Redefining Us

Sairan Aqrawi is an engineer and business strategist, reframing midlife crisis to midlife PRICELESS! She believes that turning 40 or 50 (or really any age!) marks the ideal time to reinvent oneself, rediscover passions, and take bold steps two enjoying life. And it all happens by overcoming self-doubt, embracing change, and taking action, because confidence is built by doing, not just thinking about doing.

Sairan also talks about common struggles among successful women who feel “stuck” despite achieving career milestones, or raising a family. She's giving us some strategies for breaking free from routine, handling rejection with resilience, and transforming hidden talents into fulfilling side businesses. No matter what age you are, if you’ve ever felt like you’re just going through the motions, this episode is a must-listen. You'll feel motivated to take charge of your future, start something new, and redefine what’s possible at any stage of your life.

Want to connect with Sairan? She’s offering a complimentary one-hour consultation for Redefining Us listeners! Mention this episode when reaching out:
LinkedIn: Sairan Aqrawi
Instagram: @sairan_aqrawi

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I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

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Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
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What if your struggles with food have nothing to do with food itself? In this episode of Redefining Us, Ashlyn Burnett, a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, shares the powerful connection between the nervous system and our relationship with food.

Ashlyn shares how polyvagal theory explains the different states of the nervous system and how these states influence eating behaviors. From the fight-or-flight urge to restrict or obsess over food to the shutdown response that leads to binge eating and disconnection, she breaks down why so many women feel trapped in cycles of control, guilt, and emotional eating.

There is a way out though. Through nervous system regulation, inner healing, and somatic work, Ashlyn teaches how to find freedom from food where eating becomes intuitive, nourishing, and no longer a source of anxiety or shame.

Connect with Ashlyn:
Podcast: Heart Led Wellness
Free Root Cause Quiz: http://heartledwellness.com/quiz
Instagram: @heartledwellness
12-Week Coaching Program: https://www.heartledwellness.com/hle

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I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

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Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
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Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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Caitlin Morris, an Overcoming Overwhelm Coach and mother of three, shares her raw and honest journey of navigating motherhood, grief, and the pressure to “do it all.” Caitlin helps moms redefine overwhelm and discover rest and self-care in ways that work for them.

What You’ll Hear:

• Caitlin’s transition from fitness professional to redefining self-care as a mom of three
• The "ReRooted" framework: a simple, cyclical approach to growth and rest
• Balancing new life with loss and how grief shapes motherhood
• Why micro-moments of rest matter and how to release the guilt of prioritizing yourself

Motherhood isn’t about perfection, it’s about evolving through every phase. If you’re feeling stretched too thin, listen to this one. 

Connect with Caitlin Morris:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_withcaitlin/
Website: https://www.coachingwithcaitlin.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlin-morris-pcc-a-cfhc-10458520b/

Don’t forget to subscribe to Caitlin’s newsletter and book a free “Possibility Call” if you’re ready to break free from overwhelm to find the time and energy you need for the things that matter most.

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Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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What does embracing pleasure look like as a woman whether your a woman without kids, a mom, a woman in menopause, a grandmother, etc? In this conversation with Dr. Rosalyn Dischiavo, founder of the Institute for Sexuality Education and Enlightenment and author of The Deep Yes: The Lost Art of True Receiving, she shares her personal and professional journey into sex education and therapy, exploring the profound intersections of sexual health, mental well-being, and personal identity. She dives into her story of overcoming infertility, pursuing a doctoral degree, and the importance of integrating pleasure and desire into our holistic health practices.

Rosalyn reflects on how societal messages, like the Madonna-whore complex and hustle culture, inhibit our ability to truly experience life’s joys like enjoying a sunset or embracing intimacy. She wants us to rethink our relationship with pleasure and provides actionable insights for cultivating deeper connections with themselves and our partners.

This is a conversation that goes beyond sex. It’s about reclaiming wholeness, honoring our bodies, and redefining how we show up in the world.

