The Mothering Myself Podcast

It's here! Join Susan and she shares what's next and where you can tune into future podcast episodes grounding the galactic! We're now on Instagram as the @MOTHERINGMYSELFPODCAST Check out our website for the revamp!  

What is happening? Join Susan as she clarifies the previous episode, 'Redirecting' and opens up regarding her personal process, transformation, and evolution. This episode reflects on the past three years sharing via the Mothering Myself Podcast and speaks to the real reason why we heal. Ready to hear what's next? Tune in now! Instagram

On this Mother's Day we are honoring the Divine Mother within us all, and the Cosmic Womb that enabled our journey to experience ourselves in human form on this Earthly plane. In this episode, Susan addresses the redirection that is to take place within this podcast as the Mothering Myself platform transitions from the message of reparenting into reclaiming our cosmic origin and heritage. As we navigate a time period that begins to transition from the old ways into the seedlings of the new, the Mothering Myself Podcast will be changing and evolving as well. Tune in to receive the channeled downloads and hear Susan's current process as she bridges the old and new. Instagram

Welcome to The Mothering Myself Podcast! This podcast is for you if you are on a journey of self-awareness and desire the world to become a kinder, more forgiving place.  This podcast is for you if you have ever felt “not enough”, “unworthy”, “undeserving”, “selfish”, “bad”, and/or “unaccepted” in any kind of way.  This podcast is for you if you are on a mission to “un-do” all the garbage you have learned growing up to re-connect to your truth and inner knowing.  This podcast is for you if you were once a child and are still wonder what it means to “grow up”. This podcast questions our reality thoughtfully, with love. It asks how we can meet ourselves where we are with compassion and forgiveness in order to release our past. It questions how we can accept ourselves so we can teach our children how to embrace themselves, without having to be a particular way that is inauthentic to their essence. It speaks to our shared human experience transcending our illusions of separateness. Despite our lives looking different both physically and via varying experiences, it speaks to the universality that we are all seeking love and acceptance.  And, that we are each inherently worthy and deserving of our own love. Website: www.motheringmyself.com Instagram: @motheringmyselfpodcast

What is for you in the year 2022? Are you looking for someone to kick you into shape (whatever that means for you), or will you lead yourself lovingly forward? Will you be making decisions for yourself and your family from your head or your heart space? In this episode, Susan invites us to consider what the year 2022 holds in store for us through its numerology and lunar cycle so that we may consider how to utilize the energy of this year to step into greater alignment with our unique path forward. We discuss finding safety in this moment rather than looking for safety in the future and how we can meet ourselves in this moment to create the future we desire. Instagram

In this episode we say, "No. Thank you." to the "New Year, New You" rhetoric. Rather, we sit with one another in the beginnings of 2022 to assess what is needed to accept ourselves, more than ever, as we are.  As we plant the seeds of what we desire in this new calendar year, we contemplate how we're utilizing our energy and where we might be looking to change something before we fully acknowledge, accept, and cultivate compassion for whatever it is that we feel needs to be changed.  This episode asks us to slow down and move more inwardly before we race into the inspiration and potential of whatever this year may bring us. 2022 intention: cultivate more self-love for ourselves. Tune in to create more space, time, and attention for yourself. Instagram

Join us as we celebrate the birth of a Mother with Allie Page, Childbirth Educator, Mother's Guide, and the Founder of the Birth of a Mother Summit. This episode invites us into the sacred transformation that motherhood/parenthood beckons from maiden to mother. This conversation holds birth and death simultaneously, while expanding our perspective from what is in our control to that which we only know to be divinely orchestrated.  We dive into the depths of this human experience allowing the messy to be sacred as we learn how to find steadiness in the midst of the uncertain.  Connect with Allie Connect with Susan: Instagram  

This winter solstice we are leaning into the darkness to remember the light within. This episode meets us as we are for the totality of our experience. We sit together in the darkest days with the invitation to go deeper within ourselves. We give ourselves permission to feel it all, love ourselves deeply (especially the parts of ourselves that may feel hurt, and celebrate the depths of our experience. And, we consider how we want to utilize the winter season for our rebirth in 2022. This conversation is soul support to remind you that you're not alone in your emotions and you are right on time wherever you are. Instagram

Join us in this conversation as we consider how we can support ourselves and our energy through the remainder of the year. Susan shares tips to tune into your energy wherever you are, and assess how you want to feel, and what you need to get there. Gain tips and tricks to cleanse and clear your energy for yourself and within your home. In this episode you receive full permission to make yourself a priority this holiday season and to gift yourself compassion when listening to your feelings. Instagram

