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128. Breaking Generational Cycles and Healing from Trauma, Grief, Postpartum Anxiety and Pregnancy Depression to Building a Life (and Business) Fueled by Passion with Christine McAlister

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Release Date: 12/02/2022

140. Mommy’s on a Call is coming back!!! Taking a break, hitting reset, staying curious, rediscovering myself and finding joy.

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week… because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!! 🎧 LISTEN: ⭐️ 👩🏻‍💻 SHOW NOTES: ✨ FOLLOW ON IG: & ☕️ JOIN THE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: - Health & Wellness for Modern Moms 🔥 BOOK AN INTRO SESSION: 🙋🏻‍♀️ WEBSITE:

139. Letting Go of 2023: From “burn it all down” to burnout. How I went from taking a break to burning out and how to recover for 2024

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and discover something new every single week… because I know you've yelled "Mommy's on a Call" at least once in the last week!!! 🎧 LISTEN: ⭐️ 👩🏻‍💻 SHOW NOTES: ☕️ JOIN THE FACEBOOK COMMUNITY: - Health & Wellness for Modern Moms ✨ FOLLOW ON IG: & 🔥 BOOK A RECHARGE MAMA SESSION: 🙋🏻‍♀️ WEBSITE:

138. The Impact of Mom Influencer Culture on Maternal Mental Health, Representation, and Marketing with Sara Petersen, Author of Momfluenced

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Sara Petersen is a mom of 3 and author of the new book, Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture. Sara has written about motherhood and feminism for The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She also writes the newsletter, In Pursuit of Clean Countertops, where she explores the cult of ideal motherhood. Sara lives in New Hampshire with her 3 kids, ages 4, 8 and 10. Follow Sara at... Twitter: IG: Buy Subscribe to "In Pursuit of Clean Countertops" on Substack: ---------- Come join me in my sandbox of life and...

137. Burn It All Down?!? My 2023 Mid-Year Review

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

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136. 6 Steps to Identifying and Eliminating Energy Draining Habits and Activities in Your Busy Life [Mindful Monday]

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Welcome back to a new Mindful Monday series on Mommy's on a Call. It's been a couple months off from podcasting due to an unexpected surgery, illnesses and well, life. I'll go into my health and surgery later on the podcast, but for now, bringing back an episode from Oct 2020 that I thought is so helpful as we move forward to summer and the rest of the year. It's time to revaluate and eliminate those things wasting our time, draining our energy and bringing us down. In order to make space to grow, expand, build and improve, we need to eliminate those energy drains (aka energy vampires)...

135. Understanding Trauma Responses and Toxic Stress to Optimize Health and Reprogram Your Brain and Nervous System with Dr. Amy Hoyt

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Everyone has trauma and toxic stress. You don't need to have gone through some major life altering event to have unresolved trauma (I mean the last 3 years were traumatic enough for most parents!). In this episode, I dive deep with Dr. Amy Hoyt on different types of trauma response and toxic stress, common symptoms of unresolved trauma in high-achieving women, and ways we can tune into our bodies to heal from trauma and stop generational trauma so we can optimize our health and happiness. Dr. Amy Hoyt is the founder of Mending Trauma, a digital mental health company that specializes in trauma...

134. Sleep Training Your Babies, Toddlers and Kids (So You Can Sleep Too) with Brittany Sheehan

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Many of you have followed the last 3+ years of my #OperationRoomShare journey. I’ve had my ups and downs with my kids' sleep which in turn affects us, the parents, getting a good night’s rest. We all know the importance of sleep for adults and your overall health, but sometimes those kids don’t let you get good zzzs. So today I’m bringing on a mom friend and sleep consultant, Brittany Sheehan, to chat all about getting kids to sleep! Brittany Sheehan is a Los Angeles-based sleep consultant and founder of Brittany Sheehan Sleep, a company that offers one-on-one support for families...

133. Improving Gut Health and Your Microbiome with Ara Katz, Co-Founder of Seed [REPLAY]

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

On today's episode, I'm bringing back an interview with Ara Katz, the founder of Seed. I loved this episode because she speaks to the importance of the microbiome, why we need to take probiotics (and prebiotics) as kids and adults, and how gut health is central to our immune system and health. Ara Katz is a mother, entrepreneur, author and wellness expert. She is the co-founder of microbial sciences company Seed Health and consumer innovations brand, Seed. Ara's first pregnancy and breastfeeding experience led her to the microbiome and inspired her personal mission to explore the importance...

132. How to Improve Your Hormone Health in Your 30s, 40s and Postpartum with Dr. Aviva Romm [REPLAY]

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Happy March! I'm currently still recovering from laryngitis and so I thought I'd bring back some of my favorite episodes dealing with women's health. First up... Dr. Aviva Romm is a world renowned midwife, herbalist, Yale-trained MD and board certified family physician with specialties in integrative, gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book "Hormone Intelligence" and is the mom of four and a grandma of two. Other top episodes on hormone health: ----- Come join me in my sandbox of life and in this podcast to explore, play and...

131. Living with ADHD & Hashimoto's and Helping Women Uncover Real Healing & Growth with Kaitlin Soule, LMFT

Mommy's on a Call | Wellness & Mindfulness for Modern Moms, Mindful Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Kaitlin Soule is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of A Little Less of a Hot Mess: The Modern Mom's Guide to Growth and Evolution. She specializes in women's mental health, anxiety, and modern parenting, empowering modern women to take agency over their life and say yes to themselves. She is also an “imperfect mom” to three, ages 4, 7 and 8. In this episode, Kaitlin and I chat about: How she handled the big feelings of her youngest child How she had the capacity to manage home life, a career, ADHD and Hashimoto’s alongside her 3 little kids and her husband’s...

**Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about her experience with the loss of a child, stillbirth, and miscarriages.**

Christine McAlister is passionate about helping impact-driven entrepreneurs attract their next clients by being value-driven podcast guests. She and her clients have generated over $1 million as podcast guests, and she’s has been recognized as the best in the world at podcast guesting by 7-figure founders.

A media expert for 2 decades, she's helped broadcast the Olympic Games, produced an award-winning documentary for PBS, and has been featured in Inc., Business Insider, Bustle, The Huffington Post and on over 100 podcasts, in addition to hosting her top-rated show No One’s Ever Asked Me That.

Christine is also a mom of 3 – 2 earth side babies and 1 in heaven.

In this episode, Christine and I chatted about…

The evolution of her belief system and spirituality from being raised in a super Christian family to becoming a generation breaker and questioning the norms of what a female’s role in her family looks like
What drove her out of the hole and emerge and get out of bed after her stillbirth
Dealing with postpartum anxiety, pregnancy depression and grief
How to be an advocate for your own health
How to build your support system and cultivate relationships with other moms
The idea of “remembering” and clearing generational trauma and limiting beliefs
How she uses of somatic body based work to heal
Using breathwork and meditation with her kids
How she’s structuring her business to exist around her kids school hours

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