Connect with Dr. Roz:
http://instituteforsexuality.com

IG: @HolisticSexEd https://www.instagram.com/holisticsexed/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/InstituteforSEE

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Yes-Lost-True-Receiving-ebook/dp/B01COCGE74/ref=monarch_sidesheet_image

Please leave us a review or rating! These help get the show out to more women like you wanting to have these conversations.

Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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We are talking about the deeply emotional and often taboo topic of money, especially as it relates to parenting.

Guest, Khara Croswaite Brindle shares her journey into the field of financial therapy and sheds light on the unique challenges parents face. Like psychological weight of financial fears and the practical considerations of budgeting for the costs of raising children. 

Money is never just about dollars and cents. What us mother’s know is that money is also about exhaustion, comfort, and survival. Financial therapist, Khara Croswaite Brindle reminds us that compassion is essential when reflecting on our financial decisions.

What need was left unmet? What led you here? Instead of judgment, try curiosity. Instead of shame, try understanding.

You're human. It’s not the mistakes that define you, it’s how you move forward.

We talk about:

1. The Emotional Weight of Money: How inherited beliefs and personal fears shape our financial decisions.
2. The Real Costs of Parenthood: From childbirth expenses to everyday spending habits, Brindle breaks down how to adapt budgets for family life.
3. Predatory Marketing and Parental Guilt: Insight into how marketers target parents’ pain points and practical strategies to navigate these pressures.
4. Curiosity and Compassion in Financial Healing: Why approaching money conversations with understanding instead of judgment is essential.
5. Generosity and Stability: Balancing financial generosity with the need to maintain personal financial security.

About Khara:
Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT is passionate about giving people aha moments that create goosebumps and catalyze powerful action. She is a TEDx Speaker, licensed mental health therapist, and financial therapist in Colorado. Khara enjoys various roles as a serial entrepreneur, author, professional speaker, professor, and consultant. Khara specializes in helping therapists and financial therapists turn pain points into possibilities through consultation, courses, and supervision. She is originally from the Pacific Northwest and gets her best ideas walking outside and being around water. When Khara’s not writing her next book or supporting fellow professional helpers on their own self-discovery journeys, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, reading, and indulging in gluttonous, gluten-free desserts with her family. 

Connect with Khara:
https://croswaitecounselingpllc.com/financial-therapy

Please leave us a review or rating! These help get the show out to more women like you wanting to have these conversations.

Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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In this episode of Redefining Us, host Stephanie Konter-O'Hara gets candid about embracing imperfections, navigating motherhood’s transitions, and fostering vulnerability. She introduces one of the many exercises around practicing vulnerability that she includes in her therapeutic group that she hosts for moms (see details on joining below).

It doesn't matter if you’re a first-time mom or welcoming your fourth child, Stephanie shares insights to help you embrace every stage of your journey with authenticity and connection and how to no feel so alone in the exhaustion of it all.

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Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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Abuse can look many different ways, both overt and not. Our guest, Sybil Cummin, MA, LPC, ACS, shares her evolution working as a play therapist with children in contentious divorces to uncovering the often-overlooked dynamics of abuse dismissed by the systems at play. Our conversation lays bare the realities of narcissistic abuse, domestic violence, and the systemic gaps within family courts.

Sybil highlights the critical role of community, connection, and safety planning in the journey toward healing for anyone who's endured any amount of harm. We talk about how abuse can look many different ways and break the stereotypes that are most often portrayed. We delve into the struggles survivors endure—recognizing coercive control, overcoming post-separation abuse, and reclaiming a sense of self.  

If you know someone who's suffering from abuse, or that's you yourself, or if you're a professional who stands survivors, this episode offers clarity, practical guidance, and a steadfast reminder: recovery is possible, and no one walks this path alone.

Connect with Sybil:
https://www.risingbeyondpc.com
https://instagram.com/risingbeyondpc
https://www.risingbeyondpc.com/podcasts

About Sybil: Sybil is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has specialized in working with victims and survivors of narcissistic abuse and domestic violence for the last decade, including the child victims in these families. She owns a small group therapy practice in Colorado and after witnessing the constant ethical issues survivors experience in the family court system trying to protect their children she created Rising Beyond Power and Control (often referred to as The Rising Beyond Community)  to help close the gaps in support for this population.  Sybil hosts The Rising Beyond Podcast and is active in legislative changes in Colorado for family court reform.

