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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 you Already Have Too Much to do. This is a book that every mother needs, in my humble opinion. Dr. Morgan Cutlip, PhD in Psychology and highly sought after relationship expert, knows what it feels like to lose yourself in motherhood, and she’s determined to help mothers navigate it better.Throughout her career, she has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide learn how to form and maintain healthy relationships.Dr. Morgan has been a featured relationship expert with Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Health Magazine, MOPS International, Loveology, and Flo, the #1 app in health and fitness. Today on the show, we talk about very practical things you can do to find your way back to yourself in motherhood. Spoiler alert: it's not a quick fix (and anything that promises to be is probably too good to be true). It's a process. But a noble one at that. Enjoy, mama! Warmly, Lauren xoxo Follow the Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themomfeedpodcast/ Follow Dr. Morgan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmorgancutlip/ Dr. Morgan's website: https://drmorgancutlip.com/ Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 compiled their stories and realized that since they had left her forever changed, they would probably do the same for others. Her social media account grew quickly as people became more and more interested about her work as a hospice nurse, and the stories of the people she has had the honor of serving in their final days, weeks and months of life. I had the honor of interviewing Hadley about her wonderful book. Today on the show, we discuss: 1. Themes and advice that dying people wish they could have given to themselves earlier. 2. faith and its role in death. 3. How to talk to our kids about death. And much more. Settle in for an episode that just might change the way you live with lesson from those who have already passed on. Much love, Lauren xxx Affiliate Links Mentioned: Caraway Cookware: Get 10% off through September 12, 2023 with this link. Jolie Shower Filter: Use code THEMOMFEEDPODCAST for free shipping FilterBaby Sink Filter: Use code THEMOMFEED15 for 15% off! Ursa Major Clean Skincare: Get $20 off your order of $70 or more Organifi: Use code THEMOMFEED for 20% off! Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 about Frownies. As you'll hear on the show today, Helen Morrison's great grandmother invented Frownies in 1889 when she noticed that her furrowed brow was created what's become known as "11" lines in between her eyes. Since then, Frownies have floated around as a natural beauty secret among celebrities, but they became an internet sensation just a few years ago. Learn about how they work, how they compare to Botox and surgery, and get some of Helen's other secrets and suggestions on how to aging gracefully beyond skincare products like Frownies. Enjoy! Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 listen to more than once, and preferably with a pen and paper. Listen to it alone, listen to it with your partner, and then do it all over again. And share it with your fellow friends in relationships. Because we could all use some help, especially if we've got kids in the mix. You will learn not just a lot about your relationship in this episode, but also about yourself. Be prepared to go deep and to get answers about your relationship so you and your partner can thrive together. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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, Susanne has coached thousands of leaders at hundreds of companies, including TOMS, Kit + Ace, Earls Kitchen + Bar and imagine1day. If you've been feeling stuck in your life - particularly in motherhood - you're going to get a lot out of today's episode! On the show today, we talk about being the author of your own story, especially the one you're currently starring in as "mother." Susanne gives some valuable insight and exercises for you to begin stepping into the vision of what you want your life to look like, including how to deepen your presence and joy within your motherhood experience. It's time :) Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 the kids that will indeed move the world forward, but goodness gracious, they can be challenging to parenting and to hold space for. Thank goodness for my guest on the show today, Mary Van Geffen, a parenting coach to spicy ones. She helps parents through setting and holding healthy boundaries (or not, depending on the situation), so that parent and child together can thrive in a loving, respectful and I dare say even joyful relationship. Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach and parent educator for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & Spicy Children™. She teaches monthly workshops to help moms gain confidence to choose gentle, respectful parenting especially if they weren’t raised that way. Mary has a ministry on Instagram where she posts an inspiring parenting tip every single day. Just reading her social media will help you delight in your child and remember that you are enough. Mary believes that when a mom realizes how hard she is on herself and cracks the door open for some self-compassion, her entire family is bathed in light! Mary is a certified Simplicity Parenting Counselor® and Professional Co-Active Coach®. Her greatest achievement, however, is cultivating a calm, kind, and firm relationship with her spirited go-getter daughter (17), polar-opposite introverted son (15) and un-Enneagramable hubby. