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The Motherhood Mentor
Welcome to The Motherhood Mentor Podcast your go-to resource for moms seeking holistic healing and transformation. Hosted by mind-body somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach Becca Dollard.
Join us as we explore the transformative power of somatic healing, offering practical tools and strategies to help you navigate overwhelm, burnout, and stress. Through insightful conversations, empowering stories, and expert guidance, you'll discover how to cultivate resilience, reclaim balance, and thrive in every aspect of your life while still feeling permission to be a human. Are you a woman who is building a business while raising babies who refuses to burnout? These are conversations and support for you.
We believe in the power of vulnerability, connection, and self-discovery, and our goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and valued.
Whether you're juggling career, family, or personal growth, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic healing and growth all while normalizing the ups and downs, the messy and the magic, and the wild ride of this season of motherhood.
Your host:
Becca is a mom of two, married for 14years to her husband Jay living in Colorado. She is a certified somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach to high functioning moms. She works with women who are navigating raising babies, building businesses, and prioritizing their own wellbeing and healing. She understands the unique challenges of navigating being fully present in motherhood while also wanting to be wildly creative and ambitious in her work. The Motherhood Mentor serves and supports moms through 1:1 coaching, in person community, and weekend retreats.
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Website: https://www.the-motherhood-mentor.com/
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Episodes
88 episodes
The Trend of Going No Contact: The Messy Reality of Family Boundaries
You can love your parents, appreciate what they sacrificed, and still feel deeply impacted by the relationship.In this episode of the Motherhood Mentor Podcast, we talk about the messy middle between full contact and no contact with pare...
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Struggling with Boundaries? The Nuanced Maybe Based on Your Capacity
Most advice about boundaries says: “If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no.” But most of real life doesn't look or feel like that. In this episode, we talk about why boundaries aren’t actually black and whit...
How Breathwork Resets a Stressed Nervous System
For many moms, that quiet “I’m fine” isn’t actually fine. It’s a nervous system pattern of holding it all together under bracing and control. When you’re the one holding everything together - the schedules, the emotions, the invisib...
Why High Achievers Burn Out Quietly: When Pouring from an Empty Cup is Your Coping Strategy
You don’t usually see a high-functioning woman fall apart in a dramatic way. It happens quietly. Subtly. Responsibly. To the point where everything still looks fine… but inside, something feels off.If you’re stil...
The Lonely Side of Being the Strong One (For High-Functioning Moms)
You’re the strong one. The capable one. The one everyone relies on.You hold the emotional tone of your home, keep things moving, and rarely drop the ball. But underneath it all? You feel braced, tired, and more alone than you want to adm...
How and why to take a screen Detox with Nina Caviggiola
Less screen time, more life. Join Rebecca and Nina (Balkanina)If you’re arguing about devices more than you want to admit and you feel like tech is shaping your family more than you are, this episode is for you.This conversat...
Is This Growth or Am I Falling Apart? The discomfort of growing pains
Welcome to this mini episode where we name the “good discomfort” of growth and why trying to fix it too soon blocks expansion. We share how embodiment, not mindset alone, helps hold paradox—being content and still wanting more—while you move be...
Parenting Big Feelings & Strong Wills With Loving Boundaries with Mary Van Geffen
Do you have a strong-willed, big-feeling, highly sensitive child who feels like “too much”?Parenting the “Spicy” Child: Strong-Willed Kids, Big Feelings, and Connection-Based DisciplineParenting a strong-willed, big-feeling child ...
When It’s Never Enough: Healing the High-Achiever Nervous System
Let's explore how to stay hungry for growth without missing the life you already built. We share practical ways to feel content now while nurturing ambition for your body, marriage, work, and motherhood.• naming the gap obsession and it...
From Overhaul To Integrity: A Gentle Steady New Year
Forget the sprint. We’re starting the year steady, grounded, and honest about capacity. Instead of chasing a dazzling future self, we look at what’s here now- what worked, what didn’t, and how to build change that outlasts a January dopamine hi...