This week we're extending an invitation to ourselves to feel gratitude AND everything else that we're feeling. As we remember the reason for the season, we're also acknowledging and validating all of life, and the parts that feel challenging, hard, frustrating, infuriating, and exhausting. We connect on how we create safety around ourselves in order to be honest about our experience within ourselves.  This episode invites us to consider what it might feel like to exist between worlds and to explore what cycles may be ending and what new beginnings are underfoot, while expanding our awareness around our growth process. You are invited to reflect on your current experience, while listening to Susan vulnerably share her current awareness around feeling grateful AND...  Instagram

Join Susan this week in celebration and reflection of TWO YEARS of the Mothering Myself Podcast. In this episode, Susan shares her humbling journey back home to herself through the initiation of motherhood/this podcast and each new chapter of remembrance walking alongside of her daughters' human development. This conversation speaks to the unanticipated and unspoken experience morphing from maiden to mother, remembering how to trust one's Self and see the divine orchestration of life's unfolding, embracing our differences, choosing love over our fear, and so much more. Instagram

It has never been more important to make it a practice to protect your peace. Join us in this episode as we consider what peace means to us each, how to find our way to an experience of 'peace', how to honor our Selves when we feel something that doesn't make sense to those around us, and how to trust our knowing of what it is we need to protect our energy and our peace. Together, we remember that supporting ourselves is the first step in supporting others in our life and that it is most important to know what feels good for ourselves rather than to follow the advice of anyone who thinks they know best. You already have your answers within you - the practice is to remember how to tune in to what it is you need right now. When you tune into what you need right now, you begin to learn how to protect your peace. Instagram

Join Susan as she shares her current medicine. This is not your preachy, 'how to' podcast. This week, we are sitting together in the uncertainty and the ebbs and flows that are coming this fall, and considering how we can support ourselves through the entirety of our experience as a parent, partner and individual. In this episode we speak to how our expectations, attachments, and energy can take us out of our power center and can potentially create more anxiety, fear, and inability to move forward. Susan shares her current experience, provides questions to ask yourself, and her thoughts on how we can support ourselves right now, or when you feel you need some extra support. Instagram

In this episode we are validating the experience we have from knowing another as a partner, to learning about our partner as a parent. (Parter describing whoever we are co-parenting with at any point in our child's journey). We discuss all that comes up as we bring a child into the world, or raise the child that finds us, with another person. We hold space for the human feelings and reactions to our experiences with the other parent that are magnified as a child enters our lives, while honoring the soul journey and soul contracts that we have with one another as we learn more about ourselves through the relationships we experience. Join Susan as we unpack the "ideal" family experience and find trust in whatever we're going through as we look deeper within ourselves and learn how to honor our own journey so that we can honor our child's soul journey, while also allowing our human feels.  Instagram

Join Susan this week as we lean into the Lion's Gate energies propelling us forward at this time. This episode asks us to reflect on our intentions and consider how we are using, and where we are placing, our energy. Throughout this episode we tune in to the collective shedding, healing, and choices we are making to evolve our experience, especially as mothers, parents and primary caregivers. We are reminded that the juiciness is in the messiness, and nothing changes if nothing changes. Susan reminds us that our children want the best for us, and are cheering us on in the physical and in the other realms. You are worthy and deserving to live a life that you love. What are you choosing? Instagram

Tune in to this magical conversation chatting all things human transformation, self-acceptance, and permission to make space for ourselves with High Vibe Hair Stylist and Transformational Energy Coach, Mora Steele. We are mothered by Mora as she holds space for us to consider how our desire for outer transformation mimics the inner shifts that are happening in our lives. We discuss "the call" to get our hair drastically altered, to the fears that arise when we witness our hair falling out. We consider the attachment to our hair and our children's hair, and the commemorative first hair cut of our child. Mora gives us clues to how we can communicate with our hair and the wisdom that our hair holds for us throughout the stages of our life. We open up to how we can make space for ourselves and practice the energy of receiving. We remember that taking care of ourselves is a sacred act and we discuss how we can become intentional in all aspects of our self-care. And, we learn how our hair is always feeding off of our energy in any moment. Find Mora Instagram

In this episode, we chat about the soul contracts we have with our siblings to support the foundational experience we have of ourselves in this life. We discuss soul ages, various soul choices and contracts that exist within the family to support individual soul lessons, and we assess what support looks like, feels like, and how we may judge what supports us the most. Regardless of our current relationship with our siblings, our siblings play a significant role in creating our initial interpretation of ourselves through witnessing their life curriculum as a developing human, and in relation to our parents and ourselves.  The contrast and/or similarities that our siblings' lives provide allows us to see more of ourselves, and find more love for our unique place within our family. We remember that what we experienced, has brought us to the awareness we hold now because of everything. Instagram  

