The Modern Matriarch

Motherhood can be the moment you realize your “I can handle anything” identity was built on invisible overtime. 

In this episode, I talk with therapist and business owner Alyssa Desroches, a neurodivergent mom who supports ADHD and autistic adults, especially high-performing women navigating burnout, identity shifts, and the constant demands of parenting.

Alyssa shares what it was like becoming a mom during the COVID era, how anxiety and overwhelm can spike when sleep disappears, and why so many capable women discover ADHD only after motherhood stretches every coping system to its limit. 

We dig into the difference between capability and capacity, the hidden work of masking with rigid systems, and what changes when you start naming your needs instead of judging them.

We also get practical about EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and nervous system regulation. We talk sensitive nervous systems, how capacity can change day to day, what realistic EMDR timelines look like for single-incident trauma versus complex trauma, and the early stage burnout “superhero mode” that can sneak up on high achievers.

If you’ve been searching for ADHD burnout help, EMDR for complex trauma, or strategies for neurodivergent moms, this conversation offers language you can use and options you can explore. 

Learn more about Alyssa's work here: https://seedoftruthcounseling.com/

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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend, Hallie Mancini to talk sisterhood, new motherhood, postpartum, the protective instincts that flare at family parties, and how intrusive thoughts after birth can be terrifying, and are far more common than most moms feel safe admitting. 

We also zoom out to the relationships that change alongside the baby. Female friendships often get quieter in early motherhood, not because the love disappears, but because energy, time, and bandwidth do. 

We talk about what support actually looks like when you’re touched-out and running on broken sleep, why handing your baby to a trusted friend can feel like oxygen, and how boundaries around “passing the baby” can be both necessary and emotional. 

If you’ve ever felt guilty for taking days to reply or unsure how to ask for help, you’ll feel seen here.

Hallie brings her perspective as a doula and new mom, including why postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression are underreported, how stigma shapes what parents share on screening surveys, and what a better system could look like. 

She also shares details about Postpartum Together, a Connecticut postpartum support group designed to create real community for moms and babies, with space for honest conversation and practical support.

If this resonates, share it with a mom who needs less shame and more support.

You can connect with Hallie here: https://www.instagram.com/_hallie.elizabeth/

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You can have a great title, a strong salary, and even “flexibility” on paper and still feel like your life isn’t yours. 

This is the tension I unpack with Alana D’Angelica, a finance pro and former tech executive who now coaches women on building wealth that translates into real choices at home and at work.

We start with Alana’s career path from Morgan Stanley to high-growth tech, then into motherhood and the moments that made her question the tradeoffs. 

She shares what changed when she finally had more control of her time, why a layoff can become a launchpad if you’ve built a financial runway, and how she now helps ambitious women get clear on what they actually want their days to look like.

From there we get practical. We talk about why women often over-save, how inflation chips away at cash, and what investing in the broad US stock market can do for long-term financial freedom. 

We also dig into emergency funds with a smarter lens than one-size-fits-all rules of thumb, plus the unsexy money moves that matter: capturing your 401(k) match, understanding performance and raise cycles, reviewing benefits, and making intentional health insurance choices including HSAs and high deductible plans.

If you’re a working mom who wants less hustle and more optionality, this is the episode for you.

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You can be “high functioning” and still feel like you’re carrying something heavy everywhere you go. 

I sit down with Amy Arruda, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, to talk about what it looks like to stop managing symptoms and start healing what’s underneath. 

The thread running through everything is the nervous system: how stress, emotional patterns, and old memories can get stored in the body, then show up later as reactivity, shutdown, perfectionism, or chronic overwhelm.

Amy breaks down EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in a way that actually makes sense, including how charged memories can link to beliefs like “I’m not good enough” or “I have to be perfect.” 

We widen the lens into holistic mental health and lifestyle: clean inputs, what “nutrition” really includes (yes, scrolling counts), and simple grounding tools you can use in the middle of a chaotic day. 

Amy also shares why dance has been a powerful form of embodiment and emotional release, plus the mindset shift that makes change possible: the best parts of life often sit on the other side of fear.

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Hustle can look like confidence while your nervous system is quietly screaming. 

I’m sharing my story with the parts I usually only say in rooms where I feel deeply held: being raised by a single mom who worked nonstop, being the sensitive kid who learned to stay “tough,” and carrying adoption and abandonment wounds that shaped how I chased safety through achievement.

If you’ve ever felt like you can’t rest because everything will fall apart, you’ll recognize yourself here.

I talk about why the “self-made” myth can be a trauma response, how millennial “cry it out” culture impacts attachment and regulation, and why becoming a mother in 2022 cracked me open in ways no productivity system ever could. 

Along the way I share about trauma-informed somatic breathwork, receiving without guilt, and setting boundaries without burning bridges. 

This is the heart of my work... you can’t build a life of receiving from a foundation of survival, and you don’t have to hustle to be worthy.

Thank you for tuning into this deeply meaningful and vulnerable episode with me.

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Burnout can look like a motivation problem, but what if it’s actually a rhythm problem? 

