To (Mom) Life

It is important to find ways to be conscious of how your body functions and be aware of how your body should feel so that you can know when your body is off-kilter.  Whether you are looking to lose weight, get in shape, or just hoping to gauge your body,  you should be able to begin the new year feeling good and develop healthy habits that set you up for success! In today's episode, Dalia Brunschwig explains how to understand what your body is telling you and its implications (for the better).

Dalia, a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, is the founder of FULLY IN BALANCE GmbH. Born in Israel, lived in Spain, UK, Israel, she now lives in Zurich, Switzerland with her husband and 3 children. As a busy mum, she provides insight into natural healthy weight loss and wellbeing by listening to the body’s signals, via one-on-one private sessions or coaching, always factoring in that no one size fits all and taking into account the kosher diet and our Jewish beautiful occasions. After helping over 200 Jewish women in the last couple of years, she continues her mission to empower women that living a healthy lifestyle can be exciting and easy with the right mindset.

Episode Glossary:
Hashem: The Hebrew word for G-d
Baruch HaShem: means Thank G-d
Kosher: Laws that make up Jewish Dietary regulations
Rav: A Rabbi
Shabbat: The seventh day of every week in which Jews rest and take time to return to their spiritual source
Chagim: The Jewish Holidays 

Show Notes:
3:40: Introducing Dalia Brunschwig
“I help Jewish women dieting, losing weight and maintaining it by listening to their bodies and having healthy lifestyles”
5:20 What Inspired Dalia to enter this line of work
“The women here in Zurich saw the change, friends, and family, and they asked me for help. So it was when I started helping them”
7:15  Dalia’s personal story
“It’s not like in The States and in Israel. That is when I started developing my own protocol, my own program, whatever suited me”
10:50: Listening to your body
“So listening to your body means to pay attention to the signals your body is transmitting to you and try to identify sensitivities for good or for bad”
12:40: Taking Care of Your Body
“We have this machine that works wonders, and we as women, as mothers can be seen beyond the miracles because we have a cycle that works, in most cases. We can bring life to this earth and that is amazing”
13:45: How to Be More in Touch with your Body's Signals
“My approach is really to include all types of food but to remove the triggers which are dairy, gluten, processed food, obviously and sugars, are big ones, and when you introduce them into your habit again, how do you feel about it”
21:50: Thinking positively about our bodies
“If you want to do something, do something, for your wellbeing. Listen to your body.”

Connect with Dalia on  Instagram. Check out her free guide here and free gift.

If you are on Facebook, Dalia invites you to join her private exclusive group, that supports liked minded busy women who want to discover and maintain a healthy Jewish lifestyle! 

Dalia runs seasonal programs for Jewish women that can give you that jump-start with the right guidance in only 5 days after Sukkot, Chanukah, and Pesach. Check out more details on her website!

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Dalia Brunschwig
Editor: Matthew Feiler

Wow! It has been one year since Love.Adventure.Mom launched its To (Mom) Life podcast.  Every week since July 2020, we have released at least one new episode. Now, a year later, Jodi and her team brings you a special episode in honor of the podcast’s 1-year-anniversary.  

Join in as Jodi highlights some of the guests that she featured on the podcast during the past year as well as some of the awesome topics that she spoke about with her guests.

Show Notes:
3:33  "To Anxiety" with Leah Katz

6:24 "To Work Life Balance" with Dr. Mimi Knolls

11:14 "To Time Management & Clearing Clutter" with Rebekah Saltzman

13:35 "To Boosting Your Child’s Immune System" with Laureen Wallravin

15:22 "To Understanding Body Signals" with Dalia Brunschwig

17:46 "To Healing Teeth...Naturally" with Mitten Lowe

21:33 "The Power of the Mind-Body Connection" with Kaley Zeitouni

24:02"To Battling Addiction" with Stephanie Pollak

27:14 "To Freedom"

29:44 "Arts & Crafts Organization" with Amy Wilson

36:06 "Leadership" with Dorice Horenstein

38:34 "To Healthy Sleep Routines For You and Your Child" with Eva Klein

40:25 Celebrating 1st year

Connect with Jodi:
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Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Editors: Matt Feiler & Orlando Diaz

One of the most concerning questions a parent may have is “Am I doing a good job preparing my kid/s for the future?” In this episode, Jodi and Christy Keating have a charming dialogue featuring tips for best practices regarding raising your kid/s to be prepared for their future adulthood.

About Our Guest:
Christy Keating is the founder of The Heartful Parent. Christy loves helping parents and more love, joy, and connection in their families and with their children by helping them discover newfound energy in their parenting, develop an appreciation for what they have and who they are, and create sustainable ways to achieve their vision or dream for their family.