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Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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What if finding the right support during postpartum could change everything? In this episode, we dive into the challenges many new moms face, from physical recovery to emotional well-being, and how a lack of accessible resources often leaves them feeling isolated. Together, we explore ways to prioritize maternal mental health and navigate this pivotal time with the care every mother deserves. 

Creinthea (Cre) Chritz, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and master's-prepared educator, shares about her journey into mental health care, her work with mothers and women across life stages, and how her personal experiences shaped her professional path.

Cre shares her transition from teaching to nursing and her passion for addressing the unique mental health needs of women. She opens up about her own challenges with gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, and postpartum anxiety, which inspired her to found Coherent Care Women's and Maternal Wellness. Her practice, based in Denver, Colorado, also serves women in Florida and Iowa, with plans to expand further.

Connect with Cre: www.coherentcare.org
Instagram and Youtube is @coherent_care

Referenced links: 
Coherent Care Women's and Maternal Wellness
Postpartum Support International (Charleston Chapter)
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale

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Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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In this episode of the Redefining Us Podcast, we welcome Heidi Lindeman, a licensed counselor, IFS therapist, and parent coach. Together, we dive into the worlds of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Human Design, exploring how these tools can help individuals, especially mothers, reconnect with their authentic selves.

Heidi explains how IFS is transformative for both parents and children, allowing us to honor every part of ourselves and interact with our kids from a place of grounded wholeness. And she describes how Human Design has impacted her own life and parenting journey, particularly in understanding and supporting her children as unique individuals.

Key Topics Discussed:

• Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Applying IFS in Parenting
• Introduction to Human Design
• Aligning with Our Authentic Selves

Where to find Heidi Lindeman:
https://selfgroundedtherapy.org

https://www.youtube.com/@heidilindeman9602

About Heidi - Heidi Lindeman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a deep-rooted spiritual background, she is dedicated to helping moms who feel overwhelmed, isolated, and burnt out. She believes in nurturing both your soul and your human experience, creating a harmonious balance that allows you and your children to thrive. Heidi is the creator and owner of Self Grounded Therapy, LLC. At Self Grounded Therapy, we offer counseling for mothers who have a deep spiritual connection to the universe and are seeking to deepen their bond with their children through meaningful and transformative practices. We understand that as a spiritual being having a human experience, your journey is about more than just managing day-to-day stress—it’s about fostering a deeper connection with yourself and your children. Heidi uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Human Design to help parents live an authentic life and parent in an aligned manner.

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I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

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In this episode, we dive deep into the complex relationship women have with their bodies, drawing from my personal experiences and the stories of clients I've worked with. From navigating the changes that come with pregnancy and postpartum to exploring the impact of body image on self-esteem and eating behaviors, we break down how these struggles shape our relationships with ourselves and others.

We'll also distinguish between disordered eating and diagnosable eating disorders, unpacking the emotional distress they cause and offering practical strategies, like DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), to help shift the focus from body fixation to emotional and behavioral awareness.

Whether you’ve experienced body dysmorphia, disordered eating, or are simply navigating the inevitable changes of a transitioning body, this episode will provide insights and support for embracing transformation, surrendering to the journey, and building a healthier relationship with your body.

Remember—you don’t have to do this alone. Let’s support one another through every stage of our body's evolution. 

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Would you like to chat more about this episode's topic? I would love to continue our conversation over on Instagram! @wellmindedcounseling

I wrote a book! Becoming Mommy: Aligning with yourself and finding your voice during pregnancy and motherhood, available at all major retailers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZT9P3RB?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_KFT90ZBDS48FDGG6DH5X&bestFormat=true

Where to find more from Redefining Us:
Website: wellmindedcounseling.com/redefining-us-pod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wellmindedcounseling
Instagram: @wellmindedcounseling

If you want to support the show so we can continue sharing this content with others like you, you may do so here at, Buy Me A Coffee. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!