I sit down with Gigi Hunt, a cycle and flow mentor and registered nurse, to talk about the real connection between the nervous system, hormones, and the menstrual cycle and why so many women feel stuck in overwhelm when they try to live like their energy should be the same every day. 

Gigi shares her honest journey through motherhood, postpartum anxiety, and the moment she realized that what started as a weight loss goal was really a call to come back home to her body. From breathwork and meditation to deeper cycle awareness, she explains how self-trust is built through small, repeatable choices instead of willpower and hustle. 

We break down cycle syncing using a seasonal framework: inner winter (menstrual), inner spring (follicular), inner summer (ovulation), and inner fall (luteal). You’ll learn what tends to shift in mood, energy, and focus across each phase, how ignoring low-energy cues can fuel dysregulation, and how rest becomes a strategy, not a setback. 

If you’ve wondered whether you’re “hormonal,” “lazy,” or even “perimenopausal,” we offer a different lens: hormones are messengers and the nervous system is the conductor, so chronic stress and poor recovery can mimic bigger problems.

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The biggest money lie most of us inherit sounds noble on the surface: work harder, sacrifice more, and wealth will arrive as a reward. 

But if that were true, the most burnt out women would be the most prosperous. 

Today we pull that story apart and replace it with something more honest and more useful: real wealth requires the ability to receive, and receiving starts with safety in your body.

I connect the dots between hustle culture, scarcity mindset, and nervous system regulation. 

I also talk about alignment as a wealth strategy: lining up your values, your actions, and your nervous system’s sense of safety. 

Allowing isn’t passive and manifestation isn’t sitting around hoping. 

It’s an active practice of removing resistance, resting without guilt, saying yes to what feels expansive, and saying no to what drains you. From pricing your work to protecting your energy, I share how working with your body can create momentum that grinding never does.

If this lands and you’re ready to shift from fear to flow, join me for Rewiring Wealth and start building new generational patterns of prosperity.

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Money tracking gets a bad reputation for a reason: most of us learned it as restriction, guilt, and endless self-correction. 

When your nervous system links money to safety, a simple glance at your bank account can feel like danger, and that’s when avoidance, overspending, or shutting down starts to make sense. 

In this episode, I talk about why shame-based budgeting keeps you in survival mode and why you cannot build generational wealth from burnout. 

Think of it like a body scan for your finances: you notice what’s there without judgment, which lowers the threat level and helps you move from fight, flight, freeze, or fawn into a steadier place where clear decisions are possible.

You’ll learn a simple three-part money tracking system focused on flow: what you’re receiving (income sources and totals), what you’re spending (or recycling back into the world), and the difference between the two. 

We also explore value-based spending questions, how to sit with discomfort when numbers bring up emotion, and how that practice can expand your capacity to hold more money over time.

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If money triggers tightness in your chest, a constant urge to hustle, guilt when you spend, or a weird fog when you try to budget, that’s not a willpower issue, it’s a nervous system pattern. 

I’m getting honest about the inherited money stories many of us carry, especially women who grew up around instability, scarcity, or stress. We learned that money is dangerous, rest is risky, and safety only comes from pushing harder, even when our lives look “successful” on paper.

I talk through how this survival wiring shows up as self-sabotage: impulsive spending for instant relief, endless Amazon and Instagram purchases, workaholism, or the opposite pattern of aggressively saving and still never feeling secure. 

Then, I zoom out to the real work of sustainable wealth building: combining practical money strategy with identity work and somatic healing. 

Yes, “spend less than you make” matters, but if your body doesn’t believe receiving is safe, no spreadsheet will change your relationship with money for long.

To make it real, I guide a simple, powerful somatic exercise you can repeat daily: identify one limiting money belief, find where it lives in your body, breathe safety into the sensation, and reframe the belief into an affirmation that actually lands in your system. 

If you want to go deeper, I invite you to my live 90-minute experience, Rewiring Wealth, where we connect practical personal finance, nervous system regulation, and a new way of holding abundance with grace.

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Money can bring up shame fast, but what if the problem isn’t money, it’s the story your body learned about it? 

We open with a reframe that cuts through the guilt: money is neutral. 

When it moves through grounded, healed people, it doesn’t corrupt them, it amplifies them. That single shift changes how we think about income, integrity, and the kind of impact we can actually sustain. 

I share how a childhood shaped by trauma, addiction, and instability can wire a scarcity mindset straight into the nervous system. 

Even when we do “everything right” on paper, budgeting, paying off debt, saving aggressively, we can still feel unsafe receiving. 

We talk through the difference between financial discipline and fear-based control, plus what it looked like to pay off over $100K in debt, buy a first home, build significant emergency savings, and begin learning investing while still having to heal the deeper wound underneath the numbers. 

Then, we connect embodied wealth to practical change: rewiring the nervous system so money no longer triggers anxiety, hustle, or self-sabotage.

If you’ve ever felt stuck between doing good and doing well, this conversation gives you a new way forward with personal finance, wealth, and nervous system support working together. 

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