Christy is a Certified Parent Coach®, a Certified Positive Discipline Educator, and a Certified Instructor with The Gottman Institute. She is also a long-time leader and speaker for the Program for Early Parent Support.

Show Notes:
5:41 What does it mean to raise adults?
"I think we need to talk about that a little bit more in our daily parenting and not just focusing on the child that is in front of us but the adult that they are going to be"

11:30 How today's parenting decisions will affect future outcomes
"...most of us learn through modeling, right? we learn through what we see, we learn through what we hear, and through what is shown to us."

14:41 Being a mentor for teenagers
"...Most times kids will say things like, well cause all my friends have it [...] and that's where we can then again lean in with that empathy and that understanding, demonstrate that emotional regulation..."

17:51 Finding the balance between  letting your kids be kids and preparing them for the future
"What is our vision four our parenting, because we can not control our kids [...] at some point they will be 25 and what you said no longer carries the same weight"

22:11 Respecting our kids
"Our children deserve for us to show up for them, and value them, and provide them with a sense of belonging and a sense of significance..."

23:29 Importance of curiosity

Connect with Christy:
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Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest:  Christy Keating
Editor: Orlando Diaz

Providing the proper skills to your newborn, baby, or toddler, might seem like a HUGE task and super daunting. In this episode, Jodi speaks with Sharon Mazel who is a pregnancy and parenting expert, NYT bestselling author, parenting coach, speaker, and Instagram influencer. In this episode, Sharon shares her expertise on tummy time, how to follow your baby’s cues, and how to foster the development of your young child’s motor and language skills.

About Our Guest:
Sharon co-authored the bestselling book What to Expect When You're Expecting (4th and 5th editions), along with these other books in the popular What to Expect pregnancy and parenting book series:

What To Expect Before You’re Expecting (1st and 2nd eds)

What To Expect The First Year (2nd and 3rd eds)

What To Expect The Second Year (1st ed)

What To Expect The Toddler Years (2nd ed)

What To Expect: Eating Well When You’re Expecting (1st ed)

What To Expect Pregnancy Journal and Organizer

What To Expect Babysitter's Handbook

What To Expect Guide to Immunizations

What To Expect Guide to a Healthy Home

She was also integral to the content creation and launching of the award-winning website, WhatToExpect.com, where she spent more than a decade writing and editing.

Sharon speaks widely on pregnancy, parenting, and health & wellness topics — plus she's a pregnancy and parenting coach, working with families online and in person, answering questions, giving tips, and coming up with strategies and individualized plans to help expectant and new parents be the best possible parents.

Show Notes:

3:40 - Strengthening and Enhancing your child’s Small Motor Skills
"Get a play gym for your baby ... it's a matter of them, first of all, gaining that hand-eye- coordination and learning "

7:25 - Attention span and a proper time frame of play
"I remember hearing this from some experts, and I was like how interesting, but some young babies when you're playing with them and then they start to hiccup, that's often a sign that they're not interested in playing anymore and their attention span is like gone "

10:40 - Large Motor Development skills
"The best thing that you can do for your baby is to let your baby have time on the floor uncontained. So this way your baby can learn, first of all, what it feels like to be on their back, on their tummy, on their side"

14:25 - Tummy time
"If you put your baby down, and I'm not talking about a one week old, but let's say it's a 6, or 8, or 12 month old, you put your baby down in tummy time, and within 30 seconds they start crying. I wouldn't rush to pick your baby up out of tummy time"

19:30 - Language development
"When your baby coos, coo back to your baby, your baby’s not saying a word but your baby is [saying] 'ah, ah', mimic those sounds and your baby will start to learn the art of conversation"

21:30- Nonverbal communication
"If we can show what happiness looks like to our baby, that's a great teaching tool"

Connect with Sharon:
Join the 150,000+ followers who interact with Sharon daily on Instagram, where she posts informative pregnancy and parenting content daily and hosts regular Q&A's.

Check out her website here

Credits:
Host - Jodi Fried
Guest -  Sharon Mazel
Editor - Matt Feiler

Summer is here, which means NOW is a great time to consider going on a family adventure at some point in the next few months!

Though, in order to plan for a family adventure, that will be rewarding and meets your family's needs, you need to plan accordingly! Also, if you are afraid about such an experience or you don't know how to prepare for such a future trip, you have clicked on the right episode!

In this solo episode, Jodi talks about experiences from her own family adventures. She also shares tips regarding how to prepare for an adventure, overcoming unexpected situations, and the proper mindset one needs to focus on during spending quality time with your loved ones.

