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HERself

254 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings

As women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. But your life isn't supposed to look like hers! Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose. Amy and Abby get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face. Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for HERself.

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223. Bring on the Men: Vasectomies, Intimacy, Sharing the Load - Oh My!

March 04, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB

You guys are in for a treat today! Our husbands, Colin and Drew, are back on the show. We took questions from this community on things that you’re struggling with with your partners right now. We’ve had Colin and Drew on the show before but it has been a while. Most of the episodes that they’ve been on have been focused on the years when our kids were babies. But today it is great to have them back on now that our kids are a little older, we have new challenges and victories we’ve gone throu...

222. The First Steps to Making a Career Change with Madelyn Mackie

February 26, 2024 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MB

We know many people in this community are looking for a career transition. That is why we are so excited to have our first ever career coach on the show today. Madelyn Mackie is a certified career management coach and she walks us through everything from how to build your resume, to how to network, and also how to get back into the workforce if you’ve been away for a while. Making a career change is a big decision and Madelyn starts off by sharing how common this shift is for women these da...

221. Jessica Pan on Making Friendships as an Introvert

February 19, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB

Today’s conversation has been a long time coming because it is something that we’ve talked a lot about in the past but we’ve never really taken the time to fully dive in on this subject. And that’s the idea of how an introvert can make adult friendships. Our guest, Jessica Pan, is a journalist and the author of the book Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come. She is also a self-proclaimed introvert who took a year of her life to explore what being more extroverted might be like. If you too a...

220. How to Find Your Confidence + Our Relationship with Alcohol

February 12, 2024 09:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

We get asked about today’s topic a lot; confidence. We both believe it is something you build, it ebbs and flows, you may have a lot of it in one area and may need to work on it in another. In this episode, we cover how we’ve built our own confidence in certain areas of our lives. Career confidence is where we start off. Even if you are good at something, have a degree in it, have done it for a long time, and maybe you even love it - that doesn’t mean you have to stay stuck in that job fore...

219. Jeanelle Teves on Being a Working Parent Both Inside and Outside the Home

February 05, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MB

Today’s guest, Jeanelle Teves, is the Chief Commercial Officer of Bugaboo. She is also a speaker, a wife, and a mom of two kids; ages three and six. Jeanelle is crushing it in corporate America and has a stay at home partner. We cover both of these topics in our interview and we touch on confidence. Jeanelle shares how she built her own and how she fully embodies it. We know lots of our listeners have times in their lives where they contemplate a career move. Maybe you’ve thought about leav...

218. Support for Special Needs Parents

January 29, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

We believe that whether you are a parent of a child with a disability, or not, it is important to open up this conversation and learn the terms and language surrounding kids with extra needs. Today, we sat down with our long time friend, Pam Beron, to discuss parenting a child with a disability or supporting a friend or loved one who just received this type of diagnosis for their child. Pam has 14 years of experience teaching special education in the classroom and has since transitioned to ...

218. Pam Beron With Support for Special Needs Parents

January 29, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

We believe that whether you are a parent of a child with a disability, or not, it is important to open up this conversation and learn the terms and language surrounding kids with extra needs. Today, we sat down with our long time friend, Pam Beron, to discuss parenting a child with a disability or supporting a friend or loved one who just received this type of diagnosis for their child. Pam has 14 years of experience teaching special education in the classroom and has since transitioned to ...

217. Erica Neuman on How to Talk to Your Kids About Money

January 22, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

Abby chats solo this week with Erica Neuman, a certified public accountant who specializes in how to talk to your kids about money. As a mom herself, Erica’s goal is to make finances approachable and to show young people the value of financial education. She’s also a wife and an accounting professor with over 12 years of experience. We cover the hot topic of chores. Should we have our kids do them and if so, should we pay them for their work? What about talking about finances in front of ou...

