Mommy Moments Ep. 13
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Announcement for Birthing Ourselves, Childbirth Preparation Groups on Zoom. We are born as parents in this time and the group includes broad ideas of transformation in addition to more standard need to know and do subjects. Give a listen and see if it is for you or a loved one. Then check it out after April 16, 2020 at
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Mommy Moments Ep. 12
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How many of you feel like your productivity is too low as a mom? Where is that pressure coming from? How do you deal with it, work with it, or overcome it? Here is my experience.
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Mommy Hero: Mary Alexandra Zuleta Ep. 11
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Tierra discusses healthcare and healing through the lens of femininity and all the qualities that can entail. She also shares many stories growing up and what qualities and values she wants to share with her daughter and all women.
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Mommy Hero: Nicole Tiffany Cruz Ep. 10
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We talk with "The Super Busy Mommy Coach" on how she stays present, focused, and motivated running her business and raising her 4-year-old. She has some gems on how she creates, takes care of herself, and prioritizes parenting through it all.
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Mommy Moments Ep. 09
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Tierra Owen discusses a real experience of domestic abuse in her life that set the stage for new beauty and growth to come. Yoda's saying comes to mind: "Do or do not. There is no Try."
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Mommy Moments Ep. 08
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This is the first of several shorter summer episodes of me riffing on some Mommy Stories. In this episode, I share the story of my new book, 52 Ways to Love Yourself Postpartum, and how it came to be. This was just a quick idea that I had that a few people encourage me along and I learned the value of having great people around that lift you up and ultimately the whole community is lifted with you.
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Mommy Hero: Kerena Saltzman Ep.07
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Kerena weaves us through a journey of creating a delicious life where we live from our values and have a little time for self-reflection in order to draw back and envision what we want as mother's, women, and wives. She also stresses the importance of the "circle of support:" people who are safe and encourage our confidence and growth.
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Mommy Hero: Paddy Easton Graves Ep. 06
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Listen in as Paddy discusses the emerging new paradigm for moms to be the bridge for our children to live in more light as we leave the darkness behind
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Mommy Hero: Ellie Hamner Ep. 05
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Ellie Hamner shares her secrets on creating an authentic life through vulnerability. She is a master memory maker and prides herself on a domesticity that is intentional and delicious...especially through her food preparation and meal presentation. She loves connecting with her children regularly and allowing them the freedom to be who they are.
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Mommy Hero: Gina Scott Ep. 04
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Nurse and post-Crossfit athlete, Gina Scott, shares her mommy story that is full of surprises, laughter, tears, and sweetness. Her experience at the bedside is informed by her life and, as she works to advance her nursing degree, she shows us all how to build the habits that keep us strong.
info_outlineIn this episode, April Stearns, editor in chief and creator of Wildfire Magazine, shares:
- The importance of writing as therapy, process, and product.
- How she went from blogging to online magazine to print magazine and her enjoyment of consuming content offline
- Her current issue “Parenting.”
- How breast cancer affected her own parenting, the vulnerability and the growth
- How breastfeeding helped her get diagnosed
- How to talk to kids about cancer in age-specific ways
- Allowing kids to have there own experience and emotions around cancer
- How cancer helped her child have more compassion toward everyone
- How to be creative on the clock
- Importance of built-in break time
- Use of time-blocking in work: limiting the time allowed on a project that can absorb a lot of energy
- Why free space in the woods is a great place to allow thoughts to come
- Why enjoying the age and stage of kids where they are is so important
- Growing up with a mother with mental illness
- How her husband gives her room to be so much more than the primary role of wife/mother
- How the breast cancer community has “mothered” her
- Intermittent fasting and “non-scale” victories of weight loss
- Use of meal prep services to open up more personal, creative, and family time
Resources:
The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung
Where to find April: