The Good Mom Podcast

After a 2-week break from recording my podcast I am sharing with you my personal struggle with managing my fear around not recognizing myself and my decision to do some inner work on that, my perception of failure and the story I decided to change about that, and the way I want to experience this next stage of life as a mom. Things are changing and I am excited to see what develops and share it with you! If you find this episode to be helpful, can you give it a review? Thank you for listening!

As moms with families in crisis, resolutions are pretty much the last thing on our minds. We don't have to be left out of choosing with intention though. A coaching tool I learned and teach to my clients is the keep, start, and stop method. Three things you get to choose. What do you want to keep doing in your life that is nurturing to you, moms? What is one new thing that you want to try? What's something you are doing that is not useful or helpful and you want to stop doing? Putting our brain to the task of choosing just one thing to keep doing, one new thing to start doing, and one little thing to stop doing gives us a better chance of choosing meaninful actions for our life. The most important part of all - trusting ourselves that we know what we want and giving ourselves permission to choose.

Balancing conflicting needs among family members, honoring differing opinions and keeping traditons when it's possible requires a new approach. Listen in to hear the solution we came up with so we could feel safe and still be together for Christmas during the pandemic of 2020.

These are the last five of fifteen of my unedited, partial rants, on the 3-part series of what I'm affectionately calling real mom truths. I touch on unsolicited advice, the fact that one person can influence a relationship, behaviors from kids and our responses to it, and two hot topics, sex and money. Just your mom-next-door's take on what worked for us as a family doing real life. Enjoy this episode and please rate and review!

There's generational imprinting happening that comes from our moms to us, and is carried from us to our kids, that has been going on since the beginning of time. In this episode I offer a few ways to think about this phenomena, as it relates to us and our identity and also in the way we want to apply it to our relationships with both our own moms and our kids.