When Safety Returns, Who Are You? Chonda Costin on Survival, Burnout, and Redefining Success
What if survival mode saved your life, and then quietly held you back once you were safe? That's the tension we unpack with coach, veteran, and mother of five Chonda Costin, whose journey from domestic violence recovery to military service to p...
Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn- Your bodies responses to triggers and threats
Our bodies have unconscious patterns of responding to perceived threats that happen without conscious control, ranging from simple to complex defensive reactions.• Fight response involves mobilizing energy against a threat with aggressiv...
The Real Reason 'Just Communicate' Doesn't Work with Michelle McDonald: Enneagram Instincts and Your Nervous System
What if the thing sabotaging your communication isn't your words, but your body's stuck survival strategy just trying to keep you safe? We go deep with Enneagram coach Michelle McDonald to explore the instinct layer of enneagram-self-preservati...
5 minute morning meditation- Orienting
We guide a short morning practice to center attention, reclaim energy, and choose how to move through the day with grace and clarity. Gratitude, body awareness, and gentle course-correction help build presence without pressure.• orienti...
Somatic Boundaries Meditation
We guide a grounded practice to meet your emotions, feel where you end and others begin, and build flexible boundaries that protect your energy while keeping connection possible. Through imagery, breath, and simple prompts, you restore right di...
Cyclical Living with Camille Leek: Restoring Ambition Through Seasons, Boundaries, and Somatics
Burnout doesn't have to be the cost of ambition. In this conversation with repeat guest and facilitator Camille Leek, we explore somatic healing and cyclical living for entrepreneurs balancing work and motherhood. Learn how to restore sustainab...
5 minute morning meditation- grounding and presence
We guide a short morning practice to ground your body, soften your breath, and let the earth hold what’s too heavy so you can meet the day with steadiness. The session blends breathwork, body scan, orientation to time and place, and a gentle re...
Somatic Body Scan Meditation
We guide a slow body scan that builds safety, sensation, and self-trust by orienting to the room, mapping the body from head to toes, and using breath and imagery to settle the nervous system. We close by reorienting eyes open, reclaiming energ...
The Courage to Change When Success No Longer Lights You Up
Success once meant strategy, systems, and performance. Now, it means truth, alignment, and peace.This episode with Kristine Munro, founder of Illume Collective,...
Understanding and Healing Attachment Styles with therapist Hannah Dorsher
What if secure attachment isn’t about perfect parenting-but about steady leadership, honest repair, and a strong nervous system you can share with your kids?In this conversation, therapist and mom of three Hannah Dorscher joins Be...
When Success Hurts: Holding Business, Motherhood, and the Truth You Don’t Post
Motherhood and business can both be holy and hard. I often feel the very real tension between deeply caring about and wanting multiple things in the same season, and also butting up against my capacity and things outside my control. This ...
Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and Others and What We Get Wrong About People We Love the Most with Katie Whitlock
We all have patterns that feel like personality, but are actually protection.In this powerful conversation, Becca is joined by Enneagram teacher Katie Whitlock for a grounded, compassionate look at how the Enneagram helps us see ourselv...
Intrusive Thoughts, Postpartum Struggles, and Permission to Breathe with Dr. Kim Murray
Motherhood will stretch you in ways you never imagined, but you don’t have to face it alone. In this raw conversation with Dr. Kim Murray, licensed marriage & family therapist and perinatal mental health specialist, we break open the...
Beyond Words: The Embodied Power of Somatic Healing with Andrew Rosenstock
What happens when healing moves beyond thinking and into feeling? In this rich conversation, Becca sits down with somatic practitioner Andrew Rosenstock to explore the profound world of embodied healing—the kind that words can’t quite ca...
You Won't Stop People Pleasing Until Your Body Knows It's Not Prey
Ever found yourself smiling and agreeing to something, only to walk away wishing you had said no? Do you wonder why you keep accidentally ending up resentful or burnt out? You wonder why boundaries and conflict feel like you could die? That’s n...