Ericka Andersen Sylvester is a writer, author, podcaster and freelance extraordinaire. She also happens to be my sister.

Ericka joins the show to talk about what she’s learned over the last few years about alcohol. She’s currently 8 months alcohol free with her sights set on a full year and in this episode she shares about what landed her at this decision and why she thinks it’s important we start talking about the effects of alcohol more. It seems to get a free pass and it’s also often times glorified in motherhood culture. We get into all of that.

It feels like a sensitive topic and we are both open and honest about our own struggles. I hope it makes you feel less alone if you are feeling that way too.

What we talked about:

6:55- Ericka’s business and work

7:55- Meeting her husband and her journey to motherhood

15:00- Ericka’s decision to become alcohol free

21:40- What she learned from Annie Grace and her book “This Naked Mind”

24:55- The culture of drinking with motherhood

28:50- Family history with drinking

36:10- The culture of drinking in our society and the support systems that she has

50:25- Thoughts on healthy ways to drink alcohol

56:35- The stigma around struggling with alcohol and giving up alcohol

1:03:45- End of podcast questions

Show Notes: 

This Naked Mind – Annie Grace

The Alcohol Experiment – Annie Grace

We are the Luckiest – Laura Mckowen

Blackout – Sara Heploa

Sober Diaries  – Clare Pooley

Annie Grace on the Worth your Time Podcast

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Celeste Goodson is on the show today! Celeste is the owner and founder of ReCORE fitness. This is a company where she helps women postpartum improve core, pelvic floor control, strength, stability and function through pregnancy and recovery. Celeste is the mother of 3 herself and she found that she had some challenging issues recovering after her third child. In her research trying to figure out what to do, she discovered so much great information. With that she founded this amazing business where she is helping other mothers who have gone through the same thing that she has gone through to find solutions. Celeste also has created a maternity fit splint that is a belly band to wear while you run when you are pregnant. 

In this episode, she shares about what she does at ReCORE and why she founded that business. If you know any moms who are pregnant or newly postpartum this is definitely one to refer them to!

What we talked about:

3:10- What ReCORE fitness is

5:20- The problem with women not working on preventing pelvic floor problems

8:05- Things that women should be focusing on in regards to their pelvic floor during pregnancy and postpartum

9:15- What prolapse is

11:00- Exercises that you can do if you are experiencing prolapse

14:20- The difference between a C-section and a vaginal birth in regards to prolapse

15:05- Celeste’s birthing experiences

21:45- What diastasis recti is and what to look for when you think you may have it 

24:00- When to start doing preventative exercises during pregnancy

24:40- Message to people who cannot exercise as they’d like to during pregnancy

26:15- The maternity fit splint that she created

29:20- When and why she started ReCORE

30:20- The certifications that Celeste has and the training that she has gone through

32:30- What you can do if you are still having incontinence

36:10- 5 things to know about your pelvic floor and core postpartum

39:50- Seeing a Pelvic PT postpartum

42:40- Looking back on starting her business while her kids were young

47:00- Advice to herself when she had younger kids now that she has teenagers

48:30- When she gave her kids technology and if she would change the timing of it

51:05- End of podcast questions

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Today my husband Glenn joins me again for round two! If you haven’t listened to our first episode together on road tripping with kids, you can find it here in episode 28 of this podcast!

In this episode we share about our (Glenn’s camping adventure with our two biggest kids and also give thoughts on current real life parenting situations we are finding ourselves in on the regular. We are no experts but we are trying hard to do this well and have learned some lessons along the way. Sometimes we don’t always agree on in the moment decisions but later come to agreeing on the plan of action. We talk about those things in this episode as well as thoughts on letting our kids be bored and not feeling like we have to be their constant source of entertainment.

I hope you enjoy this laid back episode and a peek into everyday parenting with us! Thank you for being here. Keep up the good work. This is hard and you are doing a great job.

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Wendy Demer is on the show today to talk about helping our kids with anxiety and stress through meditation.

She is passionate about teaching others how to live a more balanced joyful life through meditation, self-development and increasing spiritual awareness. She educates teachers, parents, children, coaches and her peers in mindfulness, mediation and sport psychology.

In this episode we talk about how to implement meditation, deep breathing and a gratitude practice into our everyday lives with our own kids!

Let me know if you try the meditations with your kids friends!

What we talked about:

4:00- Wendy’s background working with kids as a teacher

8:35- Working on your own mental health as a parent and as a family as a whole

11:20- How old her kids were when she started getting into meditation and how it has been incorporated into their lives

13:00- How to incorporate meditation into your kid’s life to help decrease stress and the breathing techniques that she uses

18:45- How Wendy started working with athletes on meditation and breathwork

20:00- Helping our kids to understand their emotions

28:15- Tips to empower parents to implement meditation into their family’s lives

31:25- Allowing both ourselves and our kids to feel their feelings

34:15- Where people can find Wendy’s guided meditation

35:00- Wendy’s book, Empowering Our Future

35:55- End of podcast questions

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3:30- Why Tessa wrote her book and the articles that lead to it

7:55- What lead Tessa to become a therapist

9:35- The clients that she works with as a therapist

11:15- Not projecting what happens with her clients on her own kids and what she has seen with mental health in teenagers

17:15- Where to set boundaries with kids using screens

20:40- The six cultural influences

37:25- Helping kids enjoy the fun part of technology without letting them become addicted and have the negative effects of it

41:45- Finding the screen time expectations to set for your kids

42:35- What technology she utilizes with her kids right now and what age that she feels like kids are ready to get phones and social media

52:05- The best memories that we have coming from outside of our technology

54:50- How Tessa balances her own social media usage

57:35- More on the six cultural influences

1:00:25- What parents can do with the knowledge about screens to put all of it into action

1:03:15- What to do when your child has suicidal ideations

1:05:10- End of podcast questions

Think Again – Adam Grant

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