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Harvesting U: A Momma Community

19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

Hosted by two mommas Aubrey and Theresa, Harvesting U is harvesting momma unity through support, strategies, kindness, and real-life stories to uplift and empower mommas to live big and lover bigger through all of the ups-and-downs of life's journey. We're here for you, and we'd love to hear from you!

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What is Harvesting U? What is a Mom community?

March 10, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutes - 25.3 MB

Harvesting U is a podcast and a community of mommas striving to live big and love bigger. It's a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger. Friends Aubrey and Theresa created Harvesting U as a supportive and judgment-free network of mommas who help each other to assess and develop our interests, talents, and goals. The podcast is unscripted and unfiltered, and each episode contains a topic that is relatable for today's busy mommas. Du...

How to deal with feeling under pressure

March 03, 2022 01:00 - 31 minutes - 27.8 MB

Feeling under pressure from family, work, friends, home, and community? Yeah, we got that.  Today we're talking about feeling like we're swimming upstream, and how we get through these periods in our adult lives without completely stressing out and hiding under the covers (everyday).  Find out a few techniques for dealing with the overwhelming stress, and find comfort from relatable momma stories about parenting, working, and trying to carve out time for ourselves so we don't lose our sanit...

Love languages and improving family communication

February 24, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 32.5 MB

Have you ever thought about your love language? How do you show love? How do you best receive love? Is it through words of affirmation, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch, or acts of kindess? Knowing your love language helps build a stronger bridge of communication with others, and knowing your partner’s love language can help build trust and connectedness.  In this episode, Aubrey and Theresa discuss love languages, how to use that knowlegde to better communicate with kids, and ...

Kids Transitioning into Teenagers

February 17, 2022 01:00 - 41 minutes - 36.6 MB

Our kids are growing up, and asserting independence appropriately and inappropriately (at times). It takes patience and understanding, plus a whole pile of parenting tools and teamwork to get through this challenging years.  As our kids feel like they are grown-up 'enough' to know it all, they also need us in so many ways, too. It's a struggle on both sides.  In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa talk about a few ways they are dealing with this transition and strategies that are helping ...

Breaking out of the Mundane

February 10, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MB

Some days life can feel like our own personal 'Groundhog Day.' When life becomes mundane, it's time for a change.  How do we bring ourselves back from the mundane? On this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey and Theresa talk about a few ways they shake off the habitual and create little changes to set a different mood in the everyday. Making easy small changes like what we wear and where we sit everyday, can disrupt the monotony of routine and help bring new inspiration and energy into our world...

'Broken Open' our habits and become friends with ourselves

February 03, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

Have you started questioning your hard-worn habits? Trying to figure out how to get closer to your goal life? This conversation is for you.  During this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey shares the meaning and motivation behind writing 'Broken Open.' It's a guide book to assessing habits, choices, and relationships. While it's not about her life, she includes some examples throughout to keep her readers knowing that she is on the path with them. She even includes a six-week soul self challenge...

Defusing the drama

January 27, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

Are you finding it harder to avoid the drama lately? Seems like it's everywhere--at the grocery store, on airplanes, at school meetings, on social media, within extended families, and even with our own kids. How can we protect our good mood and stay centered when there is so much conflict and drama out there? Aubrey and Theresa share a few strategies to dealing with the drama, and ways to navigate the tension surrounding hyped-up conflict. And they discuss how they are defusing the teenage...

Harvesting U: Supportive Partners

January 20, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 61 MB

Being a supportive partner isn't always easy. It takes patience, effort, intention, and action to be supportive and allow our loved ones the space to support us back, too.  In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa are talking about how we've learned lessons along the way of becoming supportive partners through many years of changes and evolutions of our needs, our family structures, and our quirks. Becoming a good partner means giving our loved one the space to become who they desire and sup...

Extraordinary Momma Spotlight: Rebecca

January 13, 2022 01:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MB

Meet Rebecca. She is an extraordinary Momma. We're spotlighting her as a momma who goes way beyond the ordinary in her day-to-day momming.  As a mom of three, it may look like she is doing the typical momma work that we all are familiar. But, she has a big extra on her plate as one of her children has special needs. With Autism, ADHD, and Sturge-Weber syndrome, her daughter also experiences regular seizures which caused her to drown in a pool. She was revived and Rebecca's mission for a serv...