Join Susan as she shares her birthday reflections, honoring us all in our choice to experience ourselves in human form navigating all of life's contrast. In this episode we chat about our choices to dig out the energetic roots that keep us stuck, and the weeds that continue to appear to remind us to continue to choose ourselves and honor where we are in any moment, no matter what. As we honor our experiences, Susan shares a difficult moment with her two year old that brought up her own experience as both a daughter and current parent.  We unpack emotions entangled in sticky expectations of how our children 'should' receive us and our entitlement regarding our children's choices, while feeling more compassion for our parents and our experience as a child. We allow ourselves to see the roots as they are, and honor the choice to feel everything as we dig out what no longer serves as we choose to look at our fears, so that we can find more love and acceptance for all that we are, as we are. Instagram

What do you want to leave your child? In this episode, Susan speaks to the dynamic and on-going nature of our inheritance being so much more than what material assets/debt we leave our children with at the end of life.  This conversation invites us to consider how our inheritance begins generationally and we contemplate the energetic, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and relational layers of what has been passed down. We invite ourselves on a journey from our forgetfulness to our remembrance and we find ourselves flipping the conversation from what we desire to leave our children, to what are we inheriting from our children with their birth. This episode asks us to examine our relationship with trusting ourselves and our lives. We are pushed to expand our perspective to consider that our journey is to inherit the wisdom of our own soul that exists beyond whatever layers of forgetfulness we have inherited when entering the human body and knowing and understanding ourselves through the mirror of our family.  Instagram

In this episode, we are expanding our perspective of conception. Susan speaks to our journey into parenthood as we collectively come into greater awareness and experience a higher level of consciousness as we invite our children into the Earth. We consider the metaphysical experience that birth is as we allow ourselves to consider how souls tap our awareness to support their entrance into our lives. We consider how the soul of our child and the soul that we are support one another to experience ourselves as we are in human form, with our own life curriculums. We ponder the journey and the lessons that are for us as we find our way into parenthood, while we honor the support that exists beyond this three dimensional paradigm.  We speak about how we are parenting our children in the age of remembrance where our children's brightness illuminates the darkness we hadn't yet been able to see. Listen as Susan shares her own experiences having had both her children tap her awareness and realign her life before they were conceived.  We hear (and feel) the truth that goes beyond what we have been told about our journey into parenthood. Instagram

In this episode, Susan discusses how we are shifting the parenting paradigm as we expand our awareness of ourselves and our children. Together, we journey into our childhood to remember where we began trusting others more than ourselves and we recall when our inner knowing no longer felt safe. As we contemplate why we began seeking answers outside of ourselves, we ponder how we can support our children to grow up trusting themselves first. This discussion takes us on a journey into our individual, familial, and societal experiences to consider how we have learned how to support ourselves and connect with our intuitive compass. We recognize where we have been conditioned to fit in rather than honor and accept the real experiences we have had. We consider the 3D to the extrasensory, metaphysical experiences we have access to as we remember that our potential is unbound. And, hear our three month old share her voice and knowing on the parenting revolution that we are co-creating. Instagram

In this episode, Susan speaks to the birth codes our children's souls bring with them into our lives/this world. We consider what birth codes are and how we can recognize them through our journey into and through parenthood. Listen as we consider the souls we are birthing into the world and the programming and deprogramming that they bring. We discuss how the souls who choose us to bring them into the Earth, and/or support them along their human journey are rattling us awake to upgrade our awareness of Who We Are.  As consciousness is rising, our children are entering the Earth with a heightened awareness of who they are. They are reminding us that we are spiritual beings having a human experience as they propel our expansion on every level, which forces us to feel the contractions within as we undergo our rebirth. Instagram Grab your energetically coded prints!

In this episode, Susan reminds us of how our unconscious beliefs drive our experiences of ourselves and each other. Listen as we unpack the separation we have experienced and how our separateness drives our desire to seek validation from others rather than looking within. We discuss the power of parents right now to look within and reconnect to the Truth in order to support our children to remain in their authenticity and knowingness of Who They Are. Tune in as we uncover the great spiritual human woundings and how we teach one another what it is we have learned through our human curriculum and learn how to identify more of our unconscious beliefs and feelings about ourselves that have been hiding beneath our current level of awareness. We remember that it is our choice to go deep with ourselves and clear what we can release that supports our ability to raise well children in their wholeness. Let us know what resonates. Join our Instagram Community. Coaching with Susan.

