The Mama Love Podcast

Healing Your Birth Story with Emily Souder

Episode 4 - Healing Your Birth Story with Emily Souder In this Episode we explore: * The importance of processing your unique birth journey * Honoring unmet expectations in birth  * When to seek therapeutic support (especially in the case of a traumatic birth) * Stretching ourselves to reach out for support & receiving with grace & humility  Resource: Post Partum Support International https://www.postpartum.net/ About our guest: Emily Souder is a mama, author, coach and clinical social worker in Maryland. She uses mindfulness, self-care skills, mindset work, and intuition-informed guidance to support moms, new parents, and mom business owners in feeling confident and empowered. She is married, has two children, and loves spending time in nature. She wrote Birth Story Brave, a self-reflection guide, to help people reflect on their child birth experiences.   Business Name: Nesting Space LLC www.nestingspacellc.com https://www.facebook.com/nestingspacellc https://www.instagram.com/nesting_space Link to purchase Birth Story Brave: https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Story-Brave-Reflecting-Childbirth/dp/069298240X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520858163&sr=8-1 ***The Kindle version of Birth Story Brave will be free on Amazon from May 6  through May 10!!! Emily is also offering 20% off the PDF version through her website (www.nestingspacellc.com) with the code GET20. The PDF version is LGBTQIA-affirming and comes with a fillable PDF and printable PDF.

Shame Resilience & Creating Harmony in the Modern Blended Family

Mama Love Episode 3 - Shame Resilience Partners, Addictive Emotions & Empowering Step Moms * Trigger alert: We explore some of the deepest darkest places we can go as mothers. While in this episode we bring levity to our most frightening thoughts, it is important to know when it is “just a thought” vs. something we would take action on. If you ever feel you might bring harm to yourself or your child, please reach out to someone you trust and seek professional help. Maternal Mental Health Resources https://www.womenshealth.gov/mental-health/get-help-now Suicide prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ 1-800-273-8255 Office on Women’s Health https://www.womenshealth.gov/mental-health/get-help-now In this episode we explore: - Why having a shame resilience partner is the key to surviving motherhood (Literally!) - How to climb out of the rabbit hole of addictive emotions - Why life is so darn hard when we are under resourced (read: sleep deprived) - How to create your “safety plan” to keep yourself and your kids safe - When to seek professional support (coaching vs counseling) - How to avoid the biggest mistakes step moms make - How to create harmony in the modern blended family Bio: Nathalie Savell is a step-mom to an energetic 8 year old boy, a biological mom to a fiesty 4 year old boy, and a dog mom to a loving 10 year old pug mix. She lives outside Baltimore, Maryland and works for herself as a Holistic Psychotherapist and a Coach for Step-moms. Her surprise entry into motherhood came with a quick entry into step-motherhood as well, and the challenges presented to her provided a whole new level of personal growth work. Having already been certified as a Holistic Health Coach in addition to her master's in Counseling, she was amazed at the new level of challenge she encountered. Her challenges and growth led her to obtaining a certification as a Step-family Coach. She is now obsessed with supporting other Step-moms who find themselves similarly thrown off by their positions in often complex blended family dynamics, helping them to be confident, have clarity and feel connected regardless of what is happening around them. She offers a variety of services including a virtual interview series "Empowering Step-moms: Re-Imagining the Modern Family". The interview series covers topics such as relationship health, parenting, stress resilience, and self-confidence. Everything she offers can be found at: www.NathalieSavell.com

Cultivating Compassion in Our Everyday Mothering with Laura Jack

Mama Love - Episode 2: Cultivating Compassion in Our Everyday Mothering with Laura Jack “Mamas, we are gonna be ok!” In this episode we explore: - Cultivating compassion for ourselves, our partners, our kids and really, everyone! - Honoring grief, from major loss to simple life changes - Dispelling the myth that we should grieve alone The ultimate takeaway: “It’s ok for you to feel whatever you are feeling.” Amen! Big Thank You to our guest, Laura Jack, author of #1 International Best Seller, The Compassion Code, a Mastery Level Transformational Life Coach, a speaker, and an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist. She teaches compassionate communication and how to relate to one another more effectively during the challenging moments in life. She is also the founder of The Marriage Upgrade, helping super moms around the world heal their marriage and family life while cultivating a culture of compassion starting within. Learn more at www.laurajack.com Please purchase her fantastic book, “The Compassion Code” here: http://mybook.to/TheCompassionCode

Mom Shaming, The “Advice Police,” and Weathering Our Emotional Storms with Livia Cohen-Shapiro

Mama Love Episode 1 - Mom Shaming, the “Advice Police” and Weathering Our Biggest Emotional Storms: How to become less reactive and more resilient, especially when people are projecting their Sh*z onto you - with Livia Cohen Shapiro Call to action: Let’s do our part to End Mom Shaming We are all having unique experiences and challenges within our expression of family. And at the same time, we are all connected through a common thread: Motherhood. Can we cease judgment and instead have compassion for others, knowing that while we may make different choices then they’ve made, that they are doing the best they can with the awareness and resources available to them in this moment? And can we have compassion for ourselves when we judge ourselves harshly for the choices we’ve made and our reactions, knowing we are also doing the best we can with the awareness and resources available to us in each moment? This is the invitation. This is the practice. About our Guest: Livia Cohen Shapiro is a Mama first and foremost, wife, lover of words, teacher, counselor, spiritual activist and a forever student. Livia holds a masters of Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. She has practiced and taught yoga for nearly two decades and her dedication to understanding the human experience is life-long. Her article Yoga-Based Body Psychotherapy is published in the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy. She is most at home in the cauldron of her own practices- be it asana, dance or writing. But mothering and partnership continue to be the most rigorous and transformative practices of all. She resides in Boulder, CO with her husband, daughter, two aging cats and a lot of books. And drinks a hot chocolate every day.  You can find her online at: ecstaticunfoldment.com appliedpsychologyforyogis.com www.facebook.com/ecstaticunfoldment www.instagram.com/ecstaticunfoldment * If this conversation resonates with you, please leave us a review on iTunes and share this episode with the mamas you love.