We're getting a better handle on how to navigate life through a pandemic, so things have picked up speed again and are back to feeling very overwhelming... and the burnout has never felt more real. Celeste and Magen share their thoughts on this very topic and discuss how they've been tackling saying no more, taking a step back from things, and making themselves a priority.
Get caught up with Celeste and Magen on this episode and see where life has taken them.
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Ann Kaplan is a parent coach, birth worker, and mother of four. Her passion for helping new parents navigate the early stage of parenthood through birth work, organically lead her to becoming a parent coach.
On this episode, Ann shares insightful parenting skills for us to discover how we can "parent on our own terms" and feel less stress and guilt about it. She discusses how we can better our relationship with our child(ren) when challenging power struggles occur, how we can successfully co-parent, and so much more!
Don't forget to check out her resource guide: Getting Kids to Listen The First Time.
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On today's episode, we chat with Barbara Clarke, author of the recently published memoir, THE RED KITCHEN.
Barbara shares with us how she has handled many challenges in her life including: memories of family trauma specifically, overcoming a broken mother-daughter relationship, the role of women in families and the workplace, and more! Barbara opens up about how it's never too late to mend relationships with others and with ourselves. Her memoir shows her readers, that hope for harmony and discovering forgiveness can be possible with lots of work and laughs along the way.
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What is your definition of success? Does it include the cost of your happiness? Join us as we chat with Dr. Jeff Dutremble on how he found his happiness and purpose as a writer. In today's episode, Jeff opens up about the difficulties of walking away from two hard-earned careers, battling depression, fatherhood, and how he hopes others stay true to themselves through his children book, Find a Lost Smile.
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We are back and we have missed you, Mother Forkers! Parenting during the pandemic has been so challenging and has felt like a form of isolation for many of us. Join us as we chat with the author of American Rapture, Jordan Claire McCraw. Her book shares her incredible journey of self-love and healing through poetry. We discuss what it is like to struggle with mental health, feel disconnected with your partner after kids, and so much more! (Very similar to what some of us are experiencing now.) We couldn't unpack it all, so stay tuned for a part two!
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If you or anyone in your life has lived with chronic pain, you don’t want to miss this episode! Today, we chat with Anna Penenberg, who holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Dance Therapy from UCLA and certifications in Marriage & Family Therapy, Body-Mind Centering®, Infant Developmental Movement, and Kundalini Yoga & Meditation. Anna also is the author of Amazon's Best-Seller Dancing in the Narrows. Her first book, Dancing in the Narrows, shares her beautiful mother & daughter’s multi-year journey through illness and trauma. We are so excited to have her daughter Dana chatting with us too. Dana Penenberg holds a BA from Bennington College. She received her initiation as a healer finding her way through a 12-year healing crisis by exploring the worlds of allopathic, homeopathic and energetic medicines clarifying an understanding of how healing works. Tune in to see how they persisted as mother and daughter to figuring out a cure for Dana’s debilitating illness while she and Dana take us through memorable points from the book, Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother-Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness.
Resources: Anna Penenberg: www.annapenenberg.com Instagram: @annapenenbergauthor Book: Dancing in the Narrows on Amazon
Dana Penenberg: www.danapenenberg.com Instagram: @integrative_energetics
What would you do if you checked on your 3-month-old son in his nursery and discovered it wasn't your son?
Join us as we chat with Rea Frey, the multi-published, award-winning bestselling author of three suspense novels and four non-fiction books, and CEO & Founder of WriteWay . In today's episode, Rea sheds a light on the bond between mothers and their children in her new book “UNTIL I FIND YOU", which is a thriller about Rebecca Gray, a single mother who is losing her eyesight, and her journey to finding her son.
We also briefly chat about a kidnapping scare with her own child, homeschooling, starting a brand-new company amidst the pandemic, behind-the-scenes struggles of writing and publishing a book, and tons more!
Synopsis for UNTIL I FIND YOU:
"Since Rebecca Gray was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, everything in her life consists of numbers. Each day her world grows a little darker and each step becomes a little more dangerous. Following days of feeling like someone’s watching her, Bec awakes at home to the cries of her son in his nursery. When it’s clear he’s not going to settle, Bec goes to check on him. She reaches in. Picks him up. But he’s not her son. And no one believes her. One woman’s desperate search for her son...In a world where seeing is believing, Bec must rely on her own conviction and a mother’s instinct to uncover the truth about what happened to her baby and bring him home for good."
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When's the last time you had an uninterrupted adult conversation with a fellow mom? Here's your chance! Celeste and Magen chat it up with fellow podcaster and first-time author, Brandy Ferner. Brandy is the creator of the Adult Conversation podcast, social media pages, blog, and now, book! Her writing has been featured in Good Morning America, HuffPost, Romper, CafeMom, TODAY Parents, and more. She's also a doula, childbirth educator, and birth trauma mentor. Brandy chats with Celeste and Magen about dad privilege, her new book, how marriage changes after having kids, and more!
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