Listen as Susan breaks down the importance of, and where we can make, space and time for ourselves -- even in the weeds of parenting. We discuss how we view space and time for ourselves and from where our judgments arise. We consider what we do with the space and time that may be available for us, and whether or not we are utilizing the time to support us or to tune out. In this episode we dig into how we excuse ourselves from making time and space for ourselves a priority as parents because it is easier to distract ourselves than to choose to sit with what we are experiencing. We validate all that we are holding and doing for our families, and we normalize making ourselves as much a priority as every other member of our family. We chat about the necessity of finding support for ourselves so that we can respond to our children in love, rather than reacting to them in our emotional experience. Instagram

In this episode, Susan speaks about the power a daily self check-in to support us in responding to our lives rather than reacting to our experience. Listen as we discuss how we can become more aware of our thoughts, feelings, and energy to stay in control of ourselves, while learning to accept the moments we find ourselves navigating. We discuss how we can learn how to meet our needs in the hard moments so that we can move through the challenges, rather than utilizing the hard moments as an excuse to justify our reactions to remain stuck in the experience. Instagram    

Listen as Susan reminds us of our journey into parenthood. We are looking back at our experience of ourselves in order to see ourselves in relation to our children at present. We contemplate how we have learned to interpret the world, and how our lens can impact the way our children learn to understand themselves and the world at large. We consider ourselves as souls and recognize the forgetfulness of our true nature through our process of human development with our individualized life curriculum.  We chat about our fears, trusting ourselves, where consciousness is and has been, and how we can meet our children in the present moment. Instagram  

Happy Mother's Day! Mother's Day can be a day of celebration, a day of mourning, and/or a combination. This episode seeks to meet us where we are by focusing our energy inward. We look beyond how anyone else recognizes or perceives us, and we bring our awareness to our personal experience - how can we celebrate the mother that we are, or the mothering energy that we bring to ourselves or our relationships. Need the reminder that you're the perfect parent for your children or future children? Feel like you need support today? Tune in and choose to nourish your soul for yourself. Instagram

In this episode you will learn what Transformative Mothering is and how we, together, can elevate our world for ourselves, our children, our children's children, etc.! We continue to discuss the universal mothering energy to expand our awareness of ourselves and our ability to meet our children as they are. Susan breaks down the power in parents' commitment to grow and evolve alongside our children and how we can co-create the future with our children by meeting our children in the present moment. What does it require to meet our children in the present moment? How to we embrace change rather than resisting it? We dive into the future of parenting, if we choose it! We're here to create a kinder, more well world. You are a part of this movement! Tune in to learn more! Instagram

What does it mean to mother ourselves in 2021? Join Susan as she shares the mothering energy present within the Mothering Myself Podcast and how we can 'mother' ourselves with the universal mothering energy present within us all.  In this episode, Susan shares how her understanding of mothering ourselves has expanded from mothering our inner child to embracing and integrating the divine feminine in each moment we meet ourselves. We hear how Susan's journey into parenthood has propelled her to confront her fears, and how she has found inner alignment as she has learned how to evolve her fear into love. As you listen, consider where you can continue to cultivate the universal mothering energy into your life and relationships. Instagram

Welcome back to the Mothering Myself podcast! Join Susan in this first episode post-baby as she speaks to the gift of growing into ourselves. In this conversation we break down the difference of beginning again versus starting over, and how each ending invites us closer to finding and living what is meant for us. Hear how Susan's journey through parenthood and podcasting has pushed her to confront her insecurities and has launched her out of her comfort zone with each season shared. You'll learn how the inner work has created the confidence to move forward and find the clarity that propels the Mothering Myself podcast to move forward with this season. As you tune in, consider how your journey has pushed you to grow and expand, what energies you are ready to move through, and what new beginning you are ready to take on next. Intagram

In this episode we speak to the unknown and uncertainty that is this moment, and our need to trust in where we are headed without knowing where that is or what that looks like right now.  How do we do that? This conversations covers the truth that we have never known the future, but we have attached ourselves to the predictability of societal assumptions and the systemic structures that we have taken for granted. We discuss the givens that we have internalized rather than critically evaluated and whether or not what we have been led to believe is 'the way of the world' feels good for us to continue to rest our faith in. This episode illuminates our children's questioning nature and how their desire to understand what is enables us to become curious about what we have learned to believe. We consider the variables that shape our path and whether we have accepted our experiences, or whether we continue to run from the feelings and remembrance of the past via taking control of our children's life path.  We cover how our fears are not our children's fears, like our parent's fears were and are not our own, while we recognize that to truly trust our children's paths means that we must learn to trust ourselves. Connect : Instagram | Facebook 

