The Modern Mommy Doc Podcast

We have to start differentiating between coping in ways that will cause harm to us and our family and self-care. True self-care is about taking care of yourself in the most intimate ways and building connections with yourself to understand who you are.

What if we changed the narrative from “Self-care isn’t selfish” to ““Self-care doesn’t have to be selfish”? Because as a maternal and child public health expert, I’ve absolutely seen it turn that way.

Join me on this episode for more HERE: modernmommydoc.com/self-care-without-collateral-damage

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Explore all the topics covered during our time together:

• SELF-CARE: Why is it so important? How do you personally define it? How can you incorporate it into your life?
• GOAL-SETTING: Create a roadmap to an impactful plan made just for YOU and YOUR life
• HEALTH RITUALS: Nutrition that fuels you and movement that moves you beyond just the physical - including easy meal prep tips
• SELF-LOVE: Being kind to yourself and addressing your own needs without feeling guilty
• MINDFUL COMPASSION: Developing it for yourself, your kids, and your partner
• MINDSET: Create inner strength and peace through meditation and self-reflection
• TIME MANAGEMENT: Do less so you can do more of what brings you joy
• BURNOUT: It happens! Understand it, address it, and avoid it

Get it HERE: modernmamasclub.com or the Apple App Store

Do you feel like you are drowning under a list of “to-dos” and the invisible workload that so often falls on the shoulders of women?

Eve Rodsky is a wife, mother, a Harvard graduate, and the author of Fair Play, a book that is not only shining a light on the issue of women’s unpaid labor, but also provides actionable steps to more equitably divvy up domestic responsibilities.

In this episode, Eve shares the moment of her personal reckoning and the catalyst that eventually led to Fair Play being born, how unpaid labor is an issue that transcends race, class, and even sexual identity, and reminds us that it’s not a badge of honor to have it all by doing it all.

We also discuss steps to building more equity with your partner when it comes to household responsibility, and why change starts with each of us unlearning every message about our role and value that we have been given throughout our lives.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3iQey3J

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

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This episode dives into the importance of meditation and mindfulness for working moms, and how to make time for it in our busy schedules. You can find our all about the episode HERE.

We’re keeping it real AND getting back to the basics in this episode!

We all know that mental health is important, and it’s fantastic that there is so much awareness around it, but it’s crucial that we also remember our physical health is just as important.

Krystle Howald is co-founder of Expecting and Empowered, whose mission is to empower ALL women to feel confident in keeping their baby safe during pregnancy and heal their body properly after birth.

Listen in as we dive into something so many of us don’t give much thought to: our own body mechanics in the postpartum period through the toddler and elementary school years. What does that mean? How we carry our kids, how we breastfeed, how we stand, and even how we pick them up can leave us moms with challenges when it comes to how our body feels - and challenges with our mental health as a result.

Krystle will give us tips to keep our body mechanics in shape from birth, including how to carry your kids in the most physically beneficial way for your body, how to balance your core, and how to conserve your energy (including some hacks to make laundry easier!) She also gives advice on what to do if you’re already having mechanical problems, and shares the most common mechanical areas that moms can improve on.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3vx4Mbd

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

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When we can focus on our children’s strengths - instead of their weaknesses - we can help them to truly reach their full potential.

Dr. Sam Goldstein and Dr. Robert Brooks are the authors of Tenacity in Children, a book that provides a framework to raise resilient and happy children by nurturing the seven instincts for lifetime success.

Listen in as we go through the seven instincts that children are born with and how we, as parents, can provide opportunities to nurture those instincts to cultivate tenacity, and ultimately success, in our children.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2UDrBNv

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself.

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts.

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