Today, Kari Cravalho is talking all about balancing motherhood. Kari has a professional background in corporate Human Resources and became a stay at home mom to two kids. She then developed the desire to work with mothers navigating transitions in and out of the workforce. Kari now balances motherhood AND fulfilling her purpose through coaching in the motherhood space by helping women to strike that balance of motherhood, career, and self.

This was an honest and open conversation about evolving as a mother, as well as conversations about wealth, creating a life you want for yourself, and “spring cleaning the mind.”

Kari Cravalho Coaching, LLC

website: www.cravalhocoaching.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kari.bratzler

IG: www.instagram.com/kari_cravalho_coaching

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kari-cravalho-mba-certified-coach-1177a7/

Schedule a free 15 min fitting call with Kari: https://calendly.com/karicravalhocoaching/15-min-fitting-call

Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition.

As a warning, this episode today will be a heavy topic and mention mental health issues, including addiction and suicide.

As Holly discusses, this was a hard episode to record, and is therefore raw and unscripted. Holly talks about a loss in her life to suicide, the impact on addiction and alcoholism in a family, and some of the male cultural norms in society which make mental health and addiction difficult to cope and/or escape. And also, serve as a reminder that we all have struggles and that kindness, and empathy, can go a long way.

A message from Holly: I appreciate your kindness in listening to this episode. I realize the audio did not turn out great, and also, you can hear my kids yelling in the background at one point! I will work on improving this. Also, this was a raw episode for me to record, and I hope to expand on the topic and be more organized. But sometimes we all just need to share our thoughts, unscripted and uncensored. This was that for me, so thank you.

Book recommendations:

Scars and Stripes by Tim Kennedy

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti, MD

It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn

Widen the Window by Elizabeth Stanley, PhD

Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner

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Interested in becoming part of my community, and getting an email with the links to the products mentioned in today’s episode? Head to www.hollyloganhealth.com or her Instagram page @hollylogan_health

Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition.

Today’s podcast guest is with Courtney Huffman of Functional Face — a certified orofacial myologist with a passion for quality sleep and breathing. Mouth breathing, snoring, tongue ties, adenoids, and tonsils seem to be hot topics in the wellness world. Why? Because quality sleep is important to executive functioning, memories, learning, growth hormone release, and so much more.

In this episode, you will learn about airway dysfunction and some of Courtney’s special interests – stemming from sleep issues with her own child who exhibited signs of ADHD – including mouth breathing remediation, tethered oral tissues (tongue ties), TMJ dysfunction disorders, and how they can impact an adult’s and child’s sleep (and therefore stress and behaviors!).

You can find Courtney on her website for online consultations and treatment at: https://www.functionalfaceomt.com

Instagram: @functionalface

How to find other therapies:

International Association of Orofacial Myology

International Association Airway Hygienists

Myomunchee Tool

Airway Dentists Locator

DISCLAIMER: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition, and before adding or removing supplements.

Poop is always a fun conversation and uncomfortable for many (unintentional pun there), but being able to consistently go to the bathroom is so important. In this episode, Holly shares some of her personal strategies for battling constipation and what she would do for her children if they struggled with constipation. This episode could be helpful for someone struggling with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms including chronic constipation. Holly talks about dietary changes, Celiac testing, the importance of remineralizing our water, and some of ther supplements she chooses for herself and family.

DISCLAIMER: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition, and before adding or removing supplements.

Find the blog post with links HERE: THE POOP BLOG

Today’s episode is with Markella Kaplani. Markella’s extensive work and background in counseling led her to notice the inordinate load that mothers are expected to carry and the minimal emotional support they receive, which motivated her to pivot in her work. Markella talks about identity in motherhood, finding balance in the struggles, using “mom brain” to our advantage, and generational trauma. This is a conversation that will bring you a ton of value to your life.

Markella holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and a Masters in Clinical-Counseling Psychology, and also holds a Special Ed Postgrad and Child Counseling certification, and worked in the special education sector parallel to counseling for 15 years. She now has her Mama Rising Coach and Facilitator certification, and is currently also training in pre- and post-partum maternal care. You can find Markella at all of these links below:

Free 5-day mini-video series on Reclaiming Your Identity in Motherhood Link: www.markellakaplani.com/videoseries

Thriving Moms Circle membership Link: www.markellakaplani.com/membership

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markella.kaplani

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markellakaplani.motherhoodcoach

Why We Struggle in Motherhood https://www.markellakaplani.com/post/why-we-struggle-in-motherhood

This is the second episode of Holly’s Health Hub series (Episode 5 is the Intro, Episode 6 is Our Relationship with Food and Self-Esteem) where Holly talks all about her personal goals and experiences with removing products from her household. We are calling this the Mindful Removal one because it is not about restriction to perfection… It is about aiming for better choices in our home, living without shame, and where we can make changes to our pantries today and tomorrow for generational health and wellness.

