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- Discovering First Foods
Transitioning your baby to solid foods is a big step filled with questions and curiosities. What’s the best way to start? And how can you make this process as smooth as possible for both you and your baby?
In this episode, we’ll explore everything from the signs that your baby is ready for solids to tips for making mealtime enjoyable. So maybe grab a snack for yourself and let’s get started on this journey of rediscovering foods with your kiddo. Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- recognizing signs baby is ready for solids
- digestive changes
- balancing whole foods vs convenience foods
- building healthy relationships with food/sugar
- do's and don't of first foods
- intuitive eating
- Send us a voice note here or email us at [email protected]
Resources:
- info on babyled weaning, can also recommend this book
- info on Western A Price Method
- PAST EPISODE: Elimination Communication (EC) and Somatic Awareness
- EPISODE COMING SOON: Infant Milestones
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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43 min - Bound in Love: Exploring the Benefits of Belly Binding Postpartum
Join us in this episode as we unwrap the ancient practice of belly binding and its profound benefits for postpartum healing. From types of binding to personal experiences, we delve into the basics on how to belly bind and provide some useful resources to expand on belly binding to nurture your body during this transformative time.
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- what belly binding is
- different types of binding
- benefits of belly binding
- our experiences with belly binding postpartum
- when to belly bind and how long to wear if for
- doing binding yourself vs. having a practitioner help
Resources:
Video of Jen demoing faja or bandage binding
Postpartum Sealing (who Jen learned from)
article from Healthline with more info on Belly Binding Postpartum
Bengkung Belly Binding: this video and this video are good to demonstrate
COMING SOON: episodes on Yoni/Peri Steaming
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
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25 min - Grounded in YOU: How Prioritizing Yourself Benefits Everyone
In this episode, we dive into the concept of "filling your own cup;" exploring why self-care is not just a luxury but a necessity! One thing we love to remind people is your connection to yourself is a foundation for your connection to others and everything else in life. We discuss personal stories and go into simple tips on how to prioritize your well-being as a parent. From setting boundaries to embracing mindfulness, this episode is meant to help you ultimately give your best to yourself, and consequently, to those you love!
Resources:
example of parts integration exercise Amanda loves - there are lots of other resources out there around this work as well if you search "Parts Integration"
EPISODE COMING SOON: single parenting
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28 min - Tuning Into Life through The Art of "The Pause"
The Pause is a term that reminds us to take a moment, take a pause before proceeding forward. The Pause, is used in midwifery, by French parents, and can be used in many other areas of our life as well due to the benefits. Fun fact - while we were mid-editing for this very podcast episode we realized and decided to do exactly what we are talking about - take a pause. We're excited to be back after our own little pause and share this discussion on how taking a pause can improve life in profound ways.
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
definition of The Pause
what The Pause looks like in birth
how to apply The Pause in daily life
examples of The Pause in parenting and in life
the importance of The Pause and bringing awareness to it and incorporating it into life
taking The Pause with your partner
social media is it an official "pause", how it is used as a way to reset
Resources:
Oprah Video: Identifying Babies Cries
Parent Advisor: Dr. Laura Markham - Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
Podcast Episode on Redefining Rest: Perspectives on Honoring Our Body's Rhythms and Desire for Sleep
Podcast Episode on Sacred Magic of Slowing Down
French Book: French Children Don't Throw Food
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We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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31 min - Deep in The Void: Months 5-7 Post Birth
Pregnancy, birth, and newborns are often the most popular topics in new motherhood discussion, but today we're going to navigate a less-often mentioned timeframe: five to seven months after birth.
This timeframe presents its own set of challenges, but we're not afraid to face them head on and discuss ways to overcome them and offer support to new moms that continues well past birth!
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- settling into a whole new identity
- the challenge of expecting a routine when it doesn't exist
- energy/connections shifting
- changes in milk supply
- the importance of reaching out for support
- scheduling connection time with whoever supports you
- integrating more touch from others than the baby in your life (to sooth your nervous system) - hugs, massages, snuggles, etc.
Resources:
- Guilt as a Tool for Growth episode
- Kindered Spirits: Finding Genuine Friendships in Motherhood episode
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
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24 min - Pod Mama Milestone Moment 🎉 Celebrating Our First Year
Today is a very special episode! It’s officially our podcast’s solar return. We birthed this baby podcast into the world on the Gemini New Moon in 2023 and today we are taking a moment to celebrate officially being podcast ‘parents’ for one full journey around the sun. To say how full our hearts are from starting and being in this project is an understatement. We are excited for many more years ahead. Thanks for being with us on this journey as a listener. 🤗
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- different ways of looking at age (including a fun trick and play on words)
- why it’s important to take a pause and reflect on milestone moments
- what we’ve learned in our year of podcasting
- how much of what we are working through and learning as podcast co-hosts/parents is reflective of things we we going through in our first years post birth
- releasing the out come and enjoying the journey
- what happens when we enter a project or goals driven from a place of love instead of fear or desire
- what we’ve learned about communication, friendship and partnership in our first year as pod parents
Resources:
- Allison’s Wake The Talk Up Communication Course
- Episode: Solstice Gratitude, Love and Magic
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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30 min - Guilt as a Tool for Growth
Guilt - specifically parent guilt - can be such a heavy emotion. In this episode, we acknowledge and sit with this uncomfortable emotion and look at the gifts we can receive from truly allowing and being with our guilt.
