The Good Mom Podcast
Every mom wants to be a good mom but how many times a day do we question this?! We have been conditioned to believe that there are rules for being a good mom but I say your definition is the only one that matters. As a mom with four kids with neurodiversity and a background in education, I believe every child has gifts and talents of genius. I also see life's unexpected trials as chances for us to grow in our strength, love, and connection as a family. Escape from your "bad mom" soundtrack each week to listen in for inspiration on all the mom things, whether neurodiversity is in your family or not. Get the go ahead to have way more fun without guilt, hear new perspectives on old problems, and finally feel like you know what you're doing as a mom.
Episodes
76 episodes
Coaching vs. Therapy and Why Moms Like Us Benefit from Both
I'm clearing up the differences between traditional counseling or therapy and certified life coaching by sharing with you the times in my life when I have utilized both for different purposes. I also share a recent realizaton I have had with cu...
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Episode 87
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14:02
How Being Forced to Rest Can Be a Wonderful Gift
Despite my best efforts to avoid it, I became ill with Covid last week after traveling. I don't know of it was the high fever or just being forced to rest (because my body refused everything except that) but I had some realizations and revelati...
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Season 2
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Episode 86
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31:43
My Top 3 Mistakes as a Mom
Reflecting this week on mistakes I made and sometimes still make. I used to think these were about being a mom. I used to connect these to my mom identity by making them mean something about that aspect of me, but I have a new awareness now tha...
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Episode 84
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16:23
Talking to Tweens & Teens About Sexual Consent with Christy Keating, The Heartful Parent
Special Guest Episode: Christy Keating from The Heartful Parent joins me this week for an informative and open conversation about the who, what, when, and why our tweens and teens need to hear about sexual consent from us. If you've avoid...
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Episode 83
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36:02
What to Say and What NOT to Say to Your LGBTQ+ Kids
For Pride Month, I want to talk openly about what I've learned as a proud mom of a child in the LGBTQ+ community. First of all, I am learning as I go. I have made some mistakes and caught myself acting from unconscious bias, lack of awareness, ...
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Episode 82
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21:24
Perspective on Being the Youngest: Comparison, Checking In & Identity
In this episode my third daughter joins the podcast to talk about her perspective growing up as the youngest in our family. She shares a topic that has recently come up for her with her therapist around the topic of comparison, and some o...
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Episode 81
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20:05
Mothers' Day 2.0: Being Gracious in Receiving Mode
If you are not feeling awesome about Mother's Day either before, during or after, this episode will help you reflect and possibly shift perspective, if that's what you want. The concept of being ready to be in "receiving mode" is shared, along ...
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Episode 78
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12:43
Moms Who Changed Their Thinking & It Changed Everything
This episode is a new format! I am reminiscing about the progress of my very first clients. I share about the mom who discovered that her boyfriend was not problem, the mom who learned how to feel her feelings instead of chasing her self-worth ...
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Episode 77
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19:28
When Reality Sucks: Radically Accept It Anyway
There is a throughline with all the hardest situations we have faced as family. I have noticed it also with moms and families I have coached. It is simple but not easy to do. It's facing reality and radically accepting it. It is not our n...
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Episode 76
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15:37
Just Saying No to Diet, Food, and Body Drama
The first half of this episode I share a concept from coaching that I use often but was reminded of at my recent coach mastermind event in Austin, which is "don't believe everything you think," and we also review again how counseling and coachi...
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Episode 75
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23:43
How to Be Less of a Hot Mess as a Mom
Not all moms relate to being a hot mess, but for those of us who do, I salute you. Seriously, is having our shit together really the goal? In this episode I share some new ways of looking at the "hot mess" persona. Personally, I lea...
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Episode 74
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12:08
Rethinking Our Urge to Over-Control
Anxiety and Fear are just indicators for us to take a pause and think "What am I fearing in this situation?" In this episode we take a step back and rethink how controlling others and our own emotions is our natural tendency as moms, but it has...
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Episode 73
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21:08
Behavior Translation - Accurately Interpreting the Cause of Behaviors
You've heard me say before that behavior is communication, but what the heck is actually being communicated? In this episode I share 4 ways to more accurately determine the real message or cause for maladaptive behaviors. First, do not as...
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Episode 72
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14:31
5 Ways to Connect More Deeply with Your Kids
Connection is soooo important in building healthy, close, and trusting relationships with our kids. If we've missed some opportunities or just want to do better, it's not too late to begin now. In this episode, I give you 5 ways that I've...
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Episode 71
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24:03
Interview with My Adult Daughter - Avoiding Upsets, Feeling Emotions, & Permission to Focus on Self
In this episode, I invited my oldest daughter Jenelle to share her reflections of growing up in our often chaotic and stressful home. She shares the role she took on as a "helper" in our family and how although she liked that role at the time s...
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Episode 70
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23:14
3 Ways to Deal with Uncertainty
On this episode I share three ways that have helped me lately in dealing with uncertainty which produces anxiety and fear. First we have to allow ourselves to actually feel the emotions that are uncomfortable, knowing that we can handle feeling...
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Episode 69
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13:02
Special Time - The One Thing You Can Do to Improve Any Relationship
In our family we have some special things that help us stay close as a family and in our individual relationships. I am sharing one of the things that has always been a "thing" for us. It's called "special time" and I highly recommend you consi...
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Season 2
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Episode 68
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14:13
Loving People When They are Hard to Love
We're talking about loving some more this week. Loving when it's hard. Loving when others are not being loving toward us. Loving people when they are not being very lovable. It's hard. And, it's possible. It feels way better.
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Episode 67
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12:23
Bringing New Light to Old Stories
Many of you have read my story of hustling for my self-worth on my website, and I have touched on some of the effects of my self-image issues in other podcast episodes. It's something I've wanted to "solve" for decades now, and I decided for 20...
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Episode 66
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14:58
Feeling the Love
Do you think love is the best feeling? Do you think experiencing love is our soul's true purpose? I had an experience when I was around 7 that has me trying to reconcile everything I was taught about love and how it's supposed to work, with the...
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Season 2
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Episode 65
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16:40
A Cool Tool for Being Intentional
We wrap up the topic of CLARITY with a tool I learned from an amazing coach, Heather Ross of the Living with Addiction podcast. It is a simple framework for deciding what we want to keep doing, being, or having, and what we want to stop doing, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 64
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16:11
3 New Ways to Clear Up Confusion
For our series on the concept of clarity, I share three strategies that can help clear things right up if we find that we're second-guessing ourselves. There's a simple phrase, a teaching strategy from my classroom days, and an easy-to-remember...
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Episode 63
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8:54
Clarity. You've Got This.
The second in a series on CLARITY, in this episode we hear 3 awesome definitions of clarity and relate them to our mom-brain. We break down exactly how we can access clarity of thinking ANYTIME we want to, and we call BS on our stories of overw...
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Episode 62
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13:09
Getting Clear on What YOU Want
Many of us have lost track of what we really truly enjoy. This denies us the chance to express fully who we are and puts us in a state of confusion instead of clarity. In this episode I share a personal story of getting back in touch with somet...
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Episode 61
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11:52
Leaps of Faith and New Plans
Looking for lessons from 2021 can give us clarity and revelations that can be a surprise. I did a journal prompt that helped me this year and I share it with you along with my biggest lesson from my leap of faith. I also have exciting new plans...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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11:46