Connect with Jodi:
http://loveadventuremom.com/
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Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Editor: Orlando Diaz

*In case you have kids in the background while you're listening to this episode,  just be aware that there is a bit of occasional strong language used during this raw and authentic conversation between Jodi and Gila.*

In this episode, Jodi talks with Gila Levitt about intimacy in marriage. It can be hard to keep intimacy with your partner when you have been married for a while, and it can also be hard finding someone to talk to about it, so in this episode, you can find some useful tips to revitalize intimacy in your marriage, as well as where to look for help in case you need some.

Show Notes:
9:13 What to do when you are not in the mood for intimacy with your partner
"You're thinking that just all of a sudden you're going to be in the mood... again, it could happen sometimes [...] but Just because you're not right now in the mood, doesn't mean that it cannot be created, ok? it's created, we have to learn how to create the mood."

13:43 Feminine and sensual essence in women
"Sensual comes from the word senses [...] To be sensual means to be in touch with 5 senses"

18:16 Different levels of desire within you and your partner
"There is no one standard, except that it has to work [..] so we want to do 2 things. First of all, absolutely, we want to honor where it is that we are holding, on the other hand, we have to understand that there is another person over here. So I always call it bridging the gap."

23:47 When a man is "Not in the mood"
"It could be, and very often it is an indication of health issues that are going on or mental health issues that are going on. So there is definitely what to do also in these situations [...] as long as he is willing."

28:14 Focus on the big picture of your marriage
"Really that is where it starts, with thinking positively about each other [...] becoming one takes place fist in our head, and when we think positively about the other person that is what creates our desire to be one with that person."

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Leanne Dall
Editor: Orlando Diaz

This week, Jodi speaks with Kristi Coppa, founder of Wondergrade. Wondergrade is an app that teaches Self-regulation skills to kids and their parents. In this episode, Kristi offers insight into how to teach your child Self-regulation, calming, and coping skills. She shares concrete tools and strategies to help parents and children alike and also discusses how and when to foster these practices with our children so that they can use them properly throughout their lives.

Shoutout to reviewer: New yawk photographr

About Our Guest:
Kristi Coppa is a mother of two young girls, a kids mindfulness teacher, speaker, writer, and former nurse. Kristi is also the founder of Wondergrade, a digital health and education company that teaches young kids coping and self-regulation skills. She recently released the Wondergrade app, to help parents teach calm-down and self-regulation skills to their kids at home and is in the process of writing a curriculum to help teachers bring social-emotional skills into the classroom. Kristi is a native of the Pacific Northwest. She loves being outside and spends most weekends hiking, camping, wine tasting, or romping around the coast with her husband, girls, and St. Bernard, Sampson.  

 5:00: Kristi’s background that led her to her work
"I've worked with a lot of therapists and teachers, and really was working with how we can make this information really accessible and come to life for kids"

9:15: Recognizing your child's possible stress and worries
"Educating yourself [about how your child's stress] and how that shows up in your child's body is a really powerful (...) And what that looks like is usually being patient with yourself, and after an incident happens, going back and talking to their kid about it"

14:30: How to teach self regulation and coping skills to kids
"I use a lot of these guided visualizations with kids where we are doing something else, pretending that we're something else, while we're working on a skill"

18:15: Identifying the best times to teach these skills
"The absolute best time to practice a new skill is when your kid is at their happiest: So when they're fed, when they are well rested. And that's when they're going to be the most receptive to learning, that's different for every kid, but most young kids, that's like mid morning-ish time like after breakfast"

20:45: Coping techniques
In this section, Kristi walks through calm down techniques such as squeezing lemons, elephant bends, and  hand presses

24:15: Kristi’s app, Wondergrade
"It has two different sections, it has a section for grownups and a section for kids. And the kids section is full of all of our tools. So these are very tangible one to five minute videos, most of them are animated that go through teaching kids these different techniques"

Related Links:

Wondergrade.com

@wondergrade

Wondergrade on Facebook

Show Credits:

Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Kristi Coppa
Editor: Matt Feiler

Detecting whether your child has a speech or language disorder can be confusing, and it is best to leave it up to the professionals to diagnose such a disorder. In this episode, Leanne Dall, a speech-language pathologist, shares some ways to detect signs that may point to the fact that your child is having difficulty with their speech and language abilities and ways to help them improve such skills. She also shares some ways to identify when it would make sense to get your child tested by a speech-language therapist so that they can receive the proper support.

About our guest:
Leanne Dall is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in Portland, Oregon. She is passionate about supporting children who are late talkers, difficult to understand, struggling to learn to read, and/or having difficulty understanding what they read. After witnessing the long-lasting impact of speech and language difficulties on academic and social development, Leanne is a strong advocate for early intervention. She has worked in public schools since 2014 and started her private practice Dallhouse Speech and Language in 2017.

Show Notes:
4:27 The difference between speech and language
"...Are they producing their sound correctly? maybe they have a stutter, they're having difficulty coordinating the words to get out [...] and the language is really the content..."