Happy New Year! In this episode we begin to conjure our vision for this year, allowing ourselves to step into the new and to release what we do not wish to carry forward. Together, we consider how we desire to feel as we exit 2021 in order to create clarity on what intentions we desire to plant from a place of heart rather than our egos.  As we look ahead, we consider what expectations we have of ourselves, our families, and our lives and what may rest underneath of our desires. We flesh out what we truly wish for ourselves versus what we have been conditioned to strive for. We reflect on our relationship to and with change and how we can meet ourselves in each moment we find ourselves, rather than resisting or avoiding wherever it is we are. Ultimately, there is no magical switch that makes this year any different from the last. We recognize that it is up to us to hold ourselves accountable to our vision, intentionally move through each day we are graced with, and align our energy, thoughts, and behaviors with the vision we are working to create. Instagram | Facebook

As we celebrate the last week of 2020, we are entering a vulnerable conversation with Patricia Johnson, Energy + Mindset Coach and Founder of The Dependent Diaries, speaking to how we move from surviving our lives to thriving in each moment of our experience. Trish shares her truth and experience navigating partnership, motherhood, and life within a military family where uncertainty, unpredictability, and constant changes are normal occurrences. While, we may not all understand what it is to exist within a military environment, we have all been reminded this year that we are never in control of our lives and we can only begin to expect the unexpected. Trish creates connection points for us to find acceptance for the difficult moments we've experienced as she opens up about the obstacles she has overcome from postpartum depression to a year navigating life and motherhood while her husband was 12 time zones away on deployment. Trish reminds us of the power of our vulnerability, honest communication, and speaking our truth. Whether you are currently struggling, or feeling like you are on the other side of a transformative experience, Trish reminds us that our power exists within and that our love for ourselves through our process is everything. Tune in now to sit with and reflect on this past year, and to plant intentions for what you desire to create moving forward. You are right on time in your life. I honor you for all you are. FIND PATRICIA: Instagram | Facebook + Podcast Links coming soon (The Dependent Diaries launching early 2021) FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook EXTRA SUPPORT: *National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255National *Hopeline Network: 1-800-784-2433 *Crisis Text Line: Text "DESERVE" TO 741-741 *Lifeline Crisis Chat (Online live messaging): https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/ *Self-Harm Hotline: 1-800-366-8288 *Affordable Licensed Mental Health Counseling: Better Help

What has this year 'gifted' you? This week MegAnne Ford (Parent Coach) and I reflect on 2020 and the duality of this year on both the micro and macro levels of life. We discuss what is has been like to investigate and clean out the 'junk drawer' of life and the liberation that has emerged with this choice.  Throughout this episode, MegAnne reminds us that our darkest moments are often gifts, while they may not feel that way as we illuminate our dungeons. We discuss what it means to truly trust, navigating our lives from a place of fear and love, and the art of self-discipline. We chat about the brilliance of children and what it requires to allow ourselves to reconnect with our own light and unconditional love. This conversation invites us into the transformative arc of this year. May you uncover more of what seeks your attention, love, and release as you consider your journey through 2020 and what you desire to create as we walk into a new year and solidify the energy of a new astrological age. FIND MEGANNE: Instagram | Tik Tok | Facebook | Website FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

This week we are chatting with Raena Boston, founder of The Working Momtras, about the power of knowing ourselves, celebrating our unique gifts and conferring our gifts to the world. Raena vulnerably opens up regarding her quest to know herself as she found herself experiencing a spiritual awakening coinciding with her entrance into motherhood and letting go of the old ways - or outdated behaviors and patterns - that have hindered her ability to embrace herself as she is. Raena invites us into her awareness recognizing her achievement oriented personality and the struggle to assess who she is when she is not working toward whatever is next. She opens up about dismissing her sensitivity and we witness her make connections regarding how her desire to be 'tough' corresponds to her ability to 'achieve'.  In this moment, she shares with us her ahas and we feel her shifting into a more embodied space knowing her worth and unique gifts outside of however such is expressed out in the world. Join us as Raena reminds us we are each worthy as we are and there is nothing extraordinary we must achieve to be deserving of love. If you enjoyed this conversation, we would appreciate it if you could leave a 5-star rating and written review! Thank you for tuning in. FIND RAENA: Instagram | Website FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

