The Not Safe For Mom Group Podcast
When society thinks of motherhood, they often think of Pampers and strollers; but we know it’s far more nuanced and complex than that. There’s a vast spectrum of experiences and stories — like what’s it like to discover your partner's darkest secret after just having had a baby together? What does motherhood look like when you suffer from multiple mental illnesses? How does a traumatic event in childhood color how we approach motherhood today? These are the kinds of stories we aim to capture, explore, and dig into in this podcast series. This is a podcast featuring real moms, telling their own stories and being their most vulnerable, uncensored selves. Hosted by the founder of the boundary-pushing motherhood platform Not Safe For Mom Group, and a mother of two Alexis Barad-Cutler. Sign up for our newsletter to never miss your Not Safe for Mom Group updates: www.notsafeformomgroup.com/newsletter-podcast
Episodes
14 episodes
"I'm Burnt The F Out With Thinking About My Motherhood": With writer Sara Peterson
Writer, author, and mom of three Sara Peterson has been down all the instagram wormholes and has lived to tell about it. On this episode, your host Alexis , and Sara have a super candid conversation on the ways in which performative mo...
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Episode 6
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1:00:58
From Sex and Porn Addiction to Class Mom with Author Erica Garza
The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity has estimated that six to eight percent of Americans, and approximately one in six women struggle with an addiction to pornography and sex. (Many women with sex addiction engage in cas...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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47:19
The Unfathomable Grief of Losing A Child to Pediatric Cancer
Keren Keyzner's daughter Lily was diagnosed with neuroblastoma on the evening of September 16, 2018, at 2.5 years of age. Neuroblastoma is an extremely rare form of cancer, with only about 700 new cases diagnosed every year in the United States...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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51:21
I'm Breaking the Cycle of My Family's Generational Trauma
Today we have writer, and coach Jenn M. Choi on the podcast, who shares with us her story of surviving the deaths of both of her immigrant parents (on top of going through a huge life change) and how that pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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54:45
I Am an Addict in Recovery: Sobriety in Motherhood
"I could tell you maybe two people at my son's school know, and this is the crazy thing, maybe even more because I have been around people in those times I was using and you just don't think you look drunk. You did this, you forgot lunch, y...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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44:56
"Mothering as Social Change": A Conversation with author Angela Garbes
SEASON 2 PREMIERE! Today we are talking with award-winning author Angela Garbes, of LIKE A MOTHER: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, and the just-released ESSEN...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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59:04
Why We Need to Talk About Puberty Early
Puberty doesn't start with periods. Our culture's discomfort around puberty often leads us to wait for conversations about puberty until 12 or 13. But many kids start undergoing the body changes that precede menstruation at much younger ages. A...
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Life After Stillbirth: "The Grief Becomes Less All-Encompassing"
We don't talk about stillbirth and infant loss enough because to acknowledge that they happen is to acknowledge that they could happen to US. We protect ourselves from these stories, which are OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES, to further separate someone...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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47:26
Confessions of a Female Rabbi: "Everything Felt Torn Out From Under Me"
When life gets super challenging, we often look towards leaders for guidance -- whether it's a political leader, religious leader, community or group leader, or parent. But what happens when the leader doesn't feel like they can lead? What happ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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52:32
First I Went Through the Surrogacy Process; Then I Helped Legalize It
When her doctor presented gestational surrogacy (i.e. where the parent - not surrogate - provides own egg for fertilization) as an option for Alexis Cirel, it felt, at first, like defeat. Not only was it something she hadn't ever anticipated, s...
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Episode 5
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49:25
My Story of Sexual Assault Needed A Retelling
Today's guest suffered one of the worst things one can imagine happening to a person as a child, and lived with this secret well into adulthood. The Christine Blasey Ford hearings were a catalyst for the memories and flashbacks coming back to h...
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Episode 4
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49:37
My Life as an Influencer Masked My Abusive Childhood
How do you learn how to mother when you grew up "basically, without parents?" Our anonymous guest talks about growing up as an autistic woman with parent figures who were detached at best, and physically and emotionally abusive at worst; and ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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59:02
"I Begged For Help and No One Listened": Mothering Through Mental Illness
For this week's guest, living with several undiagnosed mental illnesses her entire life wreaked havoc on her childhood, her relationship with her family, and her own self view. Nothing could have prepared her, however, for how the near-fatal bl...
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Episode 2
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53:23
My Ex's Sinister Secret: A New Mom's Shocking Discovery
If you learned something absolutely shocking about your partner that you never would have imagined, how would you react? Would you stay and support them? How "bad" would it have to be for you to decide to leave? Today's guest shares her almost-...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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