In honor of Infertility Awareness Week, Sarah sits down with crowd favorites Erin and Stephen Mitchell from Couples Counseling for Parents to discuss how trying to conceive, infertility, and pregnancy loss affect relationships. From self-blame to communication breakdown, this honest conversation explores navigating this incredibly difficult journey and having hard conversations with yourself and your partner. 

Erin and Stephen are the cofounders of Couples Counseling for Parents, a company focused on providing access to research-informed, psychologically sound online education for couples. Both have a clinical education—Stephen, a PhD in medical family therapy, and Erin, a master’s degree in counseling psychology—and they have a combined 23 years of experience providing counseling and education. They have been married for 16 years and have three kids.

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Sarah and Lori explore why unpaid family care is undervalued and how this impacts stay-at-home moms. Lori shares her personal journey, debunking myths and offering resources to redefine motherhood in a way that honors mental health and self-worth. Tune in for an eye-opening conversation on shifting societal views and creating a more equitable family dynamic.

Lori Sugarman-Li believes deeply in the power of families and is a passionate voice in the cultural shift aiming to articulate the value and visibility of unpaid work. Her career as a Communications Strategist, combined with a decade devoted to full-time care of her family, community, and children's charities worldwide, served as the inspirational backdrop for her professional relaunch as a Coach, Speaker, and Author. She is dedicated to fostering meaningful conversations within families, encouraging them to contemplate how they care for one another and their shared space. Lori, her husband, and two sons are Canadian-born and live steps from Lake Michigan in Chicago.

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If you are in therapy yourself you know what brought you and why. But, have you ever thought what other reasons are there to seek therapy? In this week we episode Sarah quizzes Whitney on what brings clients to see her. From life transitions, maternal mental health, or grief we guarantee you can relate.

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In this week’s episode Sarah and Whitney discuss a common yet not talked about enough experience: anger in pregnancy. From the flood of emotions that takes over to the deeper issues at the core, listen in to learn more.

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Struggling with sleep transitions? 💤 In our latest episode, sleep expert Unnati Patel shares game-changing tips for moving your little one from a crib to a toddler bed, breaking tricky sleep associations, handling nightmares, early wakeups, and sibling sleep dynamics.  Tune in and get ready to equip you and yourself for more rest!

*Have a younger child? Check out our previous episodes with Unnati!

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Nested To Rested Sleep Consulting | Baby Sleep and Toddler Sleep Expert

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In today’s episode, we get to pull back the curtains into what is going in the mind of a therapist, and how they implement what they teach in their daily lives. From how they get themselves out of fight or flight to mentally resetting, tune in to hear more.

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Leah Ruppanner is a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab at the University of Melbourne. She was previously a Director of The Policy Lab at the University of Melbourne.

Her research investigates gender and its intersection to inequalities, technologies and policies. Professor Ruppanner is a leading expert on COVID-19 and its impact on gender inequality in US and Australia. Her book, Motherlands: How States Push Mothers out of Employment (2020) provides a typology of childcare and gender policies and their relationship to mothers' employment varies across US states. This has led to a range of high impact publications showing women have divergent experiences based on their state of residence. Finally, she is leading a project on gender bias in hiring algorithms to understand how gender bias limits women's access to employment.

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In this week’s episode Sarah and Whitney discuss why we may be attempting to use control in our lives and those around us. From fear of failure, embarrassment, what our value or worth has been tied to, control needs can affect everyone.  For our type A or enneagram 1’s out there warning this episode may ruffle your feathers a bit. 

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Sarah is back with holistic natural foods chef and herbalist Abbie Gross to talk about what is obtainable and accessible foods that moms should be eating in postpartum and motherhood and how to incorporate that into our children’s lives. Eating to fuel our bodies shouldn’t be complicated tune it to hear how.

Abbie Gross, a holistic natural foods chef, herbalist and Postpartum Doula has been cooking professionally for over 12 years, Abbie enjoys being able to help clients achieve their specific health goals through the preparation of nutritious meals, which express her whole food philosophy.

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When trying to get pregnant and being pregnant you hear a lot of “don’ts” when it comes to what you should eat but what about what you should be? In this episode Sarah interviews Abbie Gross trained holistic natural foods chef, herbalist, and Postpartum Doula to discuss just this.

Abbie Gross, a holistic natural foods chef, herbalist and Postpartum Doula has been cooking professionally for over 12 years, Abbie enjoys being able to help clients achieve their specific health goals through the preparation of nutritious meals, which express her whole food philosophy.

About | Illustrious Herbal

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