Do you find yourself overwhelmed, stressed out, or anxious as a busy mom? Today, Amber Trueblood licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), best-selling author, speaker, and mother of four sons, joins us to talk through the five anxiety styles of moms. We talk about the superpowers you have based on these styles and what can also get in your way.

Today we discuss…

• How Amber defines overwhelm in her book
• Your massive to-do list and how it impacts your personal level of overwhelm
• How to align the way you spend your time and energy
• Where can your anxiety style serve you and where can it get in your way
• Creating time for things that fill you up energetically
• Becoming more resilient to stresses in your life
• Lover, Fighter, Executive, Visionary, and Dynamo anxiety styles
• Your supermom traits based on your anxiety style
• Finding self-worth based on how you feel about yourself instead of how others see you
• How your anxiety style and your partner’s anxiety style can interact 
• Daily, weekly, and even in-the-moment strategies to reduce overwhelm

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Do you find yourself setting personal boundaries and then allowing them to be overstepped? Perhaps you are not setting boundaries at all? Today, Amy Galvin and Parita Kuttappan of the Momsanity Podcast join us to talk about how to define your boundaries and, most importantly, how to maintain them to allow joy and energy to flow.

Today we discuss…

• How we can define personal boundaries as working moms
• Doing things differently than the way you were raised
• Growing up in houses where women are taught to serve only and not communicate what they need
• Defining personal boundaries to avoid overwhelm and resentfulness
• Asking yourself what is important for you and your family
• Trusting your intuition and gut feelings
• Setting your own personal boundaries
• Assessing your energy levels around activities in your life
• Understanding that boundaries are in our control to both set and maintain
• Deciding how you are going to show up and communicate
• Boundaries and clarity can be kind and respectful

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Reduce stress and improve focus using food? Especially if it is delicious food? Yes, please! Our guest today is Joanna Wen, weight loss coach who helps busy moms lose weight permanently in a healthy and sustainable way while helping them improve their stress and energy levels.


Today we discuss…

• How to use food to heal your body while losing weight at the same time
• Food impact you your skin and health metrics like blood pressure
• Things that can get in the way of our health goals, even those as simple as cleaning the juicer or blender
• How we can often feel deprived when we are trying to diet and lose weight
• Herbs and spices that can help food taste delicious and give you energy at the same time–without feeling deprived
• Foods that can reduce stress and increase focus
• Health benefits of cinnamon and peppermint
• Mixing bitter and sweet food to reduce sugar cravings
• Changing your thoughts about food and the stories that surround the foods you choose
• Cravings and the real messaging from your brain

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Do your know your Enneagram? The Enneagram is widely used to understand more about your personality based on one of 9 types. Today, our guest Sarah Wallace is taking us on a journey on how the Enneagram looks through the lens of being a Supermom. And you are going to LOVE this!

Sarah Wallace is a Certified Enneagram Coach, host of the Enneagram MBA podcast, and workshop facilitator who helps small business owners and corporations use the Enneagram to develop confident, empathetic, and emotionally intelligent leaders with powerful, productive, and happy teams.

Today we discuss…

• What exactly is the Enneagram Type test
• The 9 Enneagram types and how they reflect how you show up as a supermom
• Your personality superpowers as a supermom
• How I connect to the superpowers as an Enneagram 3
• Learning about your personality to understand your own strengths as well as those of others
• Learning your blindspots in order to empower yourself

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Do you wish you could just get rid of your anxiety and anger? Our guest today is Renée Mill, senior clinical psychologist, author, and corporate speaker who is passionate about helping people overcome anxiety and stress. 

With over 20 years of experience, she has become a leading expert in the field of mental health and emotional intelligence. Renée is the author of three best-selling books, including Anxiety Free, Drug Free, Parenting Without Anger, and No Sweat Parenting. Her work has been featured on various media outlets, including the Today Show, Sunrise, and The Morning Show.

Today we discuss…

• Thoughts that can cause you to become angry as a parent
• Believing that we must be perfect as a mom
• When anger and anxiety prevent you from attaching to and connecting with your children
• The myth of “quality time”
• Being a supermom is about attachment with your child
• How neural networks are built for building relationships
• The idea of a family mission statement
• Children will naturally push against boundaries, but it doesn’t mean they are wrong
• Thinking about your time and energy budget similarly to a financial 
• Cognitive reframing for emotional dysregulation
• The importance of practice and repetition when working to change your thoughts

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Do you struggle with perfectionism feeling like you are never enough or what you are doing, producing, presenting, being is never enough? Have you ever asked yourself where these feelings might have started? Have you ever wondered how to overcome perfectionism for good? Our guest, Tashina King, shares why feelings of perfectionism are super common for ambitious women and how to change these thoughts for good.