5:27 Early flags to Identify if your child needs speech therapy
"...Noticing that their child is having a hard time interacting with them or playing and is just kind of in their own world and needs some public interaction because that communication and those words are built on the interaction we have..."

6:55 Helping your child to interact with others
"When there are fewer words but strong social skills then we might work with parents and talk about strategies like, how to read books with your children..."

8:00 Identifying root causes at early ages
"Sometimes a child is just a late talker [...] then they need a push and so oftentimes these kids will appear to catch up by the time they're in kindergarten, the concern is that even though it might look like they caught up then they might have difficulty later down the line, so with reading or writing...

8:47 Speech therapy at 3 and 4 years old
"By the time they're 3 then they should be 75% understandable [...] and then at age 4 there is a huge jump that really you should be able to understand a 4-year-old a 100%..."

11:50 Online speech therapy
"...I found that a lot of the elementary school kids [..] that I work with, they did quite well because they could sit and really look at a computer..."

14:02 Importance of learning language
"Language is also the means that we use to become educated and also to communicate and build relationships with others so it's so central to all of our lives..."

18:21 Sound and Sentence levels
"...as kids get older [...] the idea is that they learn that words don't just have syllables or sentences don't just have words" 

21:05 Parents perspective on speech therapy for their kids
"...Moms asked me, Did I do this? Was it because my pregnancy was this way or did I not talk to my kid enough [...] like these difficulties are not anybody's fault, they come genetically..."

24:08 Speech Pathology's network

25:42 Trust your gut when thinking about looking for help
"When you go to a speech therapist for an evaluation they don't just talk to your kid for a minute like we really spend hours knowing exactly what to look for..."

Connect with Leanne:
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Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Leanne Dall
Editor: Orlando Diaz

In The Jewish religion, it is customary to study Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers, during this time of the year. In this week's episode, brought to you from
The OU's Women Initiative: Counting Towards Sinai, Jodi breaks down the lesson from Pirkei Avot Chapter 4, Verse 4. Tune in to this short solo episode for an inspiring take-away message  that you can integrate into your own life!

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Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Editor: Orlando Diaz

There’s no doubt that being a mom keeps you busy, which sometimes leads you to give up on the hobbies that you enjoy. Today, Jodi speaks with Rivki Silver, who has found a way to develop her interests and simultaneously fulfill her motherhood goals. Rivki, a mother of children ages 2-12 years old, and co-host of the Normal Frum Women Podcast, speaks about how she has remained an artist, writer, and creative throughout her motherhood journey. It is possible to keep up your hobbies during your motherhood journey and tune in to this episode to find out ways you can be successful at doing so!

About Our Guest:
Rivki Silver is a writer, musician and speaker. She has written for a variety of publications, including Family First magazine, Aish.com, and Jewinthecity.com. She is a trained classical musician who has performed with orchestras and also plays piano for local day schools. She has spoken for audiences about her personal story and other Jewish topics. Rivki lives in Cleveland with her family. 

Show Notes:
4:45: Rivki’s background
“I'm a mother to 5 children...I'm also a writer, a speaker, I'm a classically trained musician, even though, like at this current stage I'm not playing so much right now. And like you said, I also am a co-host of the podcast of The Normal Frum Women podcast, which I also edit. So I'm a lot of things”

6:00: Rivki's balance
 “So that was the question that I have, I guess, kind of trying to figure out for the past 15 years is how do I use all of these talents that I accrued in my before life, if you will, into my current life and how can I do it in a way that doesn't detract the job that I love, which is the job of being the mother to my 5 kids"

9:15: Rivki keeping up with her hobbies during her motherhood journey
“It was very important that they should see me using these things, they should see that mommy plays clarinet, they should see  mommy plays piano, like so many times I would have a  sleeping baby on my lap as I would be writing music”

12:50: How Rivki dealt with the conflict and advise
"I had to stop and I had to say, okay this is stopping I had to do this differently now because I can't continue to try to do these creative pieces, it's cutting into the amount of patience I have for my kids, it's cutting into my ability to like make dinner and do basic things like that. And I really felt the panic about like but if I don't create any more then who am I, and I think that this is something that a lot of women struggle with for motherhood, not just necessarily creative types but like if I'm only doing motherhood stuff then who am I like because I was a whole person before I was a mother"

16:00: 3 practical tips for balancing one’s interest and being a mother simultaneously

 22:30: Ways of integrating hobbies into motherhood
"There are always going to be a floor that needs to be swept and a surface that needs to be cleared….timers are amazing, set a timer for 20 minutes, 30 minutes and just do that creative activity, and then you can go on and do whatever responsibilities you still have."

Connect with Rivki on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube

Credits:
Host: Jodi Fried
Guest: Rivki Silver
Editor: Matthew Feiler