Motherhood Uncut

3 Signs Your Effort to Be a "Good Mom" Is Sabotaging The Connection With Your Child 02.07.2026 6min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Trying hard to be a good mom and actually connecting with your child use two completely different parts of your brain. The harder you push to get it right, the more disconnected your child can feel. You are not failing. You might just be stuck in the wrong brain. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through the 3 signs your effort to be a good mom is sabotaging the connection with y...

Money, Confidence & Leadership: What Motherhood Teaches Us About Wealth 01.07.2026 56min

Guests: Melissa Hampton, Founder, Hampton Wealth Management | Kaitlyn Carlson, Founder & CEO, Theory Planning Partners Can women build ambitious careers without sacrificing their children? Kate sits down with financial advisors and entrepreneurs Melissa Hampton and Kaitlyn Carlson for an honest conversation about motherhood, leadership, and creating success on your own terms. Together they explore what it’s like to build businesses in a traditionally male-dominated industry while ra...

Why Trying Harder to Feel Calm Makes Anxiety Worse (And What Your Nervous System Actually Needs) 25.06.2026 13min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have done the therapy. The apps. The breathwork. The journaling. You have been consistent. And the anxiety is still there. You are not doing it wrong. But the effort itself might be exactly what is keeping it in place. When something goes wrong, high achievers work harder. That strategy has gotten you through everything. But your nervous system does not respond to effort the way a...

Motherhood as an Initiation: Satya Doyle Byock on Anxiety, Meaning, and Becoming Whole 23.06.2026 1h 23min

In this episode of Motherhood Uncut, Kate sits down with psychotherapist, author, and Jungian teacher Satya Doyle Byock for a wide-ranging conversation about motherhood, identity, anxiety, and the deeper psychological and spiritual dimensions of becoming a parent. Together they explore: • Why motherhood often feels like a crisis for high-achieving women • The limitations of an achievement-based approach to parenting • Motherhood as an archetypal initiation and transformation • The difference ...

Everything You Have Been Taught About Good Parenting Is Focused on the Wrong Thing 18.06.2026 10min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Everything you have been taught about good parenting is probably focused on the wrong thing. You have read the books. You know the scripts. You know what you are supposed to say when your toddler melts down. You are still anxious. Your child is still struggling. The problem is not your knowledge. It is the state your body is in when you show up. In this episode, I am going to show yo...

A Live Coaching Session: When Everything Changes at Once 15.06.2026 57min

Welcome to Motherhood Uncut. I’m your host, Kate Kripke. Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Melissa, a mother of two young boys who is moving through a deeply tender season: caring for her kids, showing up in a demanding career, and facing the possible loss of her own mother. Together, we talk about grief, old family patterns, the fear of repeating what we lived through as children, and what it means to keep mothering while life feels uncertain and heavy. This conversation is a beau...

Your Postpartum Anxiety Is Not a Hormone Problem. Here Is What Is Actually Running It. 11.06.2026 12min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been treating this like a hormone problem. So have your doctors. That is exactly why it is still here. The supplements, the breathing exercises, the 2 a.m. articles telling you to wait it out. None of it is touching the actual source. Your anxiety is not running on hormones. It is running on a pattern your nervous system learned long before you ever had a baby. In this epis...

How to Show Up Fully With Christine Hassler 09.06.2026 53min

This week, world renowned coach Christine Hassler gets real about what it actually looks like to be a career-driven mother, what wasn't working, what shifted, and where she is today. She shares practical ways to get grounded and clear: having a "grown-up day," loving without worry, and how the stories from our childhood show up in our parenting — and how to work with them. Raw, honest, and genuinely inspiring. 📱 RESOURCES Free Assessment Call: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Free Webinar:...

Your Child Is Not Counting Your Hours. Here's What They're Actually Measuring. 04.06.2026 21min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been running the math for years. Calculating whether your child is getting enough of you. Comparing yourself to the mom who stayed home. And no matter how you run the numbers, you always come up short. What if the math was never the problem? In this episode, I'm going to show you what your child's nervous system is actually measuring when you walk through the door, why more ...