Today we discuss…

• Why perfectionism is really common for ambitious moms
• Family dynamics that may praise success and perpetuate the need to be perfect
• False beliefs about what other people are doing and capable of based on social media
• Tying what you produce to the person you are in life
• Questions to ask yourself when you find yourself trying to go non-stop
• Identifying limiting beliefs that may be holding you back and operating subconsciously
• How to overcome perfectionism by understanding your thoughts behind feeling like “enough”
• Changing your internal programming for the drastic changes you want in your life
• Writing down things you hear in your head so you can start to see patterns
• Understanding that your thoughts are not your fault, but they are your responsibility to change if you want to feel differently

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Do you have a co-partner or partner with whom you communicate well? Or do you feel like your communication is a struggle, maybe even toxic? Our episode guest, Mikki Gardner, is a Certified Life + Conscious Parenting Coach, the host of Co-Parenting With Confidence Podcast, and a mom of 3 (her son and 2 bonus sons)! 

Today we discuss…

• The cycle of toxic communication
• The hazards of text communication
• Communication with a co-partner through hurt
• Withholding, manipulating truth, and showing up outside your values
• How you communicate and repair inside healthy conflict
• Understanding your personal triggers
• Learning to calm yourself in the moment and stop the reaction
• The 4-step formula to break the cycle of toxic communication

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Living in a wine-mom world, do you ever get sober curious? We can get wrapped into a cycle of drinking to unwind, having more than we would like–or than our body would like–and feeling shame around it. Our guest today is Emma Kinsey. Emma gave up alcohol over 8 years ago and it was like a boost button in a video game, speeding her life up in the best ways. Now, she's a cheerleader for living without alcohol. 

In this episode we discuss…

• The impact of the wine mom culture
• How you might be using alcohol as a coping mechanism and not recognizing your real needs
• Emma’s story of binge drinking
• The shame spiral that can happen when you are trying to moderate drinking
• The “pink cloud” during short periods of alcohol elimination
• How alcohol might feel like it is solving a problem for you
• Superpowers you might gain by eliminating alcohol for a period of time
• Stability in physical and mental energy when alcohol does not impact your body
• Facing problems head-on when they are not masked
• Developing the ability to deal with emotions
• How to get started if you are sober curious, even just a little
• Asking yourself, “If I didn’t need a drink, what would I need right now?”
• How to try a 66-day challenge

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Are you exhausted? Our guest Kathy Fronheiser joins us to share why eating like a grown-up and lifting heavy $hit can help you feel less tired, more like a bada$$, and impact your entire life for the better.

In this episode we discuss…

• How Kathy got into health coaching over 20 years ago and never left
• Why health coaching is often actually time management coaching
• How she guides women in the right direction when it comes to their health
• Figuring out your overarching goals and then breaking them down into the tiniest steps
• The common reaction of shame when trying to make a health change
• Why we tend to keep our health goals a secret
• Eating like a grown-up instead of from the kid’s menu
• Asking yourself if you are getting enough food
• Why extra muscle is for more than just “looking toned”
• How lifting heavy $hit can build confidence
• Protecting your health and strength as you age to stay independent
• Why you don’t need a gym for a fitness habit
• How eating and moving well actually makes everything else easier
• What you should do to feel like a bada$$

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If you want to know how to stop feeling overwhelmed all of the time, this episode is for you! Special guest Mia Moran, host of the Plan Simple Podcast, shares all things work-life balance, why we feel overwhelmed, and how to feel good in the life you are living.

In this episode we discuss…

• How work-life balance actually IS possible
• Why all time doesn’t “weigh” the same
• The connection between how you feel about who you are and what you are doing
• The concept that overwhelm does not equal a certain number of tasks on a to-do list
• What stories we tell ourselves about tasks
• The absence of role models who do what you do because women have never done this much in all areas of their lives
• Questioning what you want to be doing vs. what you are “supposed” to be doing
• Asking, “What do you really want?”
• Holding so tight to beliefs that might not be true
• How food and wellness is connected to work-life balance
• Using family dinner to connect and nurture your children

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