This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Saru Bala! Dr. Saru is a naturopathic doctor specializing in women’s hormonal health. She focuses on heavy periods, PMS, and period pain and has helped 1000s of women get their confidence in their periods back with natural tools and simple changes. She shares with us how health doesn’t have to be all encompassing and overwhelming, and how we can make small changes to our routine that add up over time. Our bodies go through many...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Judith Joseph! Dr. Judith is a board certified psychiatrist who is conducting the first of its kind research study in High Functioning Depression in her laboratories. She talks with us about what a dysfunctional family system is, how was can gain sight and understanding regarding our parents limitations, and how dysfunctional family systems play a role in our mental health. Dr. Judith provides insight into high functioning...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Heather Chauvin! Heather is a leadership coach who helps ‘successful’ women courageously and authentically live, work, and parent on their own terms. She walks us through the power of feeling good, getting clear about how we want to feel, and what steps we can take to get there! Heather talks about why it’s hard for women to care for themselves and how we can reconnect with ourselves. Do you want to feel good, but it seems like an...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Kristin Svets! Kristin is a is a multi-passionate life coach, author, meditation teacher, and sound bath healer. She facilitates restoration, healing, and empowerment for high-achieving women so that they can bridge the gap between outer success and inner peace. As a mom to two boys in college, she is also passionate about empowering moms through the stage of kids flying the nest. She walks us through the highs and lows of becoming an...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Jessica Procini! Jessica is the founder and leader of Escape from Emotional Eating, a unique process grounded in a decade of research, a background in the Psychology of Eating, and transformational coaching methods. Jessica shares her own personal journey and experience, being frustrated in therapy and finally getting to the root of her emotional eating. She walks us through how others can find peace, freedom, and joy in the body, mind,...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Amy Tanzillo! Amy Tanzillo is a breastfeeding expert who helps expectant and new moms feel knowledgable and empowered during the early months of breastfeeding. Amy walks us through the fundamentals of breastfeeding and how we can master them! From proper latch, supply, and everything in between Amy provides us the confidence to breastfeed with ease. Are you overwhelmed with your breastfeeding journey? Let’s talk about...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Sharon Mazel! Sharon is an internationally recognized parenting and pregnancy expert, author, journalist, speaker, parenting coach, and mom of 4. Sharon walks us through what we can expect during our baby’s first year of life. From feedings to sleep and more, Sharon helps us understand what choices we can make during this time and how to make the decisions that are best for our family. Baby’s change so much during the first year of life...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Sadé Ferrier, LMFT! Sadé is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Sadé walks us through navigating our intimacy through the parenting years. She normalizes some of the dips in libido and challenges individuals have during these years. She provides insight into how to have conversations with our partners and what to do when our partners won’t have the conversations. Does intimacy feel like a struggle right now in your relationship?...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Ann Garcia! Ann has helped thousands of families save millions of dollars on college. Not only is she a certified financial planner and author of How to Pay for College, she’s also a parent of twins who just graduated from college debt-free, so her expertise goes beyond 529s and the FAFSA to the emotional components of helping your child set and achieve their dreams. Ann shares all her best insights on how to pay for college from...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Tracy Dalgleish! Dr. Tracy is a clinical psychologist and relationship expert who is on a mission to help couples break old relationship cycles and find joy in their relationships again. She talks to us about why unfair labor division creates resentment and what we can do to fix it. We all know how heavy the mental load of motherhood is and the long to-do list it feels like we are always carrying, and we want to share the load. How...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Dianna Dixon! Dr. Dianna is a Doctor of Public Administration, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, Postpartum Doula, Certified Life Coach, and Master Certified Life Coach with a focus on postpartum families. She created Pump with Purpose a global lactation and postpartum private practice servicing the postpartum community across the world and was started due to a recognized lack of resources and...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Cari Fund! Cari comes to share how we can break the cycle of toxic parenting. She believes that as parents, we are all humans who make mistakes, but the important thing is that develop self-awareness and the impulse to do better. Cari and Abbey get vulnerable about their own journey to break the cycle of toxic parenting, how they have navigated talking about estrangement with their kids, and what steps they are taking to heal. Are you...