I Lost It on My Kid. Here's What to Do Next (A Therapist Explains) 28.05.2026 21min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You yelled. Or you snapped. Or you went completely silent when your child needed you to stay. And now the guilt is louder than anything that actually happened. Here is what most parenting content gets completely wrong: the rupture is not what damages your child. The silence, the shame spiral, and the emotional withdrawal that follow it are. In this episode, I'm going to walk yo...

Your Career Is Not Hurting Your Child. Here's What Actually Is. 21.05.2026 18min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your career did not damage your bond. Daycare drop-off did not hurt your attachment. But there is something affecting your child's wellbeing right now, and most working moms miss it entirely because it has nothing to do with how many hours they work and everything to do with what happens inside them during the time they do. In this episode, I'm going to share five truths every working...

Why Nothing You Do Calms Your Child Down (A Therapist Explains) 14.05.2026 17min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You've tried everything. The calm voice, the validated feelings, the gentle parenting script. Nothing worked because you were solving the wrong problem. Your child was never giving you a hard time. They were having a hard time. And what they needed had nothing to do with your technique. In this episode, I'm going to show you why nothing you've tried has worked the way you expected, w...

I'm a maternal mental health specialist. If you have postpartum anxiety, watch this. 07.05.2026 11min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Postpartum anxiety is not a hormonal disorder. It is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do when it believes you are unsafe. The problem is not your mind. The problem is that no one has ever taught your nervous system that emotional discomfort can be safe. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through what postpartum anxiety actually is, why standard trea...

Why High-Achieving Women Struggle Most With Postpartum Anxiety 30.04.2026 14min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call If you think your postpartum anxiety is worse because you are not strong enough, you are wrong. The women who achieved the most before motherhood often struggle the most after, not because they are weak, but because the very strengths that made them successful are now working directly against them. In this episode, I’m going to walk you through the 3 reason high-achieving women...

How to Stop Your Toddler's Tantrums by Regulating YOUR Nervous System 29.04.2026 11min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your toddler doesn't respond to your calm words. They respond to your nervous system. That's why no parenting script works consistently until you fix this one thing first. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why toddler tantrums keep escalating despite doing everything right 0:21 Your toddler responds to your nervous system, not your words 0:44 The pattern that keeps repeating 2:37 Your toddler is li...

They Were Wrong About Secure Attachment... What Actually Builds It 16.04.2026 17min

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Almost everything the internet has told you about secure attachment is either incomplete or flat out wrong. In this video, I break down the five myths keeping high-achieving moms stuck in guilt, and the one practice that builds real security between you and your child. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 What the Internet Gets Wrong About Secure Attachment 0:49 Why Chasing Perfection Makes Your Anxie...

How to Feel Calm in Motherhood When Everything Feels Overwhelming 16.04.2026 12min

You're not overwhelmed because you have too much to do. You're overwhelmed because your nervous system is treating uncertainty like danger. And every productivity trick you've tried is making it worse. Here's the real reason motherhood feels so overwhelming, and a three-minute practice that creates actual calm. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal me...

How to Balance Work and Motherhood Without the Constant Guilt 02.04.2026 11min

The guilt hits at work when you think about your child. Then it hits at home when you think about work. You're not failing at balance. You're trying to fix the wrong problem. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal mental health specialist. For over 20 years, I've helped thousands of high-achieving, career-driven moms move out of postpartum anxiety. ⏱️ ...

Postpartum Anxiety: The Real Cause No One Talks About 02.04.2026 12min

You focus on sleep because you're exhausted. You wait for your hormones to balance. You take the supplements, eat better, get outside. And the anxiety is still there. That's because none of those things address what's actually causing it. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal mental health specialist. For over 20 years, I've helped thousands of high-a...

Why Your Baby Won't Stop Crying (And What Your Nervous System Has to Do With It) 02.04.2026 12min

Your baby keeps crying. Nothing you try is working. The problem isn't your baby. It's not your technique either. Here's what's actually happening, and why it starts with your nervous system. 📌 Find out what your nervous system specifically needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal mental health specialist. I've worked with over 6,000 mothers across 20 years. In almost every case, the baby wasn't the problem. The missing ...