Knotty Mama

Hello Knotty ladies and welcome to another week and another episode of the Knotty Mama Podcast! This episode is about anxiety. A topic that is so massive it has been covered by hundreds of books, podcasts, scientific studies and at the forefront of effects from the last year we've had during the pandemic. For me, anxiety has been present in my life since high school, always present and sometimes literally debilitating. I could talk on this topic for hours but this time around, I want to ...

Hello Knotty Ladies! If you're anything like me then you probably started singing right along with this title. Although I am not a big fan of the movies that made this song popular, I do however love to watch my boys dancing to it...so friggin cute!I digress. So, a new episode and this one is about my journey through many, many different types of fitness modalities and how they started out as healthy ways to move my body then turned into wicked tools to turn good habits into unhealthy ways to...

Welcome! Thank you for joining me on another episode of the Knotty Mama Podcast! I am so grateful that you chose to spend some of your time with me, especially because time is precious and I know we're all super busy.This week's episode lands on my birthday week woot woot! And as previously stated in the episode about the boys' birthday, I get super reminiscent as well as goal-oriented on this special day of birth! So, as I usually am, I had a reflection and epiphany about what I want to cele...

Welcome! Thank you for joining me again this week, as always I am overjoyed that you decided to take time out of your day to listen in! This week I am piggy backing a bit off of last week's episode and talking about my reaction to not getting into the masters degree program I had applied to. It dawned on me, during my therapy appointment yesterday, that all of the work I've been doing on myself to be healthier in mind and spirit, emotionally, finally paid off and I didn't even realize it!&nbs...

Welcome!! This episode is all about my journey to finding peace in the pause instead of the anxiety in the push. Releasing social norms and societal pressure to keep trying to barrel my way through things when they're just not working because "I'm not trying hard enough" or "I'm not doing it right" or "I'm a failure if I don't get this right, or do this right, or master this etc!" Not true, so so not true. I'm challenging myself to ironically push back in this and instead of trying to push an...

Welcome! This week I talk about one of my favorite topics...kindness! And more specifically, kindness to yourself, self-love and all that "gushy, feel good" stuff but delivered in a real and straight to the point way!I talk about the self-love work I've been doing on myself this year. Instead of a resolution, I decided to focus on a goal and being kinder to myself was the one that I picked! So far, it is changing everything in my life in such a beautiful way. Changing how I feel, how I think,...

Welcome! This is a special episode as I reminisce about the last few years because the boys turned FIVE last Friday!! I cannot believe it, my mind is still blown but here I am, still standing with a lot more gray hairs, an achy hip and saggier boobs but I'm here!In this episode I share the top five lessons I've learned in motherhood over the last five years and the top five lessons learned in womanhood because I've grown lightyears in both arenas in life. Here's the down and dirty for motherh...

Welcome to the first Knotty Mama Podcast Meditation episode!I hope this finds you alone, in a quiet place and with enough time to feel that you’re not rushed…so vital to really being in the moment and spending this time on you and only you for all the good benefits.My meditation practice started about 14 years ago when I took a Buddhism class in college. From that point on I have been going back to it time and time again to find myself, remember that focusing on the breath is vital for a calm...

Welcome! For this episode, I was inspired by a completely random source at an unexpected moment. All while I was sweating and moving to one of my all-time favorite workout instructors at Obe. More on this amazing workout platform in a later episode, all I will say is if you haven't heard of it, now you have and if you haven't tried it, get to it!!Here is the quote that I couldn't stop thinking of during this moment:Be kind.For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.&nbs...

Welcome! This episode was inspired by a quote from yours truly:Don't drink the lukewarm coffee!Short, sweet and inspired by the nasty lukewarm coffee I've been passively settling for, for way too long! But not any more! I realized that making a fresh cup of hot coffee that I would enjoy approximately a million times more than that nasty neglected cup of joe, was well worth a little bit of a wait and some extra negotiations with the kiddos to give mama a few more minutes to get herself right f...