Unfilter Yourself

Communication between co-parents isn't always easy - especially early on, if you're trying to navigate new dynamics in your relationship. Working toward having healthy communication is always best for everyone involved, but sometimes things feel too challenging and too overwhelming to even consider that healthy communication might be possible. If your coparenting relationship is full of conflict and unhealthy communication, I'm sharing five rules of communication that can help ease the friction, and help avoid creating additional fear and anxiety in your children. In many instances, following these rules can help move you toward building healthy communication with the other parent over time. In other instances, however, healthy communication may not ever be possible. Even if that's your situation, it's still important to keep these rules in mind because even though you will never have control over what the other person says or does or how they treat you, you have complete control over how you respond and how you show up for yourself and your children. 

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If you're an aspiring high achiever; if you have big goals, big dreams, and you know deep down that your life was meant to be so much bigger than what you are currently living; then today's message is for you. Today I'm talking about a different way to approach your New Year's resolutions so you can actually commit to and follow through on them this year. A way that will help you finally achieve the goals you've been setting year after year, but keep finding yourself falling short on them when you reach the end of the year. Make 2023 the year you succeed!

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Today I'm fired up! Do you have something on your heart that you've been wanting to do or start or learn? Then this episode is for you! In this episode, I share how important it is to just get started - even if it feels uncomfortable and even if you don't really know what you're doing at first! Sometimes we get stuck feeling like we have to know everything before we can get started, or feeling like we have to have everything figured out before we can take the first step. But sometimes the best way to learn everything we need to learn is to just take the first step and learn as we go! We learn through mistakes, we learn through struggles, we learn through experimenting, and we learn through failure. The people you look to as experts in their fields, at one time in their lives, had zero experience in those fields! They had their own "day one" - likely followed by lots of mistakes, lots of experimenting, and lots of failure - which ultimately allowed them to get where they are today!

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Let's change the conversation about self care! Let's stop guilting ourselves into thinking we don't have the time or that we don't deserve to take time for ourselves! Yes, even as a single mom (and dare I say - ESPECIALLY as a single mom!) you not only DESERVE it, but you NEED it! Having a regular self care practice is so important, but social media can sometimes make us feel like a self care practice has to be something really elaborate. The reality is, even small, simple practices can make a huge difference!

Today, I'm sharing five simple self care practices that I've incorporated into my life that have allowed me to honor myself, quiet my mind, calm my nervous system, and tap into my creativity. Which has allowed me to show up in business, as a parent, and in my personal relationships as the best version of myself. It's given me more focus, more clarity, more peace, and more joy. These practices are easy to incorporate just as they are, or you can change them up to fit your routine and lifestyle. Or use them as inspiration to create your own practices.

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Welcome to the Strong Sassy Single Mom Podcast! This is where it all begins! This podcast has been a dream of mine for so long and I'm so excited to finally be bringing it to all of you! In this episode, you'll hear a little about the things I've experienced over the past year that ultimately led me me to finally just hitting the record button and starting this podcast!

I talk about my intention with the podcast - to help you rediscover yourself outside of the roles you've taken on (or the ones you've been assigned). To reconnect with yourself so you can intentionally begin to build YOUR version of the dream life - a life that not only provides for your family, but that brings you joy and is something you can be proud of!