The Merry Messy Moms Show

This is a tough subject because it's a lot easier for us wives to sit around with our girlfriends and complain about the things we don't like about our husbands. But let's be honest, we can be known for our nagging. And it really dampens the romance, the friendship and the fun when we nag. So why do we do it and how can we stop?

Links In This Episode:

• Carol Tuttle's FREE personality program - Dressing Your Truth
• It's Just My Nature by Carol Tuttle
• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Carol Tuttle's Healing Center
• Check out my new album Mindful Mamas – Affirmations and Meditations for Moms and Kids!
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
• Join in the fun & conversation in The Merry Messy Moms Show Facebook group

In this episode you will learn how to lose weight in a healthy way. You'll learn about intermittent fasting and its health and weight loss benefits; how stress and stressful, negative thoughts raise our cortisol and contribute to weight gain and how important sleep is for our health and weight. You'll also learn what it means to have a healthy relationship with food and to be able to enjoy eating and social gatherings and still maintain a healthy weight.

• Allison's website - http://arhealthcoaching.com
• Grab a free resource to help you get started eating healthy at arhealthcoaching.com/cravings
• Check out my new album Mindful Mamas - Affirmations and Meditations for Moms and Kids!
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
• Join in the fun & conversation in The Merry Messy Moms Show Facebook group

Affirmations and guided meditations have been a huge part of my healing journey the past few years so I was inspired to make my own specifically designed for moms and kids! In this episode, I share how affirmations have helped to transform my mind and heart to be a much more confident, positive, and happy mom and woman. You can listen to my album daily as you're getting ready in the morning, driving, washing dishes, cooking dinner and even going to sleep to help you relax, connect to your spirit and raise your confidence. And it's only $4.99 from now through April 19!

• Learn more about the album here!
• Go directly to purchase the album here!
• Click Here to download a FREE ebook with affirmations for moms and kids & learn why they are powerful for upgrading your life
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
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Self-criticism is a form of bullying ourselves and it actually doesn't serve to motivate us to do and be better. It instead erodes our self confidence and peace. Add in some mom guilt and we've got a good serving of toxic thoughts that sabotage our success as moms, wives, and in other ares of our lives. So how do we stop it? With a simple mantra and mindset shift that I share in this episode, I believe you can start to replace those negative thoughts today to believe the truth of who you are!

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Patience is one of the biggest things we can struggle with as parents. We want to be the parents we are in our hearts - loving, patient, and supportive. But when our children are on an emotional roller coaster, we can begin to parent out of fear instead of from our intuition and with love and then feel guilty and like a failure later on. In this episode, a parenting coach gives us practical tips to help keep us calm during meltdowns, tantrums and emotionally stressful times with our kids.

Links in This Episode:

• Transforming Toddlerhood
• Hire Devon as your Parenting Coach!
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
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Parents, you are going to LOVE this interview with parenting coach, Devon Kuntzman! She gives us helpful insight into the brain development of toddlers and young children to know they aren't trying to push our buttons, and how much they need our love and support for their rapidly developing brains and bodies. We explore obedience and how we can unwisely wrap our self worth and success as parents up in whether or not our kids obey. It was such an amazing interview that we talked for more than an hour, so it's split into two parts.

• Transforming Toddlerhood
• Hire Devon as your Parenting Coach
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
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I've always felt like goal setting for moms is much different than for everyone else. We have to account for our kids and often have to alter our plans to accommodate them. So here's how I set and keep my goals as a real mom and even stop myself from self sabotage.

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Valerie is one of the most intentional, thoughtful mothers I know! I am so inspired by how she and her husband run their household and parent their children. Here's what you'll learn in this episode:

• How to simplify things in your home by giving your children more chores and hiring out help for the chores you dislike
• The power of gratitude and how to create your own practice
• How to learn the art of saying "no" so you can allow space for what you do love to come into your life
• How to more clearly communicate with your husband so as to have your expectations met

(This is part two of a two part interview! See part 1 here.)

Valerie is both an accomplished entrepreneur and an intentional and inspiring mother. Before having children, she was a computer programmer but always a kid at heart! She and her husband would play games and even create claymation videos after work for fun! They carried that fun over into their family life and into her blog, Inner Child Fun. I learned so many good tips from her in this interview - like how to foster job skills in children from a young age and teach responsibility in a fun way. How to organize your home as a working mom, and how she started her blog.

• Inner Child Fun
• Inner Child Fun on Facebook
• Inner Child Fun on Pinterest
• Inner Child Fun on Twitter
• Inner Child Fun on Instagram
• Inner Child Fun on YouTube
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I declutter regularly and don't feel sentimental to objects in my house, for the most part, so when Marie Kondo's book came out in 2014, I wasn't all that interested. But once her TV show came out on Netflix this January, I decided to watch it and see what the excitement was all about. I was hooked on her methods from the first show and after watching three of them, got inspired to declutter all of my clothes and my kitchen. It truly was more than just getting rid of stuff - it was a personals, spiritual experience to learn a new, balanced way of living.

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• Spark Joy - an Illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying upby Marie Kondo
• Carol Tuttle's Dressing Your Truth FREE Course
• See all of the episodes from The Merry Messy Moms Show here
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