This week we talk about following our curiosity for life with Jessica Dixon Majka, traveler, artist, Mom + entrepreneur. Jessica and her husband decided to leave NYC after 20 years with their 18 month old and hop in their 1976 VW bus to live on the road. They have spent the past year traveling around the United States with their toddler during a pandemic and defying the 'norms' of parenthood.  Jessica speaks about her affinity for and ease of connection with children long before she became a biological mother herself. She reminds us of the necessity to really tune into our children and listen to what they're telling us that they may be unable to articulate. In addition, Jessica shares what she is learning on the road from her 2 year old and how she has been surprised by her own reactions despite a solid mindfulness practice for over a decade. I love this conversation because we speak to the reclamation of the wild child and we are invited to ask questions about ourselves and our choices with so much love. FIND JESSICA: Instagram | Website FIND SUSAN:  Instagram | Facebook

This week's episode discusses the transformative nature of life + motherhood through the Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) perspective with acupuncturist, Dr. Sean Orr. Dr. Orr has been a consistent healing presence in my life since our entrance into 2020. He has supported my process of healing the past via releasing old emotional energies triggered due to generational familial patterns, as well as supporting the building of the future by easing the physically experienced pregnancy symptoms of the new life evolving from within me. I respect his work and appreciate the knowledge, wisdom, and healing presence housed within. In this conversation we discuss what TCM is and how it supports all of us, but especially those navigating the motherhood journey. Dr. Orr speaks to the healing journey as a dance with an intermediary, and reminds us that we are each responsible for moving through our unique healing process as we find what works and does not work for us. In addition, we learn what is at the root of all illness and we are reminded that there is always a grey area - nothing is ever black or white, especially with regard to our healing journey. In addition to the above, Dr. Orr discusses sleep hygiene, how we have become divorced from our feelings, the postpartum journey, and how we can love ourselves through the moment we are navigating right now, wherever it is that we find ourselves. I loved learning more about the wisdom and theory behind this healing modality and I can't wait to hear what resonates for you! FIND SEAN: Website | Instagram FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

This is a special episode - a guided meditation - for Thanksgiving 2020 to support you in carving out some time to reflect on your journey and practice gratitude for yourself.  Thank you for tuning into the Mothering Myself Podcast. Thank you for showing up for yourself + your loved ones. Thank you for your commitment to your unique transformational process. I appreciate all that you are, are becoming, and have always been. FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

Feeling so much gratitude for this conversation with Parent Coach, Kristen Coggins, who shares her wisdom on healing our past, moving through our experiences, and learning how to prioritize our needs as mothers so that we can show up powerfully for our families. This is a must listen, especially as we enter the 2020 holiday season this week! This conversation specifically shines a light on unpacking our trauma and revisiting the spaces in our lives that we tend to run away from. Kristen shares what stress does to our body and how Mom burnout is so real, and she speaks to her recent experience processing and moving through her grief due to a stillbirth at 32 weeks with her daughter, Juniper. While we delve into highly sensitive subject matter, we also acknowledge the joy and surrender that emerges from being open and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable. Kristen shares how we can be solution-oriented rather than problem focused and how we can find and keep our peace. Tune in now for inspiration traveling the revolutionary road that is motherhood. Happy Thanksgiving Week! FIND KRISTEN: Instagram | Facebook | Website FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

I am overjoyed to share this conversation on life, loss, and love with Dara Kurtz, author of I Am My Mother's Daughter. Dara and her book ooze love, compassion, and the wisdom gained through the trials and tribulations of life. Dara shares what it was like to lose her Mom at the age of 28 due to cancer as the was about to give birth to her first born, then receive her own cancer diagnosis at the age of 42 as a mother with two adolescent girls, and survive and reflect on both overwhelming and life-altering experiences. Dara speaks about the journey through one's grief, experiencing guilt as both a mother and a daughter, the experience of suppressing emotion and the freedom found in giving herself permission to feel what seemed easier to bury deep within, and evolving the experience of co-dependent relationships within one's family. This conversation reminds us of the importance of having honest conversations with ourselves and the ones we love, the value of tuning in and trusting ourselves, and the gifts that occur when we allow ourselves to heal. Dara's desire to share her story inspires us to appreciate our own journey and encourages us to appreciate where we came from and what we're creating as we connect to the present moment. FIND DARA: Instagram | Email: dara@crazyperfectlife.com | Website FIND SUSAN: Instagram | Facebook

