In this episode I talk nurse practitioner Emily Silver, co-founder of Nurture by NAPS about anxiety around, during and after pregnancy.

In this episode, I chat with Sujata Martin, an occupational therapist who specializes in providing preventative and restorative pelvic floor health and wellness to her local and online community.

In this very first solo episode, I share a few lessons I want to take with me into the new year, and a few things I want to leave behind in 2020.

Mollie and I chat about her own gratitude practice, how she got started, how toxic positivity is interwoven into mainstream gratitude practices (and why that's a problem), and the importance of having a gratitude practice that's not attached to any sort of outcome.

Gillian and I have a conversation about her story of infertility, including how she's been dealing with it, adoption, ways to best approach a conversation with someone dealing with infertility, and everything in between.

Lindsey Kaupp, founder of e-motion therapy and mother function, and I chat about all things related to the psychological and emotional component of dealing with pain as a mama.

On this episode, Christine and Aubrey, founders of Casa Design Consulting, and I chatted about topics such as how they got started, tangible ways to set up the environment in a child-focused way (while still maintaining it as a family living space) and how these child-focused adjustments to the home environment really can greatly support the mama role.

When your environment does support your children’s growth and autonomy, you give a bit of responsibility to your children, freeing up some of that constantly-doing-and-giving energy that we, as mamas, are all too familiar with.

Casa Design Consulting aspires to reinvigorate families’ sense of cohesion and joy through simple and sustainable child-focused adjustments to the home environment.

Cheryl and I talked about her experience as a mama living with a chronic illness. We also chatted about everyday usual mama things, like trying to incorporate a mindfulness practice into our days, her own journey with postpartum anxiety, decision fatigue and how that happens, and why being optimistic can actually be a bad thing sometimes.

Ashley and I's conversation ranged from postpartum anxiety and depression, to getting out of that “just a mom” mentality, to accepting and being kind to our postpartum bodies.

Aidee and I chat about the topic of sleep for new mamas, how it impacts everything we do, and the stigma/struggle/pressure related to getting our babies to sleep!