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 challenging moments in our lives. But how we face those challenges counts for everything. And if you’re equipped with the knowledge of where you shine and how you can best support yourself in times of trouble, then it’s safe to say that those challenging times won’t feel so challenging. We get into that today. We also discuss the incredibly astrological event taking place today, Thursday March 23rd, 2023: The shift of Pluto into Aquarius. As you’ll learn, Pluto is about death and rebirth, and it has been in Capricorn (ruler of systems and structure) since 2008. This has looked like the crumbling of systems (think banks, government structure, educational systems – you know, that kind of thing. No big deal 🤪). With Pluto moving into Aquarius for a few months (it shifts back into Capricorn again on June 11th but then goes right back into Aquarius at the beginning of 2024), that means it’s time for innovation (Aquarius is the innovator). We discuss that and more on today’s episode. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 freezing 5. You are interested in egg donation 6. You are interested in any aspect of fertility and infertility 7. You are a mom looking for advice on starting a business even while having young children at home To learn more about Cofertility, visit https://www.cofertility.com/ Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 you move into a new phase: why is the baby spitting up? How do I get my baby to sleep? What kind of nap schedule does my baby need to be on? When do I start solids? What do I start with? How much should they be eating? When should they be crawling? When should they start walking? Then you move into toddlerhood and find yourself furiously consulting with parenting books and blogs and podcasts about toddler behavior and how to manage it, and developmental stages, and how to navigate them. Well, first comes marriage (or the relationship or the donor), then comes the baby, then comes: how the heck do I talk to my child about puberty. Ok, maybe not in that order, but the point is: we move from being positively consumed by all the things in pregnancy and infancy and toddlerhood and then BAM! Your child is asking you about boobs and why you’re bleeding from your butt (because they’re in the bathroom with you 24/7, even when you have your period, and they have questions). They may even begin touching themselves and you find yourself flustered trying to find the words to explain to them that we do not touch ourselves in public. And then - oh GOD - how do we talk to our kids about pleasure? And when do we do that? And oh my goodness - when do their boobs come in? And when does their period start? And how on earth do I talk to them about this? If you feel flustered around talking to your children about puberty, today’s episode is going to be one that you must save and come back to over and over and over again. Talking to our kids about puberty isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. And since we want to empower our children around their bodies - not just because of all the body image stuff they are going to be exposed to, but also for very practical reasons like bodily autonomy and sexual abuse prevention - we need to get comfortable talking about puberty with them. Ok, maybe it won’t be comfortable, but we need to learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable as we learn to talk to our kids about their bodies. Today, I’m joined by board certified pediatrician and chief medical officer and co-founder of Girology, Dr. Trish Hutchison. Girlology is a digital health platform with our 500 educational videos for parents and their daughters about every topic under the sun when it comes to puberty. Dr. Trish co-founded Girology with her colleague, Dr. Melissa Holmes. Dr. Holmes is a board certified gynecologist with a specialty in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. In short, you couldn’t have two more qualified people running a digital health platform about puberty. If you have sons, there is Guyology. So fear not - today you will unlock everything you need to know about talking to your kids abou Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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. And when I really thought about it, the truth is that I decided to have kids because that’s what was modeled for me. That’s the story that was told to me: you do well in school, you get into a good college, you get a good job, you find a solid partner, you get married and you have kids and you live happily ever after. I never questioned it. I just assumed it was supposed to be my story. I think that’s part of the reason motherhood was so jarring to me. I was expecting to feel filled with joy. I was expecting my child to do the things the textbook told me she’d do. I was expecting to walk out of the hospital in my skinny jeans because my body was supposed to just bounce right back to the way it was before it grew a human (ha). I was expecting my relationship to stay solid. None of that was my reality. I wasn’t prepared for the feelings of resentment, a sense of longing for my old life, a sense of grief for my old self, a sense of shame and guilt for having those feelings of resentment and longing. I wasn’t prepared for the loneliness, for the helpless feeling of a total lack of control as I tried to be an expert at this role as a mother on the very first day on the job and failed. And continued to fail as my daughter went through every stage of her first year of life. Motherhood threw me for a loop literally at every turn, and I wasn’t prepared for it. Today on the show, life coach Dr. Gertrude Lyons and I discuss this story of motherhood, this mother code that was passed down to us both from our own mothers or primary caregivers, as well as from our environment and societal and cultural messaging. She has dedicated her life to helping mothers redefine and rewrite their own mother code such that it fits their beliefs, not the ones that they borrowed from anyone else. We talk about: ✅ Mom Guilt ✅ Mom Shame ✅ Losing your sense of identity in motherhood (and how to get it back) ✅ Reparenting yourself ✅ How motherhood triggers traumas and wounds that need to be healed And much more. Tune in and be prepared to write the story of motherhood the way you want it to be. