51: CONSTANTLY CALCULATING MOTHERHOOD
March 21, 2022
We’re talking pinterest goals & instagram dreams and how that’s never how it shakes down in motherhood.
We’re talking pinterest goals & instagram dreams and how that’s never how it shakes down in motherhood.
Let’s take up more space, be held more fiercely by gravity, and own our mom bods postpartum.
This week we are talking about identifying our blind spots in life, business, and parenting.
While my husband is incredible, that doesn’t change the societal pressure, standards, or expectations put on women when they give birth.
Neurodivergent or neurotypical, all children present their own unique challenges.
Let’s leave fear behind, stop being scared to shine, and start being strong together.
In this episode Alissa realizes where the source of her feeling responsible for her partner’s erections, based on Lindsey Vestal’s, the founder of The Functional Pelvis, explanation of how stress accumulates in the pelvic floor.We are built to experience cycles. Life cycles, menstrual cycles, and stress cycles. And it’s that last one that gets really sticky – see what I did there?
We equate hard with success and easy with lazy.I’m good at being good. But I’m ready to be bad at being good. I’m ready to be “lazy,” give myself a break, and embrace softness. Even if that means I’ll never be able to zip up my pre-pregnancy jeans.
Today’s podcast guest Susanna Merrick, founder of Aura Wear, agrees that as much as we will try to be the generation that does it perfectly, we are all going to f*ck up our kids. I know I’m dedicated to doing it differently than my parents did, but I’m not denying it will happen.
I’m tired of having the same conversations on repeat. I’m tired of assessing risk. I’m numb from numbing and wondering WTf do we do next? Where do we go from here?
Why do we so often wait until motherhood to find and own our worth? Warning: I say at least TWO very smart things in this episode, and Ryanne Glasper, our guest, says more than two smart things — to help us opt out of the garbage, re-parent ourselves, and own our f*cking worth.
In this episode I share a few words of wisdom from my beloved ballet teacher Kat Wildish including, “Transitions are expensive.” They’re expensive because to have the control, musicality, sensitivity, and awareness to make them seamless takes years of training. Our breath naturally transitions easily from inhale to exhale. Day transitions to night. We’ve transitioned from 2021 to 2022. So let’s dance our way into this new year. One breath at a time.