Mother Plus Podcast
This is the podcast for "too much" moms who feel like they are failing at motherhood and don't want to fail anymore. Your hosts, Stacey Hutson and Stephanie Sprenger, two ADHD moms of four girls ages 4-18, most definitely don't have it all figured out. But we know one thing for sure: understanding our brains is the key to enjoying our motherhood, and our SELVES again.
Here, we are brutally honest about our ADHD motherhoods (the missed Spirit Weeks, the mountains of laundry, the nostalgia for our old "fun" pre-mom selves) so you know you're not the only one struggling.
When we don't know the answers, or aren't qualified to give them, we bring on the experts. Mental health therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, women's doctors -- we want to learn from them all. Because we believe once you know how to work WITH your ADHD brain rather than against it, it changes everything.
You found your people. We're them. And you're ours. Let's figure this out together.
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Mother Plus Podcast
The Mother Daughter Journey Part 1: What Happens To Our Relationship When They Turn 9?
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In this episode, we cover:
- As parents, we can't help but project "our stuff" onto our children: Deb talks about "conscious adulting," in which we show up responsible for who we are and invite our children to learn how to be exactly who they are.
- Deb gives us a crash course in Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is Steph's favorite kind of therapy and large part of the book she's writing. Deb calls it "the most self-compassionate type of therapy."
- In The Mother Daughter Journey workshops, Deb works with mothers of 9-17 year-old daughters to navigate the changes that happen to relationships during this time, including the inevitable grief that comes with the transition out of childhood.
- Deb talks about how we need to continually fine-tune how we communicate with our daughters so that we are not falling into an "outdated version of connection."
- We learn about the significance of "the mother line," in which we pass things down generationally that may not belong to us and may need to be set down.
In this episode, we interview Deb Rubin, a Boulder-based therapist and facilitator of The Mother Daughter Journey workshops. Deb is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked in numerous therapeutic job settings, as well as sexual health education, consciously blending the best of both Eastern and Western theories into her practice. In the first half of our two-part conversation with Deb, we talk about what it means to take a deep look at ourselves as parents, bringing compassion and consciousness to ourselves and our children.
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To learn more about Deb, visit:
https://motherdaughterjourney.co/
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