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 aha moment: Why don't we have meal delivery services for kids? She got to researching and couldn't find any suitable options. She wondered why: Was it too hard a market to get into? Or was it simply an untapped market that she needed to innovate? She went with the latter, and a year after selling Coolhaus, Lunch Bunch began serving its first round of meals. Today on the show, Natasha discusses how Coolhaus and parenting gave way to the birth of Lunch Bunch. Get ready to learn about entrepreneurship while also learning about how to invoke your children's curiosity and unlock the way to get them to eat truly nourishing food. If you live in the LA area, use code LBMomFeed for 50% off your first week of lunches! Visit https://lunch-bunch.com/ to order yours. And bonus: The Mom Feed has partnered with Lunch Bunch to create two of their meals for the week: the Rainbow Roll and the Zoodles with Cauli-Fredo Sauce. Order yours today! Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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, that’s what we’re doing today. Because Erin is back and she’s talking all about intermittent fasting. What she has to say will surely surprise you, particularly if you’ve got female physiology and you’re in your reproductive years. We cannot talk about intermittent fasting without talking about blood sugar, which do today as well. And before you go thinking, “I don’t have diabetes or insulin resistance, so why should I care about blood sugar?” let me tell you: it’s in one of - if not the key to maintaining your health and a healthy weight. Get prepared for a fast but furious lesson in nutrition that could very well liberate you and catapult you into crushing whatever health goal you’ve got for 2023. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 inevitably do not get along. This can make for a very stressful situation for you as a parent. Of course we want our children to get along, but it would help to understand what's going on inside their heads so we could understand how to more easily help them get there. Today I'm talking to parenting coach and mother of two, Danielle Bettmann. We're talking all about how to help siblings get along! Today she explains just what our kids are feeling about each other, and she gives practical, easy to implement tools to help foster not just the relationship they have with their sibling(s), but also - and more importantly - the one that they have with themselves. We talk about the nuts and bolts of the sibling relationship and then we get into specific scenarios like what to do when your children are vying for your attention at the same time, what to do about hitting and kicking and other dangerous physical behavior, how to handle it when your child says really hurtful things about the other child, validating your child’s feelings even when you don’t like how they are expressing them, and so much more! This is definitely going to be an episode you’ll want to take notes on, save, and also, listen to with your partner. It’s soooo important to be on the same parenting page as your partner. It can save a lot of headaches and frankly, cause much less confusion for your children. So let's go! Follow Danielle on Instagram @parent_wholeheartedly Check out her website https://www.parentingwholeheartedly.com/ Follow us on Instagram @TheMomFeedPodcast for a daily dose of real motherhood and resources to help you thrive - and not just survive - this gig! Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 as she delivered each word). On the show today, you can hear the full story about what happened. I was so shaken up by the event that I reached out to my friend, Dr. Sarah Bren, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in parenting. Through many voice messages back and forth over Instagram, she was able to help me calm down and to see that what happened between my daughter and her playmate was actually very developmentally appropriate (huh?). She talked me through it and did such a great job that I knew I needed to have her on the show to talk about it. Because as parents, we need to know how to talk to our kids about bodily autonomy, consent (wait until you hear what Sarah has to say about that!), body parts and all the things so that by the time we get to that quintessential birds and bees conversation, well, it will basically already have happened. And it won't be awkward. And our children will feel empowered around and informed about their bodies. That may sound idyllic, but after today's show, I think you'll see that that future is very possible. And I would argue, it is our responsibility to make sure that future comes to fruition (sorry, just add it to the ever growing list of your already too-many child rearing responsibilities). So get ready to get comfortable with the uncomfortable, and set your children up for success around bodily autonomy! For more on Dr. Bren, visit https://drsarahbren.com Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 create it. She did just that, and she went on to have 2 children in her late 30s. Danica's approach to fertility combines a unique combination of fertile foods and thoughts, and a deeper understanding of the 4 phases of a woman's cycle. Her program, The Seed Fertility Program, has been touted as life changing by Erin Foster of The World's First