Navigating Motherhood: Boosting Energy and Libido with Nutrition

Motherhood is an exhilarating yet demanding journey. From sleepless nights to endless responsibilities, it's no wonder many moms find themselves running on empty. Unfortunately, a common coping mechanism is hitting the caffeine hard, but as it turns out, there are healthier and more effective ways to recharge our energy and reignite our libidos. In this episode, I am joined by perinatal nutritionist, Brooke Harmer where she shares incredible tips on how to improve your energy, mood AND libido without relying on multiple cups of coffee to make it through the day!

Embrace a Balanced Plate

One of the first steps to feeling more energized is understanding how to build a properly balanced plate. A balance of protein, healthy fats, and fiber is critical. This combination helps stabilize blood sugar and provides long-lasting energy, unlike a bowl of cereal that leaves you crashing later. A colorful diet rich...

Balancing Ambition and Family: How to Avoid Burnout as a High Achiever

In today’s fast-paced world, balancing career aspirations with family commitments is a challenge for many. In a conversation with Katy Murray, we delved into the struggles and strategies of navigating ambition alongside a fulfilling family life. Here’s a peek into some key insights that can help you thrive personally and professionally without sacrificing one for the other.

The Art of Slowing Down

For many high achievers, the notion of slowing down seems counterintuitive. However, embracing a more mindful pace is essential for sustaining energy and avoiding burnout. Rather than racing to tick off every item on a never-ending to-do list, take a moment to breathe, reflect, and prioritize. This intentional pause helps you align your actions with your core values and goals, fostering a fuller, richer life.

Scheduling Downtime

A chief takeaway from our discussion is the importance of...

Reclaim Your Pelvic Floor: Insights into Motherhood's Hidden Struggles

In this episode, I am joined by Becca Boeving, we're diving into a topic that's as essential as it is overlooked: pelvic floor health. Whether you've experienced motherhood yourself or are in awe of the journey others have taken, understanding this part of our anatomy can make a world of difference.

Understanding the Pelvic Floor

The pelvic floor consists of muscles that support various functions, from control over bathroom habits to enhancing intimate moments. Despite its critical role, myths abound, like the ubiquitous suggestion to do Kegels at stoplights. The truth? Not all pelvic floors benefit from Kegels, especially if they’re already tight, which can actually exacerbate issues like incontinence or pain.

From Misconceptions to Realities

Postpartum life often leaves us in a whirlwind concern mostly focused on the newborn. Meanwhile, mothers are left with their pelvic floor recovery...

Welcome back to another episode of The Marriage and Motherhood Podcast. This topic was inspired by a post I stumbled on in a Facebook group. A woman was asking if sleeping in separate rooms would hurt the marriage. 

Rest or Romance?

A woman in the group shared her problem: she and her husband have trouble sleeping together due to conflicting sleep habits. From taking up too much space to noisy disturbances. Although they have a fantastic relationship outside the bedroom, the poor sleep quality was leading to resentment.

Her main concern? Social norms. The idea of sleeping in separate rooms seemed drastic, and she wondered if it would drive them toward divorce.

Challenging Social Norms

If you’ve been following along with my content, you know that I’m an advocate for challenging social norms. Every marriage is unique, and what works for one couple might not work for another. The concept of following societal expectations blindly can often hinder...

Welcome back to another episode of the Marriage and Motherhood podcast! In today’s episode, we feature one of my favorite health experts, Casey Everhart to talk about how we can start eating our way to feeling happier and more energized, and it doesn't involve dieting.

Casey Everhart brings immense knowledge and firsthand experience on health, fitness, and nutrition. As a personal trainer and nutrition coach with a master’s degree in health and human performance, Casey’s journey started with her struggles with weight, body image, and mental health. From being a competitive gymnast to battling disordered eating, Casey turned her struggles into strength. She now helps busy moms find balance through quick at-home workouts and a sustainable nutrition philosophy.

Protein: The Building Block of Health

One of the central themes of our discussion was the importance of protein in our diets. Casey explains that protein contains amino acids, which are...

Understanding The Impact of Meditation

Meditation is often misunderstood as a practice reserved for yogis, hippies, or people who have a lot of free time. However, Marisa’s journey is a testament to the tangible, life-altering benefits of meditation, even for skeptics.

Marisa Lonic is the founder of Mama Work It and Marisa Lonic Coaching and Consulting. Through her platforms, she helps women manage the juggle of mom life, work life, and everything in between. Initially skeptical about meditation, Marisa has transformed into a staunch advocate, utilizing it both personally and professionally.

How To Get Started with Meditating

Meditating has immense benefits and you can start with guided meditations, both live and recorded. If you've found meditating difficult, know that even seasoned meditators have trouble focusing, so if you find it challenging, know that you're not alone. Guided meditations offer structure, helping novices ease into the...

Welcome back to another episode of the Marriage and Mother podcast! This is part two of the series "What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Parent," designed to support aspiring and current parents with as much knowledge as possible to set them up for success.

The Realities of Self-Care

Last episode, we delved into the evolving dynamic of partnership and how to navigate those changes. Today, we'll be focusing on self-care. Self-care is vastly underrated.

At the very core of our life experiences — as women, partners, mothers, daughters, friends, business owners, or any of the myriad roles we play — self-care is pivotal. If we don't take care of ourselves, every facet of our lives can suffer. Imagine walking around with a baseline feeling of 15 on a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 is the best possible state of being. It's like living in a world where you're perpetually cranky, a lens that taints every experience negatively.

Reframing Self-Care

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You all know by now how important it is to care for yourself when you're a mom and the impact it can have on who you're being to your loved ones and this episode we're taking a look at self care with a slight twist because we'll be diving into the importance of self care for caregivers, not just in the sense of being a parent but also being a caregiver to aging or ill parents.

In this episode, I got to chat with Erin Antroinen.

Erin is the passionate owner and CEO of NextGen Caregivers, whose journey into caregiving was sparked when she simultaneously cared for her father battling cancer and her mother facing dementia and Parkinson's. Erin is your guide to a personalized caregiving approach, recognizing that each caregiver's story is unique.

She's here to support caregivers at every stage, from newbies seeking logistics and stress management tips, to seasoned caregivers looking for somatic awareness and emotional support, and those wanting to thrive on their caregiving...

When you're a mom, self care tends to only happen when it's convenient - when you have the time, when you have the energy, and when you remember to.

And we have it completely backwards when it comes to that!

That's like expecting the car to move without putting any gas in it.

Our self care is our gas and in this week's episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with Allie Mirosevic.

Allie is a wife, mom of two, and entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Bliss'd, a self-care brand aimed at helping fellow moms live more joyful and fulfilling lives through the power of journaling. Allie discovered her love for journaling in 2019, during a challenging first postpartum experience, and now wants to help other moms experience the transformative benefits of journaling.

In this episode, Allie and I discuss:

• the incredible impact journaling can have for moms
• different ways you can journal
• how journaling can help you become more mindful with life, marriage and...