What did it/does it feel like to enter motherhood? This week, we are joined by Muriel, conscious energy coach and founder of Pre-Parenting, who supports pre-parents and parents in preparing ourselves emotionally and spiritually for parenthood. Muriel shares her passion to support families in receiving guidance, creating awareness, and learning how to support themselves prior to becoming a parent thanks to her experience as a nanny and birth doula. While there are educational programs to support the physical birth of our child, there have not been programs to support a parent's entry into the personal transformation that is parenthood itself. Thus, the impetus for Muriel's work. As we speak to the transformative nature that is motherhood/parenthood, Muriel discusses the necessity to become curious about ourselves, courageously investigate and reconcile our childhood experiences, release the need to control our child's behavior, and the divine nature of parenthood. We touch on what consciousness is, what it means to be highly sensitive, and how we can differentiate between labeling our experience and our child's and observing our experiences without identifying as the experience itself. This conversation is power packed with insight, wisdom, and an opportunity for you to reflect on yourself. Find Muriel: Instagram | Email: preparenting@gmail.com  Find Susan: Instagram | Facebook

At this moment in time, we can all benefit from a little extra mothering of self, grounding, and support. Fortunately, world renowned transformational energy coach, speaker, and trainer - Natalie Ehmka joins us this week to support us in our transformational process and in learning how to protect, strengthen, cleanse and clear our energy. This episode is so juicy for all of us expanding our consciousness, committing to our inner work, and seeking the freedom to stand in our true power. Natalie shares how we can see ourselves as world changers within our families and the impact our healing has on past and future generations. We learn about the three spheres of energy and how we can expand our awareness of our energy vs. another's. We touch on our houses of consciousness and how we can remodel or move into a new house with the assistance of a coach or an 'energetic contractor'. And, we discuss how we can find more love for ourselves, our families, and the world we are navigating right now, even in the uncertainty and chaos that exists. Tune in to be reminded of the power of your intention and how we can show up as empowered empaths who are redefining compassion. I can't wait for you to experience Natalie's power and wisdom! Find Natalie: Instagram | Facebook | Website | Podcast Find Susan: Instagram | Facebook  

Welcome back to the Mothering Myself Podcast! This season is getting a boost in love, light and energy as we head into year two. In this episode, we take a moment to honor the growth process, reflect on the transformative nature of our motherhood, and allow ourselves to evolve into our most expanded potential. I get personal about what I have learned about myself over the past year and how I have been shifting my ancient energetic familial pain into more love. In addition, I share the changes I am currently navigating and the uncertainty that surrounds me as I look toward what I am building for myself and my family. As we discuss the unknown of the future, we consider how we can reconnect with ourselves in the present moment. This episode identifies opportunities to support ourselves as we continue to navigate our global pandemic and anticipate the outcome of the 2020 election and the upcoming holiday season. We continue to recognize that supporting our people begins by learning how to support ourselves. AND - find out what's in store for the rest of 2020! Can't wait to share this season with you! Thanks for being here! Instagram / Facebook  

I don't know about you, but sometimes I think I can do everything on my own and I forget to ask for help. I have been reminded recently how nourishing it is to allow myself to receive support; it felt like a huge relief. This episode considers how we learn and grow alongside of one another, but many of us believe that we're meant to figure things out on our own. We recognize the common reasons we avoid assistance rather than seeking support for our growth, while we acknowledge what we gain when we do allow ourselves to lean on others. We also consider what we are able to learn about ourselves through our experiences attempting to meet our needs. This conversation reminds us that true freedom is found outside of our comfort zone, and that we see ourselves more clearly through our relationship with others. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)

Have you noticed yourself being hard on yourself? Many of us expect more of ourselves than anyone else does of us because we have internalized the voices of others that make us believe that we are not good enough. It feels like the human tendency to push ourselves to be more rather than to take a moment to acknowledge and congratulate ourselves on the entirety of our journey up until this point. In this episode we consider how we began to accumulate the armor that we wear or have worn to protect ourselves from softening. What do we consider soft? What does it mean to soften? Is it safe to surrender when we have only been taught to fight our way toward our goal? Perhaps it is time to embrace the peaceful warrior and lay down our weapons. Perhaps it is time to feel our experience instead of pretending that we do not feel anything. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)   

What is your relationship with transparency? Do you feel like you can be fully transparent with others in your life, or are there aspects of yourself and/or your experiences that you feel are necessary to hide? This episode builds off of the previous episodes that explore the totality of who we are. We consider what transparency is and how we have and/or have not experienced transparency in various areas of our lives and our relationships. Is transparency self-responsibility, accountability, or vulnerability? Does the lack of transparency correlate with deeply held fears of what others will think? Are we so entangled in what we think we need to be that we forget who we are? Are we more afraid of dealing with what the truth may reveal than living within the illusion that we have been sold? This episode uncovers the layers that cloak our ability to be transparent personally and collectively. We ask ourselves why it is we learn to hide the truth and what it is that we feel we need to hide, and what purpose this serves? Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)