Podcast, and has been featured in Goop. Tune in to hear how you can improve your fertility with Danica's unique program. You'll also learn more about endometriosis, PCOS, and what prematurely ages our ovaries (and what you can do about slowing that down). Follow Danica on Instagram @DrDanicaThornberry Learn more and/or book an appointment with Danica at https://www.danicathornberry.com/ Use code MOMFEED25 for 25% off any course at https://www.seedfertility.com/ Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 children, particularly their developmental milestones. I’m talking about things like rolling over, crawling, walking and other gross motor skills your pediatrician asks you about at every check up. Today, Dr. Brita DeStefano helps take the guesswork out of those developmental skills. Dr. DeStefano is board certified as a pediatric specialist and focuses her work primarily on babies between 0 and 2 years old where much of these developmental motor skills occur. We talk about lip ties and tongue ties as well, sleep positions, flat heads and helmets, and so much more. Get ready to feel empowered and to truly understand what’s going on for your child in those very formative years so that you can work together to make this time enjoyable. Because it can be. For more information about Dr. DeStefano and her work, visit https://www.ptpdenver.com/ Follower Dr. DeStefano on Instagram For full show notes, visit https://themomfeed.com/dr-brita-destefano-2/ Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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, Erin is constantly keeping up with the latest research and seeing how it plays out in the lives of the women she coaches. Today on the show, we talk about where to begin when it comes to balancing hormones and what she has to say may surprise you. We also get into intermittent fasting and why it may not be the best option for women who are still menstruating. We'll cover those details in this episode. If you're looking to solve some health mysteries or just to feel better in your body - more energized, optimistic, a free of any pesky health challenges - you're going to love today's episode. Be sure to check out Erin's podcast, The Funktional Nutritionist, and in particular, her episode about Intermittent Fasting where she takes a deep dive into the subject. Also be sure to get your name on the waiting list for her upcoming course, Your Hormone Revival, a 3 month balancing program to revive adrenal, thyroid and hormone health through root cause restoration. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 called the infradian rhythm, and instead of being ruled by the 24 hour clock like the circadian rhythm is, it’s actually ruled by the 4 phases of a woman’s cycle: follicular, ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual. In today’s episode, Registered Nurse and cycle synching coach, Megan Rempel, talks about how synching with your infradian rhythm can quite literally unlock your nutrition, balance your hormones, increase your energy, and even help your mental health. Tune in and prepare to unlock your greatest success in nutrition, fitness and life! For full show notes and a list of the resources mentioned on today's episode, visit themomfeed.com Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 the family of your dreams before it ever becomes a reality? The women behind the prenatal vitamin company, WeNatal, believe in mindset so wholeheartedly, that after creating the world's first prenatal vitamin company for both men and women, they adopted one final holistic tool: a journal to manifest the family of your dreams. You've heard this before: thoughts become things. And how powerful that concept is when trying to conceive. Today on the show, I'm joined by Lillian Cohanzad, the author of the premier journal for pregnancy "“WeNatal, A Guided Journal Manifesting Your Dream Family,” and passionate supporter of women through spiritual facilitation including manifestation sessions, moon circles and breath work. Today we discuss some of what you'll find in the journal, like 50 questions to ask before becoming a parent, and 50 affirmations you can use in your conception journey. We discuss the power of manifestation, particularly when it comes to manifesting your family, and how you can use this journal in every aspect of your life. Tune in and prepare to welcome in the changes your heart has been longing for. For more about WeNatal, visit Prenatal Vitamins for Him + Her | WeNatal Make sure to follow us on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo

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 selfish, right? Is it, though? On the show today, you're going to be convinced that making joy and your own needs a priority is actually the best thing you can do not just for yourself, but also for your relationships, your kids, your work, and everywhere in your life. Courtney Fae Long is an International Speaker, Best selling author, coach, and creator of Mariposa Sacred Sexuality, and today she's going to help us unlock the joy inside us all. She's going to show you just why it's so important, and by the end of the hour, you just might find yourself scheduling joy into your days. In fact, that is my wish for you. Be prepared to be inspired, and to find your way back to yourself, mama. For full show notes, visit www.themomfeed.com Be sure to follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast for a daily dose of real motherhood, where honesty and humor collide. And if you want to sign up for 30 days of FREE pilates with my gal Tandy Gutierrez, sign up here. Follow along on Instagram @themomfeedpodcast Sign up for our newsletter for weekly inspiration and advice on motherhood and beyond. Remember to subscribe to the show if you don't already! xoxo