High Capacity – Nervous System Regulation, Stress Management, Burnout Recovery, Somatic Tools, Anxiety, Boundaries, Overwhelm

What is toxic positivity?  And how can we encourage our kids to have a positive outlook on life without pushing a “good vibes only” message?

In today’s episode, we explore two things that optimism is not – toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing.  I teach how we can be intentional about ensuring that we’re not dismissing our children’s feelings or substituting our experiences for theirs.

I also coach you through 4 powerful questions we can ask ourselves to challenge our (sometimes pessimistic) paradigms and how our brain can be re-wired to see and experience all the good in this world.

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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What if I told you that you can use Conscious Parenting methods to grow your self-awareness and transform your marriage?

In today’s episode, Conscious Parenting & Marriage Coach, Beth Rowles, walks us through her proven system to build healthy relationships.  

“The relationship itself is what you're not happy with. It's not him, it's the relationship itself that’s not working. And you both co-created that. Right now, you're both playing a role in it. And if you step out of this role that you're playing, he has no choice but to step out of the role that he's been playing. So, you can literally shift that relationship dynamic out of something that's dysfunctional, into something that's healthy, by just refusing to play your current role in it.” - Beth Rowles

Three things you’ll learn in this episode:

1. How to move your relationships in a healthier direction when you feel stuck
2. How to change your marriage without “fixing” your husband
3. How to share your feelings with ownership to foster healthy communication with your spouse.

To connect with Beth, head to:

• Her website: Authentic Wife and Mom
• Her podcast: The Authentic Wife Show Podcast
• IG & FB: @familybeing

• MOTHERHOOD SHOW NOTES: 57 Show Notes - Beth Rowles
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

At the core of it, raising open-minded kids means that our kids have the ability to notice and consider things that are different – and then reach for curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. 

In today’s episode, I talk about exposing our kids to diversity and how we can start to foster their independent, critical-thinking skills. 

I also coach on the crucial art of listening, and how our kids can’t begin to be open-minded until they’re willing to genuinely listen to the stories, perspectives, and concerns of others.

And finally, I challenge all of us parents to check ourselves – how are we modeling open-mindedness for our children? How are we responding to those around us with curiosity and compassion, rather than judgment?

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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🧠 What's your capacity pattern? 

Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that today’s guest has probably had an impact on your pregnancy and motherhood journey.  Sharon Mazel is a parenting and pregnancy expert, co-author of various books from the What to Expect When You're Expecting series, journalist, speaker, parenting coach, and mom of four with over two decades of experience in the field.

In today's episode, Sharon is setting the record straight and debunking myths we’ve been conditioned to believe about pregnancy and motherhood that simply aren’t true.

Three things you’ll learn in this episode:

1. How much emphasis we should place on our children reaching certain milestones
2. How to manage the moments of overwhelm, especially as a new mama
3. Practical tips for potty training and helping our children eat well

To connect with Sharon, head to:

• Her website: sharonmazel.com
• Her socials: Instagram (@sharonmazel), Facebook, and Twitter

“Don’t feel guilty about it. There are times when we’re in survival mode as moms, and we just have to get through the day.  And however we get through the day - that is surviving and that is amazing. Aside from safety considerations, most of the other things we worry about aren’t that important. Do the rules say X? Fine, that would be ideal, but we don't live in an ideal world. So sometimes just surviving is ok.” - Sharon Mazel

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

It fires me up to imagine how this world will change as we raise a generation that recognizes the needs of others and steps up to meet those needs.

Our kids are incredible – even from a young age we can really empower them to live a life of service. When our kids serve others, it helps them to see and believe that they can make a difference in the lives of others.  And I think when they see that, they’re able to embody the belief that they can make a difference in their own lives too.

Listen to today’s episode to learn how we can make service a family habit and ways we can let our kids take the lead in serving others.  

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• MOTHERHOOD SHOW NOTES: Ep. 54 Show Notes - Raising Kids Who Serve
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

Have you ever thought about starting your own podcast?  Do you have a service or product-based business or side-hustle? Are you called to finally start that passion project and encourage others?

If your answer to any of these is yes, today’s episode is for YOU, friend!

My business mentor, Stefanie Gass, is on the podcast teaching everything you need to know to build and market your online business!

Stef is the host of the top 0.5% globally ranked podcast for Christian entrepreneurs, The Stefanie Gass Show.  She helps women get clear on their niche, start a podcast, and grow a successful online business, God's way.

“Start a show and see where God takes it.  I know He’s equipped you in the things you’re called to do - and you do it so well, that sometimes you miss it – so that you can help other people. He’s taken you through the trials and the hard stuff in your life, and He’s brought you through to the other side so that you can help other people create a testimony out of the same thing.  You’re supposed to use your voice for impact. – Stefanie Gass

Three things you’ll learn in this episode:

1. How to create impact and income God’s way;
2. Why social media marketing is dead and how Stef’s pivot to podcasting created massive growth in her business; and
3. How you can use podcasting to grow your service or product-based business, even as a busy mama.