Digging in and dealing with ODD and other tough stuff

January 06, 2022 01:00 - 28 minutes - 25.5 MB

Digging in is all about finding the patience and courage to make ‘it’ happen.  But how can we trudge through the tough stuff?  In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa get real about the challenges they face and how they dig in to find strength, understanding, and commitment to try their best to flourish through the rough spots of being a momma, a partner, and a friend.  How do we deal with those 5 seconds of shame when we are at our worst? Whether no one is looking or if it's caught on ca...

Setting daily intentions & New Year's resolutions

December 23, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MB

Purpose can be a trigger word for a lot of people, as it's difficult to truly know our purpose in life. But living in daily purpose through intention is a realistic goal and attainable.  A daily intention can be super simple like drink more water, check in with my partner, put my phone away when I'm talking with a friend, go for a walk after dinner, or let myself off the hook for not being more 'ready' for an event or a holiday celebration. In this episode, momma-friends Aubrey and Theresa ...

Hitting the Holiday Stress

December 16, 2021 01:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MB

How do we find our holiday joy? And what do we aren't feeling the holiday magic? No matter the challenges facing us, our Harvesting U mojo is to keep calm, and look for new ways that fit within the parameters of finance, time, resources, and pandemic restrictions.  Not everything has to be perfect and if it doesn't feel right, don’t force a holiday tradition. It's not the action that makes the holiday, it's the intention and connection that fills us up.  Join us for our honest conversation...

Raising Challenging Kids

December 09, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 37.7 MB

It's not easy raising a challenging kid. Sometimes it takes extra patience and a few handy strategies to find our way as parents through the murky waters of behavioral issues and frustrating meltdowns over seemingly everyday events.  In this episode, Theresa shares her momma journey raising a tough child whose behavior has led to many-a-phone-call from school and a long list of interventions and attempts to navigate a way through it. While knowing that the world won't bend to her son's stron...

Dealing with Devastating Illness

December 02, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Co-hosts Aubrey and Theresa are getting real about severe illness and sharing what we do to manage the everyday, navigate surprises that bring us to our knees, and continue to find strength to endure and harvest our positivity and love through it all. We recorded this episode shortly after Theresa suffered an attack, and stopped breathing while driving home from dropping her son off at school. This is real life, and we hope our honest discussion helps you.  Tune in for new episodes of Harve...

Dealing with conditional love

November 25, 2021 01:00 - 41 minutes - 37.1 MB

How can we spot conditional love? And what can we do about it? Are you dreading a Thanksgiving get-together? Maybe it’s time for a gut-check on conditional love. In this Harvesting U podcast, Theresa and Aubrey have an honest unfiltered conversation about unconditional love and share personal stories that are both heart-filling and heartbreaking.  “Anything that is a struggle to your mental health, you do not have to do. You do not have to engage in.” Unconditional love isn’t always perf...

How to deal with anxiety hangovers

November 18, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 39.5 MB

Have you ever had an anxiety hangover? 😵‍💫 After getting through a stressful event, there’s that residual feeling of still being off-balance. How can we better manage this kind of hangover? Aubrey and Theresa dive into the cause of anxiety hangovers, offer strategies and tips, and breakdown Theresa’s real-life anxiety hangover she was dealing with during this chat. Live big and love bigger. 💫

How can we find and become supportive friends?

November 11, 2021 01:00 - 40 minutes - 36 MB

On today's episode, we're talking about how to be a supportive friend. Showing up and being supportive is essential in authentic friendships. But how do we know how to be supportive, and what are the warning signs when it's time to pull back from a friendship that isn't working? And how can we be a supportive momma and help our kids navigate their relationships? Theresa and Aubrey breakdown the essentials of supportive friendships, why supporting each other on social media may not be enough...

Let's talk about what it's like to be a mom and how to create a tribe.

November 04, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutes - 14.5 MB

On today's episode, we're talking about what it's like becoming a mom, what it's like to be a momma, and why creating a tribe of supportive friends is important. A support network is essential in any momma's life. Whether you are a married mom, single mom, divorced mom, working mom, stay-at-home mom, new mom, caregiver mom, step-mom, grandma, auntie, single dad who fills that momma role, or just thinking about becoming a mom, a network of supportive family and friends can make a huge differe...

What is it like to be a mom and how can we create a tribe?

November 04, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutes - 14.5 MB

On today's episode, we're talking about what it's like becoming a mom, what it's like to be a momma, and why creating a tribe of supportive friends is important. A support network is essential in any momma's life. Whether you are a married mom, single mom, divorced mom, working mom, stay-at-home mom, new mom, caregiver mom, step-mom, grandma, auntie, single dad who fills that momma role, or just thinking about becoming a mom, a network of supportive family and friends can make a huge differe...

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