216. Vibe Check This Year

January 15, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB

This episode is all about mindsets and other things that are inspiring us as we head into the new year. There is something about a fresh start and the passing of another year that allows us to gain some fresh perspective. Today we are asking ourselves what areas we feel like could use some changes and what areas of our lives feel really good? We both share a couple of words that we are focusing on this year. The first one being bold and how we can shift our perspective from what do others t...

215. Elisabeth Emmerich on the Power of Play Based Therapy with Children

January 08, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MB

Our friend, Elisabeth Emmerich, is on the show today. She is a mom of three, a licensed therapist, and a registered play therapist. We found this conversation exceedingly interesting because Elisabeth really shares ways we can support our children’s mental health. And by no surprise, we learned that our mental health is directly connected to our children’s mental health. It can be tough to tell when the right time is to seek out extra help for your kiddo. Elisabeth shares some signs to watc...

214. Unlocking the Secrets of Women's Health with Christine Yu

January 01, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

We are sitting down with Christine Yu this week and she is talking with us about the science behind women’s health and how it relates to each of us as moms who want to be healthy examples for our children. Christine is the author of Up to Speed: The GroundBreaking Science of Women Athletes and she has a masters degree from Harvard University. Christine is also a mom and she shares real life examples of the changes that her body has gone through and the mindset shifts she has had to make whe...

213. Greatest Hits: HERself Expert: Kristin Neff on Self Compassion and Calming Your Mean Inner Critic

December 25, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

We want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. As we head into the New Year, this Greatest Hits episode with Kristin Neff is such an important one. That mean inner critic that we all have can speak really loudly at times. Sometimes we even start to believe that voice. During this episode Kristin encourages us to think past that mean voice and instead to think about what we are truly saying. We all know we should speak to ourselves kindly. But when we make a mistak...

212. What to Do When Your Partner is in a Bad Mood

December 18, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

Today’s topic idea came from a friend of ours. She explained that her partner is going through a rough stretch at work and it’s trickling into their home life. She was wondering how she can help him and how she can make sure this issue is not taken out on their kids. We decided to dedicate an entire episode to what happens if one of the two of you has a tough stretch of life. We give real life examples from both ourselves and our partners. Both of us have been there. We know what it’s like ...

211. What It's Like Having a Traveling Spouse

December 11, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

This is a special episode that was originally recorded for the other podcast that Amy & I host; Pursuing HER Purpose. I (Abby) get behind the microphone with our other co-found of that business, Kat Herro, and together we share what it’s like to have a traveling spouse. May you are the traveling one or may it’s your partner, either way this episode is going to fill you with so much insight into what this lifestyle is all about.  We go through how often Kat and I’s partners are gone, what th...

210. Real Talk: Money and Personal Finance with Jamila Souffrant

December 04, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB

Jamila Souffrant, from Journey to Launch, is on the podcast today. We’ve had financial experts on the show before and we know these types of episodes always hit! But we feel that you’ll especially vibe with Jamila. She is a mom of three, a money coach, a podcast host, and a certified financial education instructor. Her own journey with money and how she too is learning along the way is so relatable. There are different ways to approach your finances. Jamila explains that during different st...

209. Dr. Sumi on Seeing Rest as Being Productive

November 27, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

We have Dr. Sumi Raghavan on the show today. If you’ve heard of Dr. Becky Kennedy, who has been on the show before, Dr. Sumi consults for her parenting company. She also collaborates with other psychologists who support women and mothers. Throughout this interview Dr. Sumi does such a great job of empowering our listeners to feel confident and break free from mom guilt. She lets us know that if a system isn’t working for us, it’s not our fault. Instead, she gives us techniques we can use to...

208. Erin & Stephen on The Hardest Decisions Couples Make (Adding Another Baby, Conflict, and Self-Awareness)

November 20, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MB

We are sharing the microphone with a married couple who also happen to be couples counselors specifically for parents. Erin and Stephen Mitchell join us today to talk about the tough decisions we have to make as parents, starting with do we want to have more kids? They go into their own story on this very subject and share the struggles they had to overcome to come to a final decision. Not only do they bring the humanity behind therapy, but also with Stephen’s PhD in medical family therapy a...

