The Motherhood Mentor

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  Boundaries with toddlers: gentle parenting, codependency, and parenting strategies for real life 25.08.2026 34min

  Your toddler isn’t “being bad” and you aren’t failing because you need space. The toddler years are a real biological and relational shift: after a season of constant baby attunement, your child starts practicing autonomy and your nervous system starts asking, “What about me?” That’s where resentment, overwhelm, and those out-of-nowhere anger spikes can sneak in, especially for sensitive, big-hearted moms who default to fawning or people pleasing. We talk through what it actually means...
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  What If Shame Is Not An Emotion? Breaking Mom Guilt and Shame with David Bedrick 17.08.2026 1h 2min

  This episode is a re-air as it was a favorite! Join me in this episode around shame as I sit down with David Bedrick to reframe shame as an internalized witness that dismisses our lived experience, then trace how that shows up as mom guilt, perfectionism, and self-fixing. We practice unshaming the energies underneath yelling, tiredness, and boundary-setting so the parent-child relationship stays real instead of performative. • shame as an internalized witness that denies and gasl...
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  Somatic Meditation and Practice to Come Back to Center and Self 02.07.2026 27min

  What if the answer isn't thinking harder? So many women are trying to think their way through emotions, anxiety, overwhelm, conflict, and stress. But what if your body already knows something your mind can't access? In this guided somatic episode, I walk you through a simple body scanning practice designed to help you reconnect with yourself, regulate your nervous system, and come back to the present moment. Whether you're feeling overstimulated by motherhood, stuck in a spiral of overthinkin...
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  When Your Child's Emotions Become Your Emergency: People Pleasing as a Mother with Luis Mojica 23.06.2026 56min

  What if your people-pleasing isn't actually a personality trait? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with somatic therapist and educator Luis Mojica to explore the nervous system roots of fawning, people-pleasing, and codependency in motherhood. We unpack why so many mothers lose connection with themselves after having children, how our kids' emotions can become our emergency, and why self-attunement isn't selfish—it's one of the greatest gifts we can give our families. Inside this epis...
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  Guided Meditation for Boundaries : Healthy Separation and Feeling Self 09.06.2026 21min

  Today's episode is a guided somatic meditation for feeling into and cleaning up boundaries. Please do not listen while driving and be sure you are in a space where it would be safe to be in a meditative state. Your energy can feel “leaky” long before your mind finds the words for it. We’re slowing everything down with a guided grounding meditation designed to help you notice what’s happening in your body, name it clearly, and reconnect with what is yours. We start with simple orientati...
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  Where Boundaries Begin: The Foundations of Healthy Boundaries 02.06.2026 37min

  The First Boundary Is the PauseComing back to your body, regulating your nervous system, and learning to respond instead of react. In this episode of the Motherhood Mentor Podcast, we slow boundaries down and bring them back into the body. Because before boundaries become a conversation, a script, or a decision about contact, they often begin with something much smaller: a pause. We talk about what happens when conflict, noise, parenting stress, or family dynamics overwhelm your nervous...
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  The Intersection of Boundaries With Parents and Parenting Your Kids 26.05.2026 33min

  IS your nervous system the reason boundaries feel so hard? Both with your parents and your kids or partner? Freeze, fawn, people pleasing, emotional labor, and the family roles women never stop carrying. If setting boundaries with your parents feels similar to a toddler meltdown, there’s probably a reason and it’s not because you’re weak, dramatic, or incapable. In this episode of the Motherhood Mentor Podcast, we unpack the invisible emotional labor many adult daughters still carry lon...
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  The Messy Middle Between Full Contact and No Contact and Somatic Boundaries 19.05.2026 36min

  People pleasing, emotionally immature parents, nervous system triggers, and learning to protect your peace without disappearing or cutting others off. There’s a space many women live in that we need to talk about. You’re not fully in the relationship anymore… but you can’t fully walk away either. The current relationship isn't working, but a full cut off also doesn't work for you. You are wondering how to set boundaries without feeling guilty. You are wondering how to love p...
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  The Trend of Going No Contact: The Messy Reality of Family Boundaries 15.05.2026 19min

  You can love your parents, appreciate what they sacrificed, and still feel deeply impacted by the relationship. In this episode of the Motherhood Mentor Podcast, we talk about the messy middle between full contact and no contact with parents, especially for high-functioning women navigating motherhood, boundaries, guilt, and complicated family dynamics. The internet often makes family boundaries sound clean and obvious: cut them off or keep the peace. But real relationships are rarely that si...
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  Struggling with Boundaries? The Nuanced Maybe Based on Your Capacity 01.05.2026 32min

  Most advice about boundaries says: “If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no.” But most of real life doesn't look or feel like that. In this episode, we talk about why boundaries aren’t actually black and white—and why so many women (especially moms) feel like they’re failing when they try to force clear yes-or-no decisions in complex relationships and decision making. The truth is… most of your life lives in the messy middle. You’re navigating your kids, your partner, your p...
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  How Breathwork Resets a Stressed Nervous System 07.04.2026 53min

