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Mom guilt.

Mom rage.

Mom brain.

So many terms in motherhood, most of which we didn't really understand until we were in it.

As mothers in this age, it can be really difficult to love your kids without losing yourself (and your mind!)  in the process.

My guest on the show today has made it her life's work to help mothers banish guilt and beat burnout in motherhood. She just released her first book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When you Already Have Too Much to do. 

This is a book that every mother needs, in my humble opinion.

Dr. Morgan Cutlip, PhD in Psychology and highly sought after relationship expert, knows what it feels like to lose yourself in motherhood, and she’s determined to help mothers navigate it better.Throughout her career, she has helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide learn how to form and maintain healthy relationships.Dr. Morgan has been a featured relationship expert with Teen Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Health Magazine, MOPS International, Loveology, and Flo, the #1 app in health and fitness.

Today on the show, we talk about very practical things you can do to find your way back to yourself in motherhood. Spoiler alert: it's not a quick fix (and anything that promises to be is probably too good to be true).

It's a process. But a noble one at that.

Enjoy, mama!

Warmly,

Lauren
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Have you ever picked up a book that you just couldn't put down?

You are exhausted and you want to go to bed, but you simply cannot stop turning the pages. And when you turn that final page, you're so sad, because it's over. But you're changed for having read it.

That is The In Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments.

It's a book written by hospice nurse, Hadley Vlahos, RN.

Over her years helping patients transition from this life to whatever comes next, Hadley compiled their stories and realized that since they had left her forever changed, they would probably do the same for others.

Her social media account grew quickly as people became more and more interested about her work as a hospice nurse, and the stories of the people she has had the honor of serving in their final days, weeks and months of life.

I had the honor of interviewing Hadley about her wonderful book.

Today on the show, we discuss:

1.  Themes and advice that dying people wish they could have given to themselves earlier.

2. faith and its role in death. 

3. How to talk to our kids about death.

And much more.

Settle in for an episode that just might change the way you live with lesson from those who have already passed on.

Much love,

Lauren
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When co-founder Natasha Case of the wildly popular ice cream company, Coolhaus, found herself challenged by feeding her little ones, she took action.

She realized that as both she and her wife, Freya, were busy working professionals and entrepreneurs, they were solving their nutritional needs by ordering pre-made meals for themselves through a meal delivery service.

Standing over yet another uneaten lunch that her son had brought back home from school and feeling frustrated, Natasha had an aha moment:

Why don't we have meal delivery services for kids?

She got to researching and couldn't find any suitable options. She wondered why:

Was it too hard a market to get into? Or was it simply an untapped market that she needed to innovate?

She went with the latter, and a year after selling Coolhaus, Lunch Bunch began serving its first round of meals.

Today on the show, Natasha discusses how Coolhaus and parenting gave way to the birth of Lunch Bunch. Get ready to learn about entrepreneurship while also learning about how to invoke your children's curiosity and unlock the way to get them to eat truly nourishing food.

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Visit https://lunch-bunch.com/ to order yours.

And bonus: The Mom Feed has partnered with Lunch Bunch to create two of their meals for the week: the Rainbow Roll and the Zoodles with Cauli-Fredo Sauce. Order yours today!

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Welcome to the first episode of The Mom Feed! To kick things off, we are talking with Melissa Szymankiewicz, D.C. She is a chiropractor specializing in postpartum healing, newborn integration, and family bonding. If you are pregnant, thinking about getting pregnant, or are in the first 6-12 weeks postpartum, this episode is for you. 

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Welcome to The Mom Feed, a podcast about the transition into motherhood. I am your host, Lauren Ashley Lobley, mother to two young kids, Madison and Liam. Motherhood was “supposed” to come naturally me. It didn’t. And now I’m finally talking about it.

Join me each week for real, raw, honest conversations about everything in and around what it means to become “mom.” As a woman transitions into motherhood, it creates the greatest changes in hormones and brain chemistry she’ll experience in her lifetime. It’s fair to say that among those internal changes - along with the external changes of having a new child - women need support. 

Welcome to your support team, ladies.

My goal is to empower you with information that will make your life easier, that will help you understand why you’re feeling the way you are, and give you permission to feel it all simultaneously. 

Join me for new episodes every Thursday! And let’s keep this conversation going after the show: join our private Facebook Group The Mom Feed Podcast, and follow us on Instagram @The_Mom_Feed

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I simply cannot believe that we’ve already come to the end of another year, but alas, here we are. And I think so many of us have some kind of health goal we’d like to carry out once the new year begins.

One of the things that seems to be super popular is intermittent fasting. I invited Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Erin Holt, on the show a few months ago to talk about nutrition for women in general, and we touched on intermittent fasting but we didn’t have time to dive deeper.

Well, that’s what we’re doing today. Because Erin is back and she’s talking all about intermittent fasting. What she has to say will surely surprise you, particularly if you’ve got female physiology and you’re in your reproductive years. We cannot talk about intermittent fasting without talking about blood sugar, which do today as well. And before you go thinking, “I don’t have diabetes or insulin resistance, so why should I care about blood sugar?” let me tell you: it’s in one of - if not the key to maintaining your health and a healthy weight.