207. Stressed About the Holidays? Listen to This!

November 13, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

Many of us are craving our own holiday traditions yet we are trying to please our parents at the same time. When is it our turn to enjoy the holidays? We can’t be expending all our energy into others and expect there to be time to dedicate to our own families. Today we hope you leave this episode feeling inspired, with some new strategies to try this holiday season, and definitely with some solidarity. We understand that juggling the holidays is complicated. It’s so easy to say, “set a boun...

206. Jamie Scrimgeour - An Episode for Step Moms and Those Who Support Them

November 06, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB

This episode is all about step families, blended families and how to deal with exes. Even if that’s not your current situation, opening your eyes to the challenges that stepparents face is really important. And that’s exactly what today’s guest, Jamie Scrimgeor, helps us do.  Jamie has a background in psychology and social service work. She is now a certified life coach who specializes in step family dynamics. Jamie also hosts her own podcast, is a content and community creator, she’s a wif...

205. Where Therapy and Interior Design Meet with Anita Yokota

October 30, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MB

Did you know that your physical space can help you with your mental health journey? Today we are speaking with Anita Yokota, former mental health therapist turned interior designer. Anita shares her story of how practicing as a marriage and family therapist for over 20 years before pivoting her career into interior design allowed her to realize the importance of how your space feels. She is also the author of the best selling book Home Therapy. Do you feel insecure about your home? Are you ...

204. Lydia Fenet - The Confidence Episode

October 23, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB

Do you lack confidence from time to time? Let us introduce you to Lydia Fenet. She is the world’s leading charity auctioneer and has single handedly raised over one billion dollars for over 800 different organizations and broken down countless barriers for women in our industry. In this episode Lydia teaches us how to step into our own confidence by focusing on the present. As moms we are forced to make so many decisions and with all of the options we have, we can struggle with the choices ...

203. Supporting Your Health Goals with Jessica Kuchnia

October 16, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Did you know that there are more tools to measure your health progress than just a scale? Today, Jessica Kuchnia, from DexaFit Madison is here to explain to us what a DEXA scan is and what all it measures. We first met Jess when we walked into her business for our own scans. We all share the same passion for all things health, fitness, nutrition, and longevity. It can be so hard not to compare ourselves to other women. Especially in this social media era we are living in. Jess explains why ...

202. Dr. Danielle Lane Answers Your Questions on Fertility, Hormones, and Menstrual Cycles

October 09, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MB

Topics like fertility and menstrual cycles usually have a serious tone to them but our guest today, Dr. Danielle Lane has a way of bringing humor into these often stressful situations. Dr. Danielle is a board certified fertility specialist and you’ll learn why she has more information related to fertility issues than your Ob-Gyn might.  This episode covers everything from defining what a normal and abnormal menstrual cycle is to the difference between endometriosis and endometrial cancer. W...

201. Julie Menanno Dives Deep into Attachment Theory and Creating a Secure Relationship

October 02, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MB

Our conversation with Julie Menanno, therapist and mom of six, centers around secure and insecure relationships based on attachment styles. She educates us on what attachment theory is and what the different types of attachment styles are. Julie breaks down what happens when a couple has an argument and how to help get you back to the ultimate goal in any relationship: feeling safe. Do you wonder what attachment style you and your partner are? Julie walks us through how we can tell and what...

200. Whitney Casares on How To Stop Doing it All and Start Doing What Matters

September 25, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MB

We are excited to have Dr. Whitney Casares back on the show today. She was first on the show back in episode 87; HERself Expert: Dr. Whitney Casares Talks Working Motherhood and Silencing Your Inner Critic. Dr. Whitney is a maternal child health expert, a pediatrician, a mom of two; one child has ADHD and the other has autism. She’s also the author of the soon-to-be released book - Doing It All. Today we are talking about how we can make working motherhood better for ourselves. Dr. Whitney ...

