Finding Yourself in Motherhood
I am a life coach for mothers. I coach mothers who are struggling and feel overwhelmed in life while raising challenging kids. I help them find confidence and joy and set new goals to become better versions of themselves.
Episodes
81 episodes
Everything Is Working Out For Your Good
We're wired to label everything that happens to us — good, bad, disaster, blessing — often within seconds. But what if that instinct is exactly what keeps us anxious, reactive, and stuck? In this episode, I share two small sto...
Informative emotions
Today I discussed all the emotions I had surrounding sending my sons on missions. I talk about how we often resist the emotions that don't feel great and we don't allow them to teach us and help us grow. We also use our cell phones to avoid an ...
The Value of Money
Today I discussed several of the common thoughts we have around money. I talk about how these thoughts can keep us stuck and make it hard to have a good relationship with money. Two examples are "rich people are greedy" and "there is never enou...
Expectations vs Reality
Today I talk about expectations vs reality. I give two examples of going through something hard with two of my boys. I show how to close the gap between your expectations and reality in order to clean up the dirty pain that is unnecessary. It i...
On The Struggle Bus
Today I discuss how hard things happen in life. We often go through great lengths to try to prevent hard things from happening. I tell a story about a surrogate Mom refusing to have an abortion once she found out the baby she was carrying had a...
Summer Analysis
I'm back after a long summer break! Today I talked about how we often look to the past and judge how we showed up in life. I talked about how I felt like we had wasted a lot of time in July and how that thought just wasn't serving me. Once I ch...
Fixed or Growing: Lessons from Carol Dweck's Mindset
What if the biggest thing standing between you and the life you want isn't your talent, your circumstances, or your past — but the way you think about your own abilities?In this episode, we dive into some of the most powerful id...
Mother's Day thoughts
Today's episode focused on some of my thoughts surrounding Mother's Day. I first discuss how Mother's Day can be tricky especially for people who don't feel like they have a good relationship with their own Mom. I give some ideas on some small ...
Stop Stealing From Your Own Joy
Are you a worrier? Do you find yourself mentally living in a future full of problems that haven't happened yet — and may never happen? In this episode, we're talking about the very important difference between worrying about the future an...
Judging Your Thoughts Isn't Self Awareness — It's Self Sabotage
Have you ever caught yourself in a thought and immediately decided it meant something was wrong with you? In this episode, we're talking about one of the most common ways women misuse the CTFAR model — and it's not what you'd expect. Instead of...
Miracles and Murmuring
"In the Bible the Israelites witnessed miracle after miracle — and still they complained. Sound familiar? In this episode, we're talking about why we murmur, how it keeps us stuck, and some things you can do to break the habit and start living ...
Stop Feeling Left Out
Have you ever found out about plans you weren't included in and felt that familiar sting? Being left out hurts — but it doesn't have to define you. In this episode, we're breaking down five practical things you can do to feel more included in y...
Neutral Circumstances
Today I talked about a few experiences I've had recently that had me thinking about circumstances. I share how I received a compliment and how it seemed like an automatic reaction to feel happy but when I slowed it down, I realized it was a cho...
How To Feel Better, Part Two
I'm back with three more powerful tools to help you feel better from the inside out! First, we'll talk about the impact of the word "should" — why it quietly creates guilt, shame, and resentment, and what happens when you sta...
How To Feel Better, Part One
Feeling better isn't just about thinking positive thoughts — it's about learning how to work with your mind instead of against it. In this episode, we dive into three foundational tools to help you improve your emotional well-bei...
Personality, Unpacked
What if everything you've ever believed about your personality isn't actually a fact — it's just a thought you've never questioned? In this episode, we're diving deep into what personality really is, where it comes from, and why so many o...
Wrong Decisions
In this episode I discuss the idea of making wrong decisions. We often argue with reality when we label a decision as the wrong decision and wish we could go back and change the past. Instead we can learn from the decisions we have made and sto...
Who Wrote That Manual Anyway?
We all know the relief of cracking open a manual (or going to the YouTube or AI) and finding the fix you need to something that wasn't work correctly — but what happens when we start expecting the people in our lives to come with one too? In th...
Are You At War With Yourself?
When someone hurts us deeply, we often think the hardest part is forgiving them. But what if the real struggle is something else entirely? In this episode, we explore the shame-blame cycle that keeps us stuck — and why forgiving yourself might ...
Letting Go: The Sheep, the Sliver, and the Grudge
We all know holding grudges hurts us more than anyone else, so why is it so hard to let them go? In this episode, I explore the paradox of grudges through two powerful metaphors: sheep resisting being sheared even though they'll feel so much li...
Agency: Taking Back Your Power
Ready to stop giving your power away? This week I'm reteaching you the CTFAR model—a simple but powerful tool that shows you exactly how you're surrendering your agency and how to reclaim it.Through four relatable scenarios (a mother-in-...
Agency-The Gift We Fought For and Give Away Daily
A war was fought in heaven over your agency. People throughout history have died for freedom and choice. Yet we give our agency away every day through grudges and blame. Discover what agency really means, why it's sacred, and how you might be s...
Confidence through God's Love
In today's episode, I discuss the story in the Book of Mormon about the tree of life and how the fruit of the tree represents the love of God. The scriptures describe it as the "most desirable above all things" and the "most joyous to the soul....
Permission To Forgive Yourself
Have you ever struggled to believe that Christ's Atonement truly covers your mistakes? While we know intellectually that "infinite means infinite," applying forgiveness to ourselves can feel impossible—especially when our brains convin...
Stop Judging Your Thoughts and Get Curious
Once you understand that your thoughts are optional and create your emotions, it's tempting to think you should just change every thought that causes negative feelings. But when we struggle to change certain thoughts, we often judge ourselves—l...