Get prepared for a fast but furious lesson in nutrition that could very well liberate you and catapult you into crushing whatever health goal you’ve got for 2023.

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Do you have siblings? If so, do you get along? Do you ever remember a time where you did? What was your relationship like as children?

Sibling relationships can be tricky. As it says in the book - Siblings Without Rivalry - when another child comes along, it can feel like a roommate the first child never asked for and never wanted. While some children may gravitate toward their new sibling, others may not. And no matter how the relationship starts out, there will be times when siblings inevitably do not get along.

This can make for a very stressful situation for you as a parent. Of course we want our children to get along, but it would help to understand what's going on inside their heads so we could understand how to more easily help them get there.

Today I'm talking to parenting coach and mother of two, Danielle Bettmann. We're talking all about how to help siblings get along!

Today she explains just what our kids are feeling about each other, and she gives practical, easy to implement tools to help foster not just the relationship they have with their sibling(s), but also - and more importantly - the one that they have with themselves. We talk about the nuts and bolts of the sibling relationship and then we get into specific scenarios like what to do when your children are vying for your attention at the same time, what to do about hitting and kicking and other dangerous physical behavior, how to handle it when your child says really hurtful things about the other child, validating your child’s feelings even when you don’t like how they are expressing them, and so much more!

This is definitely going to be an episode you’ll want to take notes on, save, and also, listen to with your partner. It’s soooo important to be on the same parenting page as your partner. It can save a lot of headaches and frankly, cause much less confusion for your children.

So let's go!

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Talking about the birds and the bees has been depicted in so many ways throughout our lives. It's a conversation I naively thought didn't really have to happen until my kids were at least 15 or 16 years old.

That's why I was so surprised when my 6 year old daughter came to me at the end of a play date last month to tell me that her 6 year old male playmate had asked to touch her private parts (cue the panic, red flushed face, shaking with adrenaline Hulk-like creature I felt myself becoming as she delivered each word).

On the show today, you can hear the full story about what happened.

I was so shaken up by the event that I reached out to my friend, Dr. Sarah Bren, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in parenting. Through many voice messages back and forth over Instagram, she was able to help me calm down and to see that what happened between my daughter and her playmate was actually very developmentally appropriate (huh?).

She talked me through it and did such a great job that I knew I needed to have her on the show to talk about it. Because as parents, we need to know how to talk to our kids about bodily autonomy, consent (wait until you hear what Sarah has to say about that!), body parts and all the things so that by the time we get to that quintessential birds and bees conversation, well, it will basically already have happened. And it won't be awkward. And our children will feel empowered around and informed about their bodies. That may sound idyllic, but after today's show, I think you'll see that that future is very possible. And I would argue, it is our responsibility to make sure that future comes to fruition (sorry, just add it to the ever growing list of your already too-many child rearing responsibilities).

So get ready to get comfortable with the uncomfortable, and set your children up for success around bodily autonomy!

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When Danica Thornberry, DAOM, found herself staring at her lab work at 31 years of age - lab work that confirmed she was headed into early menopause due to prematurely aging ovaries - she couldn't believe it.

She had spent the previous decade helping her patients in her practice in LA to overcome fertility challenges. How could this be?

At the time of her diagnosis, Danica was not in a place to begin trying for a family. She thought she had time, and she was determined to figure out how to create it.

She did just that, and she went on to have 2 children in her late 30s.

Danica's approach to fertility combines a unique combination of fertile foods and thoughts, and a deeper understanding of the 4 phases of a woman's cycle. Her program, The Seed Fertility Program, has been touted as life changing by Erin Foster of The World's First Podcast, and has been featured in Goop.

Tune in to hear how you can improve your fertility with Danica's unique program. You'll also learn more about endometriosis, PCOS, and what prematurely ages our ovaries (and what you can do about slowing that down).

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We’ve all been there. You’re at the park or on a playdate with your mom friends and their babes who are about the same age. You’re trying not to - you really are - but you can’t help but notice that your friend’s baby is crawling or walking or doing something that your child is not yet doing. And they are the same age.

You try not to panic. But the truth is, we’ve never done this before. We don’t know what is considered “normal” and what isn’t when it comes to so many things about our children, particularly their developmental milestones. I’m talking about things like rolling over, crawling, walking and other gross motor skills your pediatrician asks you about at every check up.

Today, Dr. Brita DeStefano helps take the guesswork out of those developmental skills. Dr. DeStefano is board certified as a pediatric specialist and focuses her work primarily on babies between 0 and 2 years old where much of these developmental motor skills occur.

We talk about lip ties and tongue ties as well, sleep positions, flat heads and helmets, and so much more.

Get ready to feel empowered and to truly understand what’s going on for your child in those very formative years so that you can work together to make this time enjoyable. Because it can be.

For more information about Dr. DeStefano and her work, visit https://www.ptpdenver.com/ 

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