199. Katie Taylor on Having Hard Conversations with Our Kids

September 18, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MB

We are discussing a topic we’ve never really talked about before. And that is how to have the really hard conversations with our kids. In this episode we cover topics like death, funerals, losing a pet, and what to do when our child has completely lost it at an appointment. Our guest, Katie Taylor, is a certified child life specialist with over 12 years of experience. She supports kids and their families as they navigate challenging life events. Today, Katie explains to us that having  hard...

198. Dr. Tracy D on Reconnecting With Your Partner

September 11, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

It is a well known fact that ⅔ of couples report decreases in their marital satisfaction in the first three years after having a child. Dr. Tracy Dalgleish is back on the show with us today to talk about what happens after those first three years. How do we reconnect with our partner?  Dr. Tracy is a mom to two kids, a wife, and has over 15 years of practice as a clinical psychologist. She gives us advice on how we can find the passion in our relationship again when we are in the thick of r...

197. Greatest Hits: Nedra Tawwab on Reclaiming Yourself Through Setting Boundaries

September 04, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

If you’re like us, we are celebrating Labor Day today! We are at the cabin, our kids are going back to school, and we’re getting together with friends. With everything we have going on we thought we would bring back one of our most listened to episodes with Nedra Tawwab all on boundaries. Nedra does such a good job of explaining boundaries, the need for them, and how to implement them into your life. Every time we listen to this episode we find ourselves saying “no” so much more often becau...

196. Getting Your Needs Met

August 28, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

The whole idea of this episode is that, as women, we have to ask for what we need. And this takes practice. We were raised by a generation of women who did not speak up when it came to getting their needs met which is leading us to a lot of resentment and burnout. But today we talk through a few situations that have happened in our lives recently where we have stood up and asked for what we need. We cover what getting our needs met from our partners looks like. We think they can read our mi...

195. The Secrets to Long-Term Partnership with Dr. John Van Epp

August 21, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB

It always feels good to get advice from those who are two steps ahead of us in life. And that’s exactly what today’s episode is. We have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. John Van Epp, developer of evidence based relationship programs. He also has his PhD in counseling and psychology. Dr. John Van Epp has over 44 years of marriage experience himself and has raised two daughters who are also in healthy marriages. You might even recognize one of his daughters; Dr. Morgan Cutlip, who has been on...

194. The Back to School Episode

August 14, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB

It’s almost back to school time! Since we both have soon to be second graders, almost kindergarteners, and younger kiddos, we thought we would do an episode all about this big transition! This time around we feel a little more experienced and open up to you about how the process of sending our littles off to school has gone for us. In this episode, we start off by sharing our thoughts on the end of the summer pressure we put on ourselves as moms. We might feel like we haven’t done enough. B...

193. Melinda Moyer on the Research Behind Raising Kind, Generous, Grateful Children

August 07, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

This conversation is chock-full of great information that we are so glad we get to insert into our own lives right away! Melinda Moyer, author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, is our guest today. She is also the mom of two, contributing editor to Scientific American Magazine, weekly contributor to The New York Times and a faculty member in the science, health, and environmental reporting program at NYU. We sometimes tend to think that talking about emotions too much with our kids m...

192. Dr. Emily Jamea on Keeping Sex and Intimacy Alive After Children

July 31, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

We are thrilled to have Dr. Emily Jamea on the podcast today. She sits down with us to talk all things sex and intimacy! Emily is a sex therapist who is also the mom of two. She also has a book coming out next year and hosts her own podcast: Love & Libido. It was important for us to talk to someone about this topic who was a mom because we know Emily truly understands the ebbs and flows that come with intimacy in parenthood. Sex is often the first thing that gets dropped by couples when lif...

191. The Episode Every Woman Needs: Let's Talk About Your Sleep with Dr. Shelby Harris

July 24, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB

We hear it so often when we are about to become mother’s for the first time, “Oh, you’re not going to get any sleep!” But the problem is there’s not a plan in place for how the mom’s sleep is actually going to happen. And we think this is something that needs to be talked about more! Today we have Dr. Shelby Harris on the show. She is a mom, a clinical psychologist, and is board certified in behavioral sleep medicine by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. We are absolutely obsessed with...