Interested in becoming part of my community, and getting an email with the links to the products mentioned in today’s episode? Head to hollyloganhealth.com or her instagram page @hollylogan_health

Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition.

Today we welcome Hannah Gill, owner of Ebb and Flow Birth Co, a doula and birth educator who specializes in VBAC (vaginal birth after Cesarean) support and Cesarean support. Hannah is a former operations supervisor for a biotechnology company but recently gave her notice so she could pour into her passions surrounding birth education and birth autonomy. You will be captivated by Hannah’s voice and her pillars for empowerment surrounding decision-making strength in motherhood and beyond. This conversation flows into a powerful conversation surrounding pregnancy and how we discover that internal voice as we pivot into motherhood/parenthood.

Hannah and Holly collaborated on this FREE guide for expecting and new mothers focused on the importance of tummy time, including:

A free video on the importance of tummy time with strategies for fun and bonding,

A free PDF guide with 5 benefits to tummy time and ideas of how to do tummy time with your newborn or infant,

AND a free tummy time meditation!

GRAB YOUR FREEBIES HERE: https://www.ebbandflowbirthco.com/tummytime

You can find Hannah on IG @ebbandflowbirthco

Her website at www.ebbandflowbirthco.com

Her podcast is Ebb and Flow Birth Show

Today we are joined by Alexa of mama.matters.too – a Texas mama with her Masters in nutrition, a certified doula, and pediatric sleep consultant.

Sleep is a hot topic in the new mom, motherhood, parenthood, pediatric world… isn’t it? Because managing sleep and understanding newborn to infant to toddler to childhood sleep is a complicated topic. Many of the modern sleep training approaches lead with some kind of “one size fits all” approach – but that is not how Alexa leads her business. Her passions were built from her own sleep struggles with her son, and she aims to support moms through sleep AND beyond. Her intention is to not just focus on sleep, but help mama too. Here we discuss sleep, difficulties postpartum, postpartum balance and nutrition, and more.

You can find Alexa on IG @mama.matters.too

On her website at https://mamamatterstoo.com/

Here is the link to her free PDF https://mamamatterstoo.myflodesk.com/kaoej0wb0d

This is the book mentioned: The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Heng Ou

Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition. Interested in becoming part of my community, and getting an email with the links to the products mentioned in today’s episode? Head to www.hollyloganhealth.com or her Instagram page @hollylogan_health

Dulcius ex asperis…. Sweeter after difficulties.

This was a quote shared with Holly after the interview and it was most fitting to be part of the title of the episode. For many people, this may be a difficult story to hear or even comprehend, but Ellie of Sophisticated Grace Studio bravely told her story publicly here for the first time. Ellie shares the story of her loss of her daughter, Caroline, who was congenitally diagnosed with anencephaly. This condition is a neural tube defect not compatible with life, and therefore Eliie was only able to hold her baby for less than 2 hours.

Ellie’s hope is that sharing her story allows even just one mother to grieve and heal, and know they are not alone in their story. Her creative outlet for grief was her business which she rebranded in remembrance of Caroline: Sophisticated Grace Studio.

You can connect with Ellie at https://sophisticatedgracestudio.com/

And on her Instagram at @sophisticatedgracestudio

Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition.

This is the first part of Holly’s Health Hub (go back to Episode 5 for a quick introduction!) where Holly talks all about her own personal relationship with food struggles, body struggles, disordered eating, and self-esteem. But this is not just about her story – this is about helping women and families understand their own personal relationships with food, how it impacts their self esteem and mood, how it impacts their eating habits, and also just how we feel physically when we are not fueling ourselves (whether it is restricting, binge eating, or anywhere on the spectrum). Holly Logan is a Masters prepared nurse and board certified family nurse practitioner with a particular interest in helping families build generational health by creating sustainable actions for head-to-toe wellness. Disclaimer: This podcast is meant to be supportive and educational. None of the information from this podcast is intended to be medical advice. Holly is not a counselor or therapist. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified healthcare provider regarding a medical condition. Interested in becoming part of my community, and getting an email with the links to the products mentioned in today’s episode? Head to hollyloganhealth.com or her instagram page @hollylogan_health