short, this conversation will feel like coming home.
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Medicine, Motherhood & Magic is the podcast for women who are done feeling like they’re failing at everything. Hosted by Dr. Lauren Trimeloni: family physician, mom of six, and recovering perfectionist. This show helps you ditch burnout, rewrite the stories stealing your energy, and learn what it really takes to thrive as a woman in medicine and motherhood. If you’ve ever felt torn between patients and parenting, purpose and exhaustion, or ambition and guilt, you’re not alone…and you’re in the right place. Here, you’ll learn what it really takes to thrive in medicine and...
info_outlineIn this episode, Lauren breaks down how your thoughts directly shape your feelings — and why learning to notice and shift them can change how you experience stress, self-trust, and everyday life. A practical, compassionate conversation about emotional awareness, personal responsibility, and creating more ease from the inside out.