190. Dr. Morgan Cutlip on How to Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself

July 17, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Dr. Morgan Cutlip is back on the show today. She first joined us for episode 162. Today we are focusing on how we take care of ourselves as mothers; how do we feel good inside motherhood? So many of her answers spoke directly to both of us. In her upcoming book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself, Dr. Morgan explains three core concepts moms face. She chats with us about these concepts including what we can do to help ourselves with the conflict of sacrificing our own identities in moth...

189. Denaye Barahona on Simplifying Your Family Routines

July 10, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

If you’ve been wanting to minimize the clutter and simplify your life, we have a podcast episode that’s going to hit today! We are speaking with Denaye Barahona who has her Ph.D. in child development, is a licensed clinical social worker, and a mom of two.  She shares her own journey when it comes to decluttering and simplifying her life. Denaye brings in the research side of things to help coach parents to adjust and eliminate the shame around feeling inadequate as a parent when you can’t ...

188. Let's Catch Up: Your Questions Answered

July 03, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

We know that many of you might be in vacation mode this week due to the Fourth of July holiday so we thought we would do a more casual episode. We are answering your questions that you submitted via Instagram and we have not seen these questions beforehand so we are answering off the cusp! We talk about whether or not each of us takes naps and if the nutrition changes we have made have had an effect on how tired we get throughout the day. Things get a little spicy when we share what our fav...

187. Dr. Traci Baxley on How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded, Kids

June 26, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

Are your kids starting to ask the really difficult questions especially when it comes to race? Then today’s episode is going to be a great one for you to learn from. Our guest, Dr. Traci Baxley is a cultural and race identity coach and she supports families in creating a safe place to have these types of conversations. Dr. Traci approaches all of the subjects we cover in a non-judgmental way. She explains how being an educator in the classroom for years and being a parent of five children h...

186. Liz Fosslien Normalizing the Full Range of Emotions in Motherhood

June 19, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

Oftentimes as parents we focus so much on our kid’s emotions that we forget to give ourselves grace in this area. Today’s guest, Liz Fosslien is an emotions expert, an illustrator, and best-selling author of two books; No Hard Feelings and Big Feelings. Liz explains why it is so hard for us as adults to focus on our own emotional needs. She also talks about why demonstrating our emotions to our children is so important and why editing them all out isn’t a good idea. Liz touches on the touch...

185. Peaceful Parenting: Getting on the Same Team as Your Child with @destini.ann

June 12, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MB

Destini Ann Davis is our guest today. She is a parenting coach, a working mom, and the author of Very Intentional Parenting: How to Raise Empowered Kids. She approaches parenting in a peaceful manner. Today, she talks with us about what this means and explains it in a way that we are all on the same team and we’re all trying to figure things out together. Destini focuses on the energy that we can bring to parenting to really help everyone be more positive and peaceful and in return, we can ...

184. Dr. Lisa Damour on Raising Kind, Respectful Adolescents (Starting When They're Little)

June 05, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

We are bringing you something we’ve never really spoken about in the past. We are talking about adolescents and teenagers. We cover really hot topics including when it’s appropriate to give your child a cell phone. Our guest is Dr. Lisa Damour. She is a mom of two daughters, a psychologist, and the author of three New York Times best selling books that help parents untangle family life. Dr. Lisa answers our questions on when we should start laying the groundwork with our children so that th...

183. The Episode Every Couple Needs

May 29, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

The Dude Therapist is back with us today! We have Eli Weinstein on again, this time to focus on communication and conflict in relationships. This is a real conversation of what it’s like to be in a long term relationship with kids. There are challenges that come up and figuring out how to work through these and stay on the same page is so crucial. Eli walks us through how couples that stay together deal with conflict. He touches on how to deal with heated issues when kids are in the room an...

