Latest Insecuremother Podcast Episodes
EP70 It's Not Just You
Motherhood Unmasked - November 15, 2022 07:30 - 11 minutesIt's not just you, Mama Bare. Everybody has issues—even those who don't have the courage to admit it. So don't you get free from old false narratives to get tied up in a new one. Imposter Syndrome tried to label you, but you're on your healing. Removing all the masks. So who's the imposter...
EP69 Help A Sista Out
Motherhood Unmasked - November 08, 2022 07:30 - 11 minutesNo one likes to bleed all over people. And when you first start counseling and old wounds reopen, you may feel like you're doing just that. So, except for your support circle, you hold back a lot. But as your wounds heal, is there a way to serve from your scars? Does it make you an imposter?...
EP68 Take Note
Motherhood Unmasked - November 01, 2022 07:30 - 14 minutesSometimes it’s all you can do to make it to and through your therapy session. Having the presence of mind to take notes sounds like a luxury. But as you heal, the time will come when you have the bandwidth to invest more of yourself in your recovery. And this episode is full of practical tip...
EP67 Prioritize Support
Motherhood Unmasked - October 25, 2022 07:30 - 17 minutesThere's no shortage of people ready to comment on your parenting skills. But they don't know what you step over in your soul to show up as a mom. They don't know the skeletons in your childhood trauma closet that you're battling in therapy. And they don't have to—as long as you have a squad ...
EP66 Protect Your Peace
Motherhood Unmasked - October 18, 2022 07:30 - 12 minutesWe say stuff like, “They drive me crazy!” But the truth is the only reason they can, is because we allow it. But if you have healing to do because you have generational patterns to break and children to leave a better legacy, then protecting your peace is paramount to the process. And in this...
EP65 Time for a Little R & R
Motherhood Unmasked - October 11, 2022 07:30 - 10 minutesIn the last episode, we talked about the reality that healing gets a little ugly before it gets better. And we covered the importance of acknowledging what therapy causes to rise to the surface without getting tripped up by it. Well, in this episode Vanessa's unpacking a key component we need...
EP64 This Is Gonna Get Ugly
Motherhood Unmasked - October 04, 2022 07:30 - 13 minutesWhen you see a potter fashioning clay on the wheel, it’s not a pretty sight. It’s a wet, splashy mess and that’s on top of the varying degrees of pressure needed to shape it into the potter’s vision. And that’s before it gets fired in the kiln! The result is a ceramic masterpiece that’s as b...
EP63 Moving at the Pace of Grace
Motherhood Unmasked - September 27, 2022 07:30 - 9 minutesHealing from childhood trauma is not a 100 meter dash. It's a marathon you run at the pace of grace. And in this episode, Vanessa talks about what trips you up on the way and how to avoid it. THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED is for moms, like you, struggling to survive your own childhood...
EP62 Therapy Anyone?
Motherhood Unmasked - September 20, 2022 07:30 - 18 minutesAfter the last couple years, everyone could use some therapy. But in this episode, Vanessa runs down a list of reasons why therapy is the game changer you need to live an abundant life. And she's not sharing hearsay. These are life lessons. So, lean in. THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED ...
EP61 Feeling Like You're Faking It
Motherhood Unmasked - September 13, 2022 07:30 - 12 minutesMotherhood Unmasked is back for season 7 and in this episode Vanessa's uncovering the reason so many moms feel forced to fake it and how to show up authentically as you. THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED is for moms, like you, struggling to survive your own childhood trauma in addition to ...
EP60 Forgive, Don't Forget
Motherhood Unmasked - April 05, 2022 07:30 - 9 minutesForgive has seven letters, but depending on your level of pain, it sounds like a four letter word! Forgiving the person or people who abandoned, abused, or violated when you were most vulnerable sounds like asking the impossible. And I get it. I lived it. You feel like forgiveness validate...
EP59 Take the Limits Off!
Motherhood Unmasked - March 29, 2022 07:30 - 9 minutesWomen talk about glass ceilings in the corporate space, but for those who experienced childhood trauma, there’s another kind. The ceiling that says what your mother was like is all you’ll ever be as a mom. If your mom was awesome, you may be happy to be half the mother she was. But if your...
EP58 Therapeutic Journaling
Motherhood Unmasked - March 22, 2022 07:30 - 10 minutesIf the thought of writing your thoughts and feelings in a journal sounds boring or worse frightening, in this episode, I talk about the benefits of journaling and the role it plays in maximizing your therapy sessions. We're talking journaling from A to Z. THE PODCAST MO...
EP57 Just Get Over It
Motherhood Unmasked - March 15, 2022 08:30 - 8 minutesTrauma is traumatic. “Someone having it worse than you” doesn’t make your trauma less significant. And the fact that it happened as a child doesn’t mean it shouldn’t affect you now. So how do you respond to the pressure to “get over it?” Listen in. THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED is ...
EP56 Chosen
Motherhood Unmasked - March 08, 2022 08:30 - 8 minutesWhen they say you can’t pick your family, it’s often about that embarrassing aunt or uncle or the cousin who asks to borrow money. But the truth is you can’t pick your children either and that’s the tricky part of parenting. It’s a stretch to find the beauty in the uniqueness of each ch...
