Has your marriage felt a little stale and more challenging since having kids?

Maybe more argumentative or like co-parenting roommates?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• The 6 ways to tell if your marriage is disconnected
• Ways to reconnect with your husband TOGETHER and on your own

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For more resources on how to have a happy and successful marriage, head on over to www.michellepurta.com and subscribe!

Have you experienced a lot more anger and burnout ever since becoming a mom?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Lena Suarez-Angelino from Light Collective & Co.

Lena is the owner of a private practice, providing psychotherapy and mental health counseling to residents of New Jersey and Florida. Founder of LIGHT Collective & Co. A community dedicated to helping you prioritize yourself, guilt free. As an intuitive empowerment coach Lena offers live and self-paced programs to help you overcome overwhelm, banish burnout and cultivate confidence. Lena can provide services in English and Spanish.

In this interview, Lena shares:

• Steps you can take to manage your anger/burnout
• Who to turn to when you need support with this (P.S. It's not your family)
• Her brand new anger management workbook

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Being our kids' mom isn't enough to keep us connected. Each of them are individuals who have unique needs to feel connected.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Charise Freeman from Growing In Love Together.

Charise is an Author, Motivational Speaker, and Founder of Growing In Love Together. Growing In Love Together isn't just a business but a movement. A movement that inspires moms to love their family beyond the surface level and aim straight for the heart using the 5 Love Languages. Loving your family using the 5 love languages will strengthen communication, love, and understanding.

In this episode, Charise shares:

• How she uses the 5 love languages to connect with her kids
• The most important thing to remember when connecting with your kids
• Her system on how to involve the whole family to contribute towards the family's chores and responsibilities

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Has motherhood left you feeling like you've lost yourself?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Kelsey Smith from Momma Has Goals.

After the complicated delivery of her first son, Kelsey had the realization that while she had accomplished many "goals", they weren't goals that brought her fulfillment.

As she woke up from surgery she wondered if she hadn't woken up, what story would she leave behind? Would her children know what brought her joy? What she stood for? This experience led Kelsey to her own journey of fulfilment and self discovery where she had the massive realization that this feeling was far too common for mothers all over the world. Kelsey knew she needed to normalize moms having big dreams + making their own fulfillment a priority, so she created a space that helped women and mothers do just that.

Through her community, the Mommas Has Goals phone app, events, and programs Kelsey leads women to the life of their dreams for them...

Motherhood can get the best of us. While it can be very rewarding, it can also have us feel our FULL range of emotions, including anger and rage.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Alison Ryan.

Alison is a Mama Mentor and Personal Coach who supports other moms heal rage and anger with her 1:1 Coaching. She is known to help others find their power and take action so they can live a life that feels good to them.

In this episode Alison and I talk about: 

-Why it's important to love yourself most

-How to allow yourself grace during periods of anger and rage

-Ways to check in with yourself daily to make sure you are being taken care of

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 💗

For more resources on how to have a happy and successful marriage, head on over to www.michellepurta.com and subscribe!

Has motherhood been nothing but overwhelm and burnout for you?

Listen to learn what small changes you can make so you can get some of your time and energy back!

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Marisa Lonic from Mama Work It.

Marisa Lonic is a keynote speaker, life & business coach, 3x author, top-rated podcast host and the founder of Mama Work It. She helps busy women juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life go from overwhelmed to empowered. When she’s not helping moms slay the day, you can find her cooking, running (ok fine - walking/running), and hanging out with the five amazing guys she calls family.

In this interview, Marisa shares:

• What time momagement is
• A perspective shift on time
• Multitasking tips

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How To Know If Your Marriage Needs Work

 Marriage is not always sunshine and rainbows. If you walked into marriage feeling that was the bar that you had to meet, let’s abolish that thought. Marriage, just like everything in life, goes through seasons. It’s the same in motherhood, where there are times it feels like everything is smooth sailing and then something happens and you're thinking, “I don't know what the hell I'm doing.”

Marriage goes through seasons as well. There is so much pressure put on a marriage. We expect our partners to be a certain way and to meet our expectations and make us happy. We're not always doing this intentionally though. Sometimes it's very much unintentional. Even being a marriage coach, I go through this as well. I was subconsciously expecting my spouse to do things I never shared I wanted or I had this unrealistic expectation that I was holding over him.

Where Are You in Your Marriage?

We have so much shit going on all the time: kids, work, ...

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Why is marriage so hard when you have kids? 

Relationships are hard in general. We're all walking around with all these different ideas of what it takes to be in a relationship, what we think is normal, and what we think is healthy. Sometimes we think both are the same. We grew up with our parent's marriage being the prime example of what we think it means to be in a relationship. How do they love each other? How do they show that? How affectionate were they with each other? How do they communicate with each other? How do they handle conflict? How do they prioritize each other? How did they communicate with you? How did they handle conflict with you? How did they react to you when you were expressing your emotions? Like when you were crying a lot, when you were angry, or when you were frustrated? What about when you were happy? Were you even allowed to express your emotions outside of happiness? Personally, my parents were not comfortable with emotions. Something I believe is ...

Welcome to my podcast! I can't believe it! But I've actually been talking about starting this podcast for over a year now. And it just feels so surreal and exciting for it to finally be out in the world. And I'm so grateful you're here spending time with me.

My name is Michelle Purta. And I'm a Life and Marriage Coach for moms. And I want to use this episode to share more about me and why I do what I do and why I created this podcast.

So I am a woman, a wife, a stepmom, and a mom. We live out in California, in the Bay Area right outside of San Francisco. We have a blended family, so my oldest is my husband's son from a different relationship and we have two kids of our own. So right now as we speak, my oldest is twelve. My middle child will be six later this year. My youngest will be two next month and we also have two bunnies.

Now, why am I a Life and Marriage Coach for moms? Of all the things that I can do, why am I this?

Well, the short answer is, I want you to be happy. Th...