182. Eli Weinstein with a Male's Perspective on Partnership After Kids and Sharing the Mental Load

May 22, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MB

We are shaking things up today by bringing you a male voice from the therapy, personal development, relationship, and parenting space. Our guest, Eli Weinstein, is a Dad of two and a psychotherapist that isn’t afraid to give it to people straight. He has an honest, blunt, but always kind style. Eli has been working as a therapist for over eight years and shares some of the struggles he has faced since becoming a Dad. Him and his wife have experienced loss and infertility and Eli shares what...

181. Dr. Corina Dunlap Talking Thyroid, Gut Health and Brain Fog

May 15, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

Dr. Corina Dunlap joins us for today’s conversation. She is a mom and a naturopathic doctor whose research is incredible. She focuses on hormones, mood, and gut health. Dr. Corina’s goal with each of her patients is to get to the root cause of their symptoms. We discuss what the most common symptoms of hormone imbalance are and what kind of foundational health habits we should have in place in order to function at our best. Dr. Corina answers our questions on how hormones affect our metabol...

180. Supporting Your Mama Needs Through Realistic Strategies with The Matrescence

May 08, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MB

Megan and Lauren from The Matrescence are back with us today. If you’ve been around for a while then you know they were on previously in episode #112.  The Matrescence was born out of a desire to help other women navigate their personal experiences with motherhood while providing a community to support, uplift, and empower one another. Lauren is a licensed and trained registered nurse in the NICU and a mom of three precious little men. She is also now a board certified Psychiatric Mental He...

179. Meghan Watson on Discovering Your Emotional Awareness

May 01, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MB

This interview feels like a big hug. We sit down with Meghan Watson, a psychotherapist, writer, consultant & content creator, to talk about understanding emotions and giving ourselves compassion. We cover the steps of what building emotional awareness looks like, the topic of resentment - how it can be an emotional burden, and Meghan gives us prompts on how we can move past resentment even if we feel like the other player isn’t willing to make a change. We dive into how we can start to buil...

178. Discipline, Fostering Resilience, and Finding Your Confidence as a Parent with Dr. Aliza Pressman

April 24, 2023 08:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MB

We are honored to have Dr. Aliza Pressman back on the show today. She was a guest on episode #41 and also hosts her own podcast; Raising Good Humans, where she interviews very knowledgeable and renowned parenting experts. What we love about Dr. Aliza is that she parents the parent. She brings the latest research in child development and helps parents with the things that we deal with every, single day. Throughout this episode we bring in our own experiences and sift through ways to not only...

177. 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Right Now

April 17, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

It’s Amy & Abby here this week. We are talking about five questions we’ve asked ourselves recently and we think everyone else should ask themselves these questions too. The whole point of this episode is that all of our answers will be unique. We will give you prompts, and share our own answers to the questions, but we want you to take them and  run with them. We hope that these questions give you something to think about and allow you to do the type of self reflection that you deserve. Sp...

176. Elizabeth Earnshaw on Finding Solutions to Your Biggest Relationship Conflicts

April 10, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 44 MB

If you are in a romantic partnership of any sort you are going to love today’s conversation. We sit down with Elizabeth Earnshaw who is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is also a mom, author, premarital counselor, and she’s the voice behind the very popular IG account @lizlistens. What we love about Liz is that she is an expert at navigating conflict in relationships. She not only teaches couples who are just beginning their partnerships but she also helps couples that have bee...

175. People Pleasers and Overfunctioners - THIS One Is For You with Yara Heary

April 03, 2023 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MB

Do you identify as a people pleaser or an overfunctioner? Then this episode is going to hit home for you. Today we sit down with Yara Heary of the @lifeafterbirthpsychology Instagram account. Yara is a therapist, a speaker, and a coach who really likes to help women thrive on their journeys both as women and as mothers. Yara chats with us on how over functioning can affect us both short and long term. She gives us prompts to replace more work with actually taking a break. We cover how it is...

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