  For many moms, that quiet “I’m fine” isn’t actually fine. It’s a nervous system pattern of holding it all together under bracing and control. When you’re the one holding everything together - the schedules, the emotions, the invisible labor -your body often learns to stay braced. Literally and figuratively holding your breath. In this episode, we sit down with Tabatha Debruyn to talk about 9D Breath work and somatic breath work and why it’s one of the fastest ways to shift your ne...
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  Why High Achievers Burn Out Quietly: When Pouring from an Empty Cup is Your Coping Strategy 31.03.2026 22min

  You don’t usually see a high-functioning woman fall apart in a dramatic way. It happens quietly. Subtly. Responsibly. To the point where everything still looks fine… but inside, something feels off. If you’re still getting everything done but feel numb, foggy, disconnected, or low-key resentful, this isn’t you being ungrateful. It’s what burnout looks like when your nervous system has been running on pressure for too long. In this episode, we talk about the hidden signs of ...
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  The Lonely Side of Being the Strong One (For High-Functioning Moms) 24.03.2026 31min

  You’re the strong one. The capable one. The one everyone relies on. You hold the emotional tone of your home, keep things moving, and rarely drop the ball. But underneath it all? You feel braced, tired, and more alone than you want to admit. In this episode, we unpack what “high-functioning” actually looks like for moms—and why being the one who holds everything together often means you’re the least supported in the room. Why you can be surrounded by people, but still feel lonely in the day t...
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  How and why to take a screen Detox with Nina Caviggiola 10.03.2026 53min

  Less screen time, more life. Join Rebecca and Nina (Balkanina)If you’re arguing about devices more than you want to admit and you feel like tech is shaping your family more than you are, this episode is for you. This conversation is a practical guide for parents and adults who want a calmer, healthier relationship with screens. We talk about why screen limits alone often don’t work, how screen overstimulation affects behavior, and what actually happens when families reset their relation...
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  Is This Growth or Am I Falling Apart? The discomfort of growing pains 27.02.2026 7min

  Welcome to this mini episode where we name the “good discomfort” of growth and why trying to fix it too soon blocks expansion. We share how embodiment, not mindset alone, helps hold paradox—being content and still wanting more—while you move between identities. • naming the spiral of upward growth • why old tools stop working during expansion • the urge to fix versus the need to feel • mindset as bypass and how it keeps women stuck • practicing posture, positioning and embodiment • holding c...
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  Parenting Big Feelings & Strong Wills With Loving Boundaries with Mary Van Geffen 03.02.2026 53min

  Do you have a strong-willed, big-feeling, highly sensitive child who feels like “too much”? Parenting the “Spicy” Child: Strong-Willed Kids, Big Feelings, and Connection-Based Discipline Parenting a strong-willed, big-feeling child can feel like living next to a volcano-beautiful, powerful, and unpredictable. We explore what Mary calls the spicy child: kids with high intensity, low adaptability, high perceptibility, and high persistence. These are the children who feel deeply, notice everythi...
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  When It’s Never Enough: Healing the High-Achiever Nervous System 28.01.2026 18min

  Let's explore how to stay hungry for growth without missing the life you already built. We share practical ways to feel content now while nurturing ambition for your body, marriage, work, and motherhood. • naming the gap obsession and its cost • choosing hungry not starving as a core mindset • celebrating wins you already own and wanting what you already have • body peace through strength, food freedom and comfort • building a resilient marriage with real boundaries • steady parenting ...
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  From Overhaul To Integrity: A Gentle Steady New Year 16.01.2026 24min

  Forget the sprint. We’re starting the year steady, grounded, and honest about capacity. Instead of chasing a dazzling future self, we look at what’s here now- what worked, what didn’t, and how to build change that outlasts a January dopamine hit. In this episode I share why integrity beats motivation, how to regulate your nervous system in real life, and what it means to show up in the messy middle with devotion and mercy rather than perfection. This is also your invitation to join Steady Ja...
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  When Safety Returns, Who Are You? Chonda Costin on Survival, Burnout, and Redefining Success 13.01.2026 1h

  What if survival mode saved your life, and then quietly held you back once you were safe? That's the tension we unpack with coach, veteran, and mother of five Chonda Costin, whose journey from domestic violence recovery to military service to purpose-driven coaching reveals the hidden cost of operating in crisis long after the crisis ends. The story is raw and generous: leaving an abusive marriage, joining the military at 25 with three little girls, twin beds and hand-me-down furniture, nursi...
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  Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn- Your bodies responses to triggers and threats 11.12.2025 23min

  Our bodies have unconscious patterns of responding to perceived threats that happen without conscious control, ranging from simple to complex defensive reactions. • Fight response involves mobilizing energy against a threat with aggressive outbursts, criticism, or controlling behaviors • Flight response means moving away from threats through anxiety, overthinking, or intellectual distancing • Freeze response feels like "one foot on gas, one on brake" – internal activation with external immobi...