Bio: Brittany Joy is a mother of 2 toddlers, a writer, a serial coffee drinker, and a passionate self- acceptance advocate. She lives in a small rural town with her outdoorsy husband and their kids. She has been blogging at Bodacious Brittany for two years on topics including self-acceptance, recovering from diet culture, marriage, and motherhood. She is many things, but most importantly she is herself - and is passionate about helping women be bodaciously themselves too.

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• Brittany is a unique combination of Earth momma while boldly speaking her truth.
• Motherhood is a very tribal thing — we emulate other women so it often can lead to doing things how everyone else does them.
• Why she doesn’t believe you need to put yourself in the box as a "stay at home mom" or a "working mom" (father’s don’t identify with this) and why she prefers the term, "primary caregiver."
• Her traditional roots and not so traditional roots as she grew up in foster care with a dad in prison. 
• Her painful early childhood trauma and why doesn't have a lot of memories before the age of 8. 
• Attachment style and how this looked for her. 
• Her book recommendations by Dr. Daniel Siegel: The Whole-Brain Child, No Drama Discipline, Parenting From the Inside Out
• “You will unconsciously press your own childhood trauma onto your children if you don’t work through your own pain.”
• Why she had a very anxious attachment to her mother and then to her husband and how she healed it.
• The science between experiencing trauma in the womb and how it's lasting impact. 
• “In marriage, we do the work that we didn’t do in childhood.”
• Brittany's guest article: Do Good Moms Get Angry? 
• The 4-month postpartum hormonal time when you often think you have postpartum depression.
• Her intense anger with potty-training her daughter.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy and how it's helped her anger/anxiety.
• "We all have to do the work to heal the wound that we're not a good enough mother."
• Things that have helped her with her anger: Finding friends who you can trust to talk to, walking — something physical after her kids go to bed, validating anger and exploring anger, saying out loud: "I feel so angry about this."
• 2 questions to ask: What did my mom do that made her a good mom? What did my mom do that made her a bad mom?
• “It does actually take a lot to be a bad mom.”
• What makes you a bad mom in her opinion. 
• "Really, parents are just doing the best that they can."
• The importance of presence and how to know when it’s good to step away.
• “It’s not disloyal to realize that your parents weren’t perfect.” - Terri Cole
• What removing social media from her life has created for her.
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• Website

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