You'll hear some of our own experiences and examples of parent guilt as well as strategies we've used to cope with it. Let's celebrate that love is at the core of guilt, and we're all doing the best we can!
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- what guilt is and the different types we might experience
- the balance between feeling the emotion and nurturing yourself and relationship/situation
- finding community so you don't feel alone
- societal pressures
- reframing guilty thoughts + perspective
- guilt as part of growth and expansion as a parent
- our own parental guilt experiences
Resources:
- Post Partum Depression help
- Episode: "Taking Extended Solo Time and Separation from Our Babies (of all ages)"
- Episode: "Co-creating and Finding Spaces To Play (without your children) While Being a Parent"
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
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31 min - Simple Feng Shui to Change your Life with Patricia Lohan
The saying "as within, so without" is one that many people know. Today we flip that saying and look at how our home and surroundings can energetically impact our inner lives and how we can make simple adjustments to find more flow and balance. Tune into this inspiring chat with Feng Shui expert Patricia Lohan, who has helped thousands of people change their life and through the practice of Feng Shui. We talk about how how to use and integrate this tool as a parent and how powerful it can be for children in our lives as well. Listen in to see how simple changes around your home can become life changing.
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- the principles of Feng Shui, and how is not just about esthetics. It is so much more than that.
- how simple Feng Shui can help you conceive, improve relationships, finances, health, and even make your postpartum life more balanced.
- how our environment effects us and simple things we can do to improve all areas of our lives.
- what you can do today to get started "Fun Shui-ing" your home
- as within so without and how the without can be a reflection and impact of energies within
- the first thing to look at (super simple) when calling in a baby
- simple changes for the bedroom you can implement today
- starting with gratitude for what exists and adding on top of that
- the difference between normal daily mess of life/living and clutter
- Chinese astrology and cycles related to your home
- how to start with just one small space and how this will make a huge difference
Resources:
- Patricia Lohan's Website
- exercise you can do today called ‘fresh eyes’ (this video talks more about it)
- Feng 101 - $9 Mini Course
- Powerhouse Membership
- Patrica's Facebook & Instgram
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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48 min - From Doing to Being: Finding Harmony in Parenthood and Life
In the last couple of years there have been lots of spaces and people emphasizing the 'being' before 'doing'. But what does this actually mean? How does it relate to parenthood or life with a newborn?
Jen and I have a casual convo about this topic inspired from her own personal life navigations. We touch on the doing/being balance both in parenthood and in life in general, give some examples and laugh about the paradox of 'doing' something to get to the 'being'.
As always thank you for BEING an amazing pod listener... enjoy this fun convo. 💬 🍵
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- doing all the things but nothing is working
- the dance of doing and being and how these are woven together
- releasing the outcome and how when you ground in 'being' it is easier to release the outcome in your 'doing'
- intention behind what you are doing - tuning into what is in alignment for YOU in the moment
- what exactly is doing and being - how do you define it
- parenting advice and when do we act from the noise of advice vs. our inner guidance
- reaction vs. response and how this relates to doing vs. being
- relating the 'doing' and 'being' to labor and how life phases are like birth cycles
- "who do I want to be and what's my intention in doing this"
- the act of self-care as doing
Resources:
- our intentions workbook and intentions meditation recording - sign up on this page to get these for free
- Kathrine Zenkina's podcast episode that had the quote we mentioned + is a great follow-up episode to this on when to take action and doing/being balance -- her quote "I always laugh at that question whenever someone asks me what they need to do to be. If there is a doing that leads to a being when they have to be a being... so there is no doing to the being, it's just the being."
- our episode on parent rest and sleep (we talk about taking the edgy actions to BE a person that prioritizes self care)
- our episode about unsolicited advice (also can lead to 'doing' first)
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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29 min - Fed With Love 🍼 ❤️🤱
As parents (especially new ones) we are always trying to do what is best for our kiddos. Many of us have heard the term "breast is best" and know the many benefits of breastmilk.
However, what isn't promoted as much is the beauty and balance of the use of formula, donor milk or some other supplemental option as a tool that that can be incredibly beneficial. Jen and I want to start a new saying that came out of this conversation: "Fed with love."
We talk about how intention and love in whatever way you feed you kiddo is really what is best for everyone.
Some of the topics we explore in this episode include:
- finding balance with supplemental milk and formula
- how to balance modern society parenting with ancient/cultural ways
- the sayings "Brest is Best" vs "Fed is Best"
Resources:
- Episode on Breastfeeding
- Episode on Elimination Communication
- study of water molecules and words/intentions
Have questions? Any other topics you want us to chat on? Leave us a voicemail here: www.speakpipe.com/JustThis
We are excited to share more episodes with you on topics that light us up and that YOU want us to talk about. Join in on the convo and tell us what you are loving or wanting more of at www.justthis.site.
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About JUST BE
From the publisher's feed
A podcast around navigating the journey into parenthood with conversations that go deeper than the highlight reel. Each episode peels back the layers of becoming and being a parent to explore what…
lives underneath: your body, your relationships, your identity alongside the beauty, the challenges, the intimacy, the transformation and all thats in between. Equal parts grounded and mystical, this podcast is a place to feel less alone and more connected to yourself and your life.