EP55 It's Okay to Need Help
Motherhood Unmasked - March 01, 2022 08:30 - 7 minutesWhen you’re assaulted as a child and no one notices, much comes to your rescue, you learn to fend for yourself. Later in life, you may even doubt the sincerity of those who offer to help because well—once burned twice shy. But if you’ve noticed, life is getting stranger and harder. And the...
EP54 You Can't Please Everyone
Motherhood Unmasked - February 22, 2022 08:30 - 7 minutesPerfectionism and people pleasing are not the same. They show up differently and in this episode, we’re talking about what psychologists refer to as the fourth kind of trauma response. Which one are you: perfectionist or people pleaser? Cheers to getting free from all of it! Listen in🎙 ...
EP53 Let Your Guard Down
Motherhood Unmasked - February 15, 2022 08:30 - 10 minutesDid you ever pinky swear when you were a little girl? That promise was binding like a mortgage. The only way out was death! You pinky swore to hold someone accountable because you don’t have to be alive long to figure out people make promises they don’t keep—even to protect children. So when...
EP52 Hard to Please
Motherhood Unmasked - February 08, 2022 08:30 - 9 minutesAs I often say, “Misplaced expectation is the mother of all disappointment.” And when you’re the mother with the misguided expectation, your children pay the price. As a survivor of childhood trauma you likely paid it too. I know what it’s like to be conditioned to believe I had to meet “t...
EP51 Shame Off You!
Motherhood Unmasked - February 01, 2022 08:30 - 8 minutesShame will tell you your existence is wrong because of however you believe you caused the abuse, the abandonment or the neglect. And it will tell you you’re a horrible mother because you don’t show compassion and empathy as easily with your children as you do friends or strangers because y...
Season 6 Kickoff: A New Focus
Motherhood Unmasked - January 25, 2022 08:00 - 3 minutesWhile grateful for the five seasons of speaking with compassion, candor, and clarity, encouraging moms to own their pivotal role in the lives of their children and the generations that follow, this season kicks off a new focus. I'm zeroing in on moms often overlooked. Moms struggling to surv...
EP50 Fight or Flight
Motherhood Unmasked - November 09, 2021 07:30 - 11 minutesTHANK YOU!!! 50 episodes of a solo podcast started during a world crisis is no small feat. I thank the Lord and I thank you for listening, subscribing and sharing this podcast with your mom friends. You are living proof that friends don’t let mom friends mom alone! Today’s episode is the seaso...
EP49 Raising Women
Motherhood Unmasked - November 02, 2021 06:30 - 9 minutesThere's nothing like a woman! A beautiful combination of strength, savvy, and sensitivity, until we get so far into our feelings, all the rest goes out the window. What does it take to raise women who will mother a generation of women more emotionally triggered than today's? And how does get...
EP48 Raising Men
Motherhood Unmasked - October 26, 2021 06:30 - 11 minutesWhat if instead of sentencing your future daughter in law and granddaughter to struggling with a verbally frustrated husband and father, you raised your son to be more verbally expressive. Talk about impacting generations! In this episode, Vanessa shares practical ways to raise confident men w...
EP47 Your Best Is Enough
Motherhood Unmasked - October 19, 2021 06:30 - 9 minutesMama, you're doing the best you can. The real, rational you knows that. But there's another version of you that won't get off your back. In today's episode, I talk about what to say to that nag of yours, so you can live out the reality that your best is enough. THE PODCAST MOTHERHO...
EP46 Blessing in the Struggle
Motherhood Unmasked - October 12, 2021 06:30 - 11 minutesEver notice how our modern conveniences mess with your parenting game? Smart phones, two-day package delivery and dinner delivered in 30 minutes works great for us hard working mama juggling all the things. But if your child is enjoying all the perks too, how do you raise grateful children? ...
EP45 Empathy Matters
Motherhood Unmasked - October 05, 2021 06:30 - 12 minutesEmpathy is a life skill. It makes for the most sought after doctors and the most celebrated societies. Empathy is a whole vibe that’s gotten harder to find in our modern thoughtless, touchless and tense culture. But it is the way of the civilized and you and I have the influence to brin...
EP44 Table Manners
Motherhood Unmasked - September 28, 2021 06:30 - 11 minutesKeep it kind has gone out the window. I don’t know if you noticed, but you’re hard pressed to find a kind word, much less a kind deed these days. And it got me wondering where did common courtesy go and how in the world to we bring it back? And guess what? You’re part of the solution that co...
EP43 Table Talk
Motherhood Unmasked - September 21, 2021 06:30 - 10 minutes"Mom, what's for dinner?" If that question gives you more "nails on a chalkboard" vibe than "music to your ears" then this episode will flip the narrative and have you anticipating your family around the table. Yes, even the teens! THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED is for moms, like yo...
EP42 Legacy and Lineage
Motherhood Unmasked - September 14, 2021 06:30 - 9 minutesBack in Episode 25, I led the charge to slay those destructive family cycles. Thanks to Sarah Jakes Roberts, today, I'm circling back around the other side of the coin, so you leave a legacy richer than the one you inherited. THE PODCAST MOTHERHOOD UNMASKED is for moms, like you, strug...
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