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Andrea Herbert! Andrea is a mom of 3, entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of Gold Ivy Health Co. Andrea gives insight into how we can maintain our identity throughout motherhood and prioritize self-care. She shares the biggest mistakes moms make when it comes to self-care and the absolute musts for maintaining our individual identity. In a busy world with lots of competing expectations these things can feel impossible. How can we not lose...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Michelle Felder, LCSW, MA! Michelle is a psychotherapist, parenting coach, and the Founder + CEO of Parenting Pathfinders. Michelle helps us unpack why we stress out over things that “should” make us feel happy. So many of us struggle with feelings of happiness and being uncomfortable in happy moments. Michelle helps us reframe some of these moments and gain tools to redirect some of these stressful feelings that come up. Do you...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Leslie Cohen-Rubury! Leslie is a licensed clinical social worker with a Masters in Social Work as well as a Masters in Special Education. Leslie shares with us how we can model being a responsible parent in order to raise responsible children. She touches on how to have conversations with your child, how and when to share our emotions with our children, and how to be a pillar of support with them. Leslie guides us through how to...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Alli Williams! Alli is the Founder and CEO of FinanciALLI Focused! Alli shares with us what to do when one partner makes more money, has more debt, or has more saved. She helps us navigate financial inequality within our marriage. How can we get on the same page with our partner about money? Let’s talk about it! ——————————————— You can find Alli Williams: www.financiallifocused.com IG @financiallifocused Free Foundations Course:...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Morgan Cutlip! Dr. Morgan is a psychotherapist, relationship expert, and author of ‘Love Your Kids without Losing Yourself.’ Dr. Morgan talks about how we can mom ourselves alongside raising our children. She provides insight into how we can prevent burnout, improve communication in your home, and rid yourself of mom-guilt. Dr. Morgan calls out the myth of balance and how we can navigate it. How can we love our kids without losing...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey kicks off season 6 by welcoming Chasity Holcomb! Chasity is a wife, mother, Trauma Therapist, Coach and Founder of Momfully You. After helping hundreds of clients heal from their childhood wounds, she’s on a mission to help high-achieving moms end perfectionism by healing their childhood wounds. Her biggest belief - generations shift when moms heal. In this episode Chasity and Abbey break down what childhood wounding is, they touch on the mother...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Mary Van Geffen! Mary is the international parenting coach for moms of Spicy OnesTM️. She helps people who are highly competent in life but overwhelmed by motherhood to lean into the discipline of staying calm and cultivating warmth and tenderness all while trying to wrangle fiery future CEOs. Often this requires serious skill-building and the balm of self-compassion. She walks us through how to navigate raising our spicy children...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Joe and Mell Hashey from the Strong Family Project Podcast! Joe and Mell have formulated what they call the “Strong Family Path,” which involves 7 elements that help us raise confident, independent, and resilient children. They walk us through how they focus on goal setting and accountability, morning routines, family dinners and meeting, and evening debriefs. They help guide us to utilize a mindset that is important to keep a pulse on...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Amber Trueblood, LMFT! Amber talks with us about anxiety and overwhelm with a unique definition of “overwhelm.” She delves into anxiety and the five styles of anxiety. Each has distinct contributing factors, emotional triggers, superhero traits, and life lessons. Amber not only helps us understand our anxiety and overwhelm, but leaves us with practical strategies to reduce anxiety in the moment. Do you know what style of anxiety you...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Kelly Smith! Kelly is a yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and host of the chart-topping podcast, Mindful in Minutes. Kelly walks us through how to come back to ourselves when rage hits. We normalize rage and the presence it has in parenthood. Kelly provides practical tools that busy moms can use when rage comes up for them. Do you experience mom rage? Let’s talk about it! ——————————————— You can find Kelly Smith: Website:...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Katie Ferraro, R.D.! Katie is on a mission to help parents and caregivers give their babies a safe start to solid foods without spoon-feeding. Katie walks us through what baby-led weaning is, when to start, how to do it safely, and so much more! As a busy mom of 7, Katie talks about how baby-led weaning changed meal times in her home and the trajectory of her career as a registered dietitian. How can we make baby-led weaning easier?...

This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Stephanie Rosenfield! Stephanie is a former speech pathologist turned life coach for overwhelmed moms who helps her clients navigate the internal and external chaos that often creeps up during motherhood without losing their -ish. She walks us through how to move out of the comparison trap, how to drop the need for external validation, and how to live a life that is aligned to our own values. Do you struggle with comparison in...