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Mother's Day stirs up something different in all of us - warmth, grief, indifference, or something in between. In this episode, we get real about what Mother’s Day can bring up, and why we can still celebrate all of it, and why — counterintuitively — having a strained or non-existent relationship with your mom might actually be your greatest gift. This is a Mother's Day episode for every kind of mother, every kind of daughter, and every woman doing the inner work to claim a new level of worthiness.
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"The trigger is the gift. What is on the other side of that is really claiming what you desire — but more than that, it is claiming new levels of what you desire to unfold."
"If you desire something in your life but your subconscious doesn't think you are worthy of it, it is going to be nearly impossible for that thing to come to fruition."
"I would never be where I'm at today in terms of my ability to meet and tend to and love and mother all parts of myself mindfully — if it weren't for the mother that I have."
"Let's all collectively decide to step into a new level of worthiness and self-worth — no matter what our relationship is with our mom."
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What's Coming Next
However Mother's Day lands for you this year — with joy, grief, or something messier — you belong here. The school is a place where all of it is welcome, and where the healing happens in community. Reach out, get on the list, and keep going.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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Mother's Day is coming — and for some of us, it lands with a kind of grief that's almost impossible to explain. This episode was inspired by a deeply moving session with our Untethered alum group: a community of women navigating dysfunctional or estranged relationships with their moms. If you're a mom who has a hard relationship with your mom, this one's for you — and it might be the most important thing you share this season.
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"I am honestly ready for my mom to die — and all I want is my mom. And there's not a lot of groups where you can say something like that and people are nodding their heads."
"Your relationship with your mom is so foundational, so profoundly foundational to everything in your life — how you mother, how you relate to yourself. It creeps in."
"The next best resource, ultimately, is you — to learn how to insource what you are seeking from your mom."
"This is really hard. Hand on heart. This is hard. That's the first practice."
"What we practice, we get good at."
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What's Coming Next
If this episode spoke to you, don't keep it to yourself — share it with a mom in your life who struggles around Mother's Day. And if you're ready to stop white-knuckling it alone and start doing this work with support, reach out about the one-on-one spot or explore the Flourished Mother Map as your first step.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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This week, I'm doing something a little different - recording a non-episode episode as a gentle reminder that we are not meant to be on all the time. I’m away with my kids on school vacation week, and I invite you to consider this your official permission slip to rest, to tap out, to stop producing at the pace you think you should. Because you are a cyclical being, which means you are meant to ebb, flow, and be consistently inconsistent!
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"We are not meant to be on all the time — in business, in life, in motherhood, in our relationships, in and with our bodies."
"We are cyclical beings and women are part of nature. We are not meant to be on the same 24-hour cycle that men are on because our hormones don't work that way."
"Cut yourself some slack, sign out, and get some rest."
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What's Coming Next
Sarah will be back next week with a brand new episode. In the meantime, take this week's episode for what it is - permission to rest.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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You've heard of the mental load — but what if we've been calling it the wrong thing all along? In this episode, I'm making the case that there's no such thing as just a mental load, and why getting the name right is the first step toward actually getting relief. I go deep into the brain-body load, the MOMsight framework, and why real change doesn't happen by shuffling tasks around — it happens in the body.
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"Mental load suggests it's just thoughts in our head — and it's not. So we need to call that out."
"Each of these tasks comes with a different emotional load. It lives differently in your body. The real estate that it takes up is different."
"So often we are in thoughts and emotions and making choices from an unconscious place — which means we actually don't have control. Our programming is running the show."
"It's not so simple as moving tasks around. And the more we see it that way, the less we support ourselves and shift what's happening at a root level in our bodies."
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What's Coming Next
If this episode stirred something in you, you're ready to go deeper. Take the first step with the Flourished Mother Map at https://theschoolofmom.com/map — and if one-on-one support feels like the right next step, Sarah would love to hear from you.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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In today’s episode, I'm calling out one of the most repeated lines in coaching and personal development, and offering you something that's actually true instead. Spoiler: you have more control than you think - it's just not where you've been told to look for it.
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"90 to 95% of our experience — the lens through which we see the world — is coming from our unconscious, which lives in our body."
"You will be surprised. I am surprised every time — I didn't think anything was gonna come through. And wow, I am so grateful I did that."
"You actually don't really have control over your reaction in the moment. But you do have control over the support that you decide to get."
"What you do have control over is the reprogramming and the tending and the grounding you did to be in a body that supports you to react in the way that you want to."
"Talking around in circles about the thing you wanna do is not going to help you change it in the moment."
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What's Coming Next
If this episode stirred something in you, the next step is simple: choose the support. Whether that's a Flourished Mother Map, a one-on-one session, or joining the Flourish community — the work you do before the moment is what changes the moment.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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What's the point? It's a question that can feel heavy — or become one of the most grounding, clarifying inquiries of your life. In this episode, I'm zooming way out on the School of MOM exists, the personal through-lines that have shaped this work, and what I truly hope for every mother who walks with me here. If you've ever found yourself swirling in the "why" of it all — around mothering, your life, your work — this one's for you.
