Knotty Mama
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA podcast that exposes the realities of being a mama and an everyday lady just trying to work out the knotty parts of life in a joyful and mindful way. I'm your host Megan Wiggins and every week I'll be sharing moments of real-life lessons, stories and helpful tips for not doing all the things but loving the hell out of the most important things. Expect to hear, laugh and learn about the nitty gritty of motherhood, basic life on the daily, dealing with anxiety and how to untangle them with mindfulness, meditation and a whole lot of compassion for this knotty self!
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Episodes
Episode 10: Navigating Anxiety
May 27, 2021 18:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBHello Knotty ladies and welcome to another week and another episode of the Knotty Mama Podcast! This episode is about anxiety. A topic that is so massive it has been covered by hundreds of books, podcasts, scientific studies and at the forefront of effects from the last year we've had during the pandemic. For me, anxiety has been present in my life since high school, always present and sometimes literally debilitating. I could talk on this topic for hours but this time around, I want to sp...
Episode 9: I Like to Move It Move It!
May 20, 2021 22:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBHello Knotty Ladies! If you're anything like me then you probably started singing right along with this title. Although I am not a big fan of the movies that made this song popular, I do however love to watch my boys dancing to it...so friggin cute! I digress. So, a new episode and this one is about my journey through many, many different types of fitness modalities and how they started out as healthy ways to move my body then turned into wicked tools to turn good habits into unhealthy ways...
Episode 8: Birthdays & Body Image
May 13, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBWelcome! Thank you for joining me on another episode of the Knotty Mama Podcast! I am so grateful that you chose to spend some of your time with me, especially because time is precious and I know we're all super busy. This week's episode lands on my birthday week woot woot! And as previously stated in the episode about the boys' birthday, I get super reminiscent as well as goal-oriented on this special day of birth! So, as I usually am, I had a reflection and epiphany about what I want to c...
Episode 7: Good Things are Happening & Better Things Are on Their Way
May 05, 2021 20:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBWelcome! Thank you for joining me again this week, as always I am overjoyed that you decided to take time out of your day to listen in! This week I am piggy backing a bit off of last week's episode and talking about my reaction to not getting into the masters degree program I had applied to. It dawned on me, during my therapy appointment yesterday, that all of the work I've been doing on myself to be healthier in mind and spirit, emotionally, finally paid off and I didn't even realize it! ...
Episode 6: The Push
April 27, 2021 22:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBWelcome!! This episode is all about my journey to finding peace in the pause instead of the anxiety in the push. Releasing social norms and societal pressure to keep trying to barrel my way through things when they're just not working because "I'm not trying hard enough" or "I'm not doing it right" or "I'm a failure if I don't get this right, or do this right, or master this etc!" Not true, so so not true. I'm challenging myself to ironically push back in this and instead of trying to push...
Episode 5: Kindness is Magic
April 21, 2021 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBWelcome! This week I talk about one of my favorite topics...kindness! And more specifically, kindness to yourself, self-love and all that "gushy, feel good" stuff but delivered in a real and straight to the point way! I talk about the self-love work I've been doing on myself this year. Instead of a resolution, I decided to focus on a goal and being kinder to myself was the one that I picked! So far, it is changing everything in my life in such a beautiful way. Changing how I feel, how I thi...
Episode 4: My Top FIVEs
March 30, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWelcome! This is a special episode as I reminisce about the last few years because the boys turned FIVE last Friday!! I cannot believe it, my mind is still blown but here I am, still standing with a lot more gray hairs, an achy hip and saggier boobs but I'm here! In this episode I share the top five lessons I've learned in motherhood over the last five years and the top five lessons learned in womanhood because I've grown lightyears in both arenas in life. Here's the down and dirty for moth...
Knotty Mama Meditation: Out With the Old & In With the New
March 19, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBWelcome to the first Knotty Mama Podcast Meditation episode! I hope this finds you alone, in a quiet place and with enough time to feel that you’re not rushed…so vital to really being in the moment and spending this time on you and only you for all the good benefits. My meditation practice started about 14 years ago when I took a Buddhism class in college. From that point on I have been going back to it time and time again to find myself, remember that focusing on the breath is vital for a...
Episode 3: Be Kind, Everyone's Fighting a Battle
March 16, 2021 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBWelcome! For this episode, I was inspired by a completely random source at an unexpected moment. All while I was sweating and moving to one of my all-time favorite workout instructors at Obe. More on this amazing workout platform in a later episode, all I will say is if you haven't heard of it, now you have and if you haven't tried it, get to it!! Here is the quote that I couldn't stop thinking of during this moment: Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing abou...
Episode 3: Be Kind, Everyone's Fighting a Battle
March 16, 2021 03:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBWelcome! For this episode, I was inspired by a completely random source at an unexpected moment. All while I was sweating and moving to one of my all-time favorite workout instructors at Obe. More on this amazing workout platform in a later episode, all I will say is if you haven't heard of it, now you have and if you haven't tried it, get to it!! Here is the quote that I couldn't stop thinking of during this moment: Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing abou...
Episode 2: Don't Drink the Lukewarm Coffee!
February 24, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes - 9.79 MBWelcome! This episode was inspired by a quote from yours truly: Don't drink the lukewarm coffee! Short, sweet and inspired by the nasty lukewarm coffee I've been passively settling for, for way too long! But not any more! I realized that making a fresh cup of hot coffee that I would enjoy approximately a million times more than that nasty neglected cup of joe, was well worth a little bit of a wait and some extra negotiations with the kiddos to give mama a few more minutes to get herself ri...
Episode 1: Welcome Knotty Ladies!
February 11, 2021 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.35 MBWelcome to the Knotty Mama Podcast! The podcast where I, Megan Wiggins, expose how on the daily, I'm trying to work out the knots in life in motherhood and womanhood. I'm so excited and grateful you're here to join me in the very first episode. I'll make this short and sweet, it's a quick introduction to the podcast. Here's what you can expect to hear: A little bit about who I am and my "qualifications." Why I wanted to create a podcast. What you can expect. Some inspiration from one of ...