Have you experienced the dark night of the soul? Are you familiar with the concept? In this episode we uncover what the dark night of the soul feels like and how this experience, in its enormity, catalyzes our spiritual awakening. We consider how the dark night of the soul propels us into our authenticity. Throughout this conversation we consider how we each enter the world with unique gems that quickly become our buried treasure. We spend a majority of our lives identifying and drooling over the gold in others, and not realizing that we, too, are in possession of our own rare and potent gifts. In this episode we visualize our quest to become what it is we see, only to get lost in our search. How do we stumble upon our own self-serving direction? The 'dark night of the soul' is a monumental and pivotal moment (or time period!) in our lives. As we navigate this journey we consider the spiritual growth this experience inspires. And, we remember again and again that we each are both the creator and experiencer of our journey throughout this lifetime. Moving beyond this experience does not mean we will never again experience more challenges and difficulties, but enables us to surrender to what comes rather than to resist what is. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)  

This podcast episode originated as an Insight Conversation hosted by Natasha Wilson from Raising Alchemy that took place on Facebook Live on Thursday, August 5, 2020. Natasha asks questions like: * What is your perspective on re-parenting? * How do we parent our children without being triggered by our childhood experiences and/or what our parents parented us? * How do we constructively use our difficult emotions like anger? * Why is it we shut down our emotions? * How did the Mothering Myself podcast begin? * How do we make time for ourselves a priority (especially as parents)? * What simple steps can we take right now to love/mother ourselves? Listen as we discuss the mothering energy born within us all and how we can embrace the divine feminine energy to bring balance to the masculine. We speak to the need to learn how to love and care for ourselves so that we can truly be present with and support others, whether they are our family members or members of our community.  Find Natasha + Raising Alchemy: Facebook YouTube Instagram Find Susan + Transformative Mothering Instagram Facebook Website

Ever wonder why you're here, or what you're doing here on Earth? Have you found yourself questioning how you got to this point and where you go from here? These ponderings are so very human, and so very normal. Many of us struggle to embrace the idea that we choose our parents, families, and life circumstances that feel intolerable. However, who would we be and what would we know if we had not lived through what we have been through? How would we gain our super powers or know what we are capable of overcoming if we hadn't been pushed out of our comfort zone? This conversation considers our soul journey and transcends our identification with our mind and our body. We surrender to our lives rather than resist the life we have had or have in this moment. We contemplate how each experience and relationship offers a clue as to who we are as opposed to who we have been told to become. And, we allow ourselves to take a birds eye view of ourselves rather than see only what we can see in front of us. Do you need confirmation that you're here for a reason? Listen in. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)

Are you familiar with the shadow self? Our shadow consists of the aspects of ourselves that we cannot see, or we do not identify with for a plethora of possible reasons. Part of our healing journey is to reclaim this shadowy nature within and accept our darkness as we accept our light. This episode considers how we learn to disassociate with parts of ourself that we have bee taught to condemn. We reflect on how we project our insecurities and react out of a defensive nature to protect ourselves from being something that we have learned is unacceptable. While this conversation is not a therapy session, it encourages us to consider the aspects of ourself that may feel uncomfortable, while it reminds us that the discomfort is an acceptable and beautiful part of being human. We cannot accept in another what we reject within ourself. This conversation reminds us that no one can accept us more than we are able to accept ourself. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)

What can you give yourself permission to do, be, think or feel? In this conversation we consider the ways in which we feel as though we have granted ourselves permission, but might actually find ourselves seeking another's permission. We ponder how we may have internalized others' voices as our own to create our false self, while seeking how we can reclaim our power to connect with our truest version of ourself. I'm reminded that we know what we need within when we can slow down enough to listen. We have internal nudges that inform our direction independent of our entanglement with others. This is reflected in a journal entry written in January '17 that speaks to my ego's confrontation and my soul's GPS system narrating the way. Throughout this episode we investigate what we can do and cannot do; what is acceptable and unacceptable; what can be allowed and what cannot be tolerated. Many of us have given ourselves permission to do 'what we have to do', but few of us have given ourselves full permission to be all of who we are. We remember that we have permission to reclaim what has been lost. Find the Mothering Myself Community on Instagram: (link) and Facebook: (link)