USE THIS LINK TO CHECK OUT STEF’S PODCASTING COURSE (this is the same course I took to start my podcast!): Podcast Pro University

To connect with Stef, head to:

• Podcast: https://stefaniegass.com/thepodcast
• Website: www.stefaniegass.com
• FB group: Stef Gass Community

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• MOTHERHOOD SHOW NOTES: Ep. 53 Show Notes - Building an Online Business with Stef Gass
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

How our children see themselves, is heavily influenced by how we see ourselves. Our confidence (or lack thereof) is contagious! And for our children to thrive and continue to walk in their calling and purpose, they’re going to need a certain level of confidence. 

We’ve all experienced it, right?  How we feel about ourselves has a huge impact on:

• how we behave,
• how we think,
• the risks we’re willing to take,
• the relationships we have,
• the careers we pursue, and
• so many other facets of our lives.

In today’s episode, I explain why we need to be intentional about the labels we’re speaking over kids. I also coach on how important it is that we’re doing our own inner work (and where to start), because the insecurities and hang-ups we carry are having an impact on our children.

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• MOTHERHOOD SHOW NOTES: 52 Show Notes - 4 Tips for Raising Confident Kids
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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🧠 What's your capacity pattern? 

Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

Real talk – have you ever found yourself in a rough season of motherhood where you deeply loved your kids, but you just didn’t feel like there was much to like in the moment?

In today’s episode, Jenna Griffith, host of the top-rated show The Joy Filled Podcast,  shares how we can find peace and purpose through both the highs and lows of motherhood.

“Motherhood was always my dream job. So it was earth shattering to me when I started feeling those feelings of like, is this it?  One thing that I learned is that our calling doesn't change depending on the season we're in. Our calling is to love Jesus and to make him known to the people around us. And so when we're rooted in that eternal purpose, and take our eyes off of right now and put them back on eternity, then the assignments that we have, we can do wholeheartedly unto God. Because that's the thing about life - we have lots of different assignments, and right now our assignment is motherhood.” – Jenna Griffith

Three things you’ll learn in this episode:

1. A mindset shift for mom guilt
2. How to invite more joy into our homes
3. How to find peace in the chaos

To connect with Jenna, head to:

• The podcast: The Joy Filled Podcast
• Instagram: @jennagriffithco @joyfilledpodcast

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• MOTHERHOOD INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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🧠 What's your capacity pattern? 

Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

For the longest time, I associated being creative with being artistic.  I couldn't draw or sing, so I believed that I wasn't creative.  Have you ever felt this way?

And then I realized that my kids would never say "I’m not creative."  They’re creating all day long.  They’re inventing imaginary worlds, they’re painting and drawing on any surface available, they're making up songs and singing – they’re constantly creating. 

So where along the journey do we lose this creativity?  Creativity isn't limited to artistic expression. Innovation is creative. Scientific discovery is creative.  Problem-solving is creative.  Writing and speaking are creative.  The truth is that we were all created to create.

In today's episode, you'll learn 3 key ways you can help your children remain aware of the power they hold to create so that creativity becomes a practice and continues to be a lifestyle for them.

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• SHOW NOTES: 50 – Raising Creative Children
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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🧠 What's your capacity pattern? 

Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz

We all tend to go into certain Personality Patterns when we’re feeling overwhelmed or experiencing some sort of stress in our lives.

There are 5 Personality Patterns, and whenever we realize that we've gone into a Pattern, our first job is to get ourselves out of the Pattern and back to being present.

In today’s episode, I’m going to coach you on how to get out of each Pattern once you notice you’re in it.  Because when we’re able to get out of Pattern, we have access to our learning brain, and we can operate as our true and authentic selves.  This allows us to interact with our kids, partner, and all the other people in our lives – not from a skewed defensive Pattern – but through a clear lens.

• TAKE THE PERSONALITY PATTERN QUIZ - Personality Quiz
• 1-ON-1 COACHING: From Insight to Outcome - Life Coaching with Michelle
• CHECK OUT MY FREE 5-STEP MORNING ROUTINE FOR MOMS: My 5-Step Morning Routine
• MOTHERHOOD VILLAGE FB COMMUNITY: The Motherhood Village
• INSTAGRAM: @michellegrosser.coach

“I love The Motherhood Podcast!” ← if that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing our show!  This helps us support more women, just like you, on their motherhood journey.  Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.”  Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!

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🧠 What's your capacity pattern? 

Take the free 2-minute quiz and unlock The Capacity Code — a personalized private podcast episode for your specific nervous system. 

→ Take the Capacity Pattern Quiz