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"What's the point? Not from the lens of 'what's the point' — that's very dorsal vagal, very shutdown. But what is the point?"
"The next best person to fill the hole that's left when your mom can't fill the bucket is you."
"Mothering Ourselves Mindfully was really about me becoming the mother to myself that I always needed and I never had."
"I don't want my 30-something-year-old daughter attending a workshop on how and why she needs to make more time for herself."
"Integration means closing the gap between what you know and what you feel and you're doing in your life."
"This is it. This is what I've been working for — being that sturdy, compassionate, patient, loving human for her."
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What's Coming Next
Keep asking the question. Whether it feels clarifying or a little jarring — that's the work. Come share how this episode lands for you, grab a Flourished Mother Map, and keep walking toward the most flourished version of yourself.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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I'm recording this one on a windy day, and it feels fitting because this episode is unfiltered. I've been sitting with a growing frustration around a word that I've used a lot in this space, and I need to talk about it: regulated. As much as I believe in what it means in the nervous system sense, something has shifted - in me, in this cultural moment, and in what I want to model for my daughters. So I'm officially retiring the word, and replacing it with something that actually captures what we're building here: flourished.
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"I don't want to be regulated. I want to be flourished."
"Your kids don't need a perfect mom. They need a flourished mom."
"She's the woman that is unapologetically living in a nervous system that is embracing the whole spectrum."
"I don't want my girls to grow up feeling like they have to work so hard to be regulated all the time."
"I want to be living my most fun, playful, unapologetically human life — which means I'm sad and I'm angry and I lose my temper. That's what I want to model."
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What's Coming Next
Stay close — we're continuing to explore what it actually looks and feels like to be a Flourished Mother, from the inside out.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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It's my birthday week, and I'm out on the road celebrating with something special — opening up a limited number of Flourished Mother Map sessions to the wider community for the very first time. In this episode, I walk you through exactly what the Flourished Mother Map is, why it's the foundation of everything we do in the School of MOM, and introduce a metaphor that might just change how you see your patterns forever: your motherhood GPS. We explore who programmed it, where it's actually taking you — and how to reroute.
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"You have been put in a self-driving car that has its own destination — and you didn't pick it."
"You can have the newest planner, but you're still in the same place, because you're still in that outdated, unhelpful programming."
"We can't blame the flower for not blooming. We have to look at the conditions that the flower is planted in."
"My wellbeing, my nervous system state is at the nucleus of the thriving and flourishing of my family."
"We need support to make our own unconscious conscious."
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What's Coming Next
If this episode had you wondering who's really driving your car, reach out — Sarah would love to do a Flourished Mother Map with you. And watch this space: exciting things are ahead at the School of MOM.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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In this episode, I talk about one of the most foundational concepts in the work we do here at The School of Mom: selves leadership. This is the thread that runs through everything — through the Mothering Ourselves Mindfully framework, through what it really means to want to "be a better mom," and through how we show up in a world that is desperately hungry for grounded, mature, emotionally attuned adults. If you've ever looked around and wondered where are the adults in the room? — this one is for you.
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"We are becoming the unicorns here in The School of Mom."
"No one is coming to save us. We actually have to become those humans that we so desperately crave in our lives."
"Awakening versus creating — it's so much more challenging to create something from scratch than to tap into what is already there."
"When mothers learn how to lead all parts of themselves, you create emotional safety for yourself — and you create emotional safety for your kids."
"We all have an assignment right now, and that is to wake up."
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What's Coming Next
We're continuing to explore what it means to truly mother ourselves mindfully — not as a self-improvement project, but as a profound act of leadership. Stay close for what's coming next at The School of Mom.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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In this episode, I'm walking through a snowy winter scene reflecting on a question that's been coming up a lot lately: what does it really mean to want to be a better mom? I share the story of my very first brand positioning statement from 2020, why I pushed back on it then, and why five years later I've completely changed my mind. This episode is an invitation to explore how growth and self-compassion aren't opposites — and why wanting more for yourself as a mom is something to be proud of.
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"There is nothing wrong with you as you are, and you still get to want more from yourself."
"Better, ironically, means that you've integrated the parts of yourselves that don't feel like they're good enough."
"I am perfectly imperfect. I embrace all parts of myself — and they're super lucky because of that."
"It's possible to grow and to be better without shame."
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What's Coming Next
If this episode stirred something in you, send Sarah a voice note or share it with a mom friend you can go on a walk with and ask: "What does being a better mom mean to you?" Those are exactly the conversations the School of Mom is here for.
Thank you for tuning in to this episode of "Mothering Ourselves Mindfully." We look forward to sharing more insights and inspiration in the upcoming episodes!
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