Mother Plus Podcast

Send us Fan Mail * Use code MotherPlus10 to get 10% off your first order at Barlow Herbal * In this episode, we sit down with herbalist Jane Barlow to explore the transformative potential of plant medicine. Jane shares her insights on shifting from a reactive to a proactive approach to health, addressing root causes instead of just treating symptoms, and embracing herbs as part of a balanced welln...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in responsibilities, unsure of what to do next, or terrified by the thought that you don’t have it all figured out? You’re not alone. In this solo episode, Stacey dives into the raw, relatable experience of ADHD moms who constantly feel like they’re falling short—and what we can do about it. Join Stacey as she unpacks: Why ADHD moms often feel...

Send us Fan Mail Finally find calm and clarity as an ADHD mom —join the Rituals Library today for just $20/month and start working with your brain and enjoying your motherhood. ADHD Cliff's Notes:  In this solo episode, Steph talks about the things that have shifted in her family's holiday traditions in this season of life and reads her Listen To Your Mother Boulder story, "Mom&apos...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’re diving into the life and legacy of Martha Stewart—not just as a media mogul, but as a woman who changed the way we think about homemaking. Inspired by the recent documentary on her life, we’re asking big questions: What does it mean to be unapologetic as a woman? How can homemaking become a source of power rather than a chore? And why do we critique ambit...

Send us Fan Mail Stace and Steph recap Rituals Week—7 days of meditation, journal prompts, and EFT for the ADHD mom.  We guide you through one of our juiciest rituals ever—warning! Do not listen while driving!— with a meditation, journal prompts, and a EFT tapping session for emotional dysregulation.  Stace and Steph share their favorite aspects of rituals and talk you through setting up your spac...

Send us Fan Mail Who here looks forward to their birthday each year, only to end up feeling that familiar pang of disappointment? As ADHD moms, balancing high expectations and the reality of motherhood is no easy feat. This episode of The Mother Plus Podcast dives into the unique mix of excitement and frustration many ADHD moms feel around their birthdays.  Stace asked the Mother Plus community to...

Send us Fan Mail 🕯️✨To join us for Rituals Night on Tuesday October 29th at 7 pm Mountain Time, click here ✨🕯️: https://www.motherplusser.com/rituals-week ADHD Cliff's Notes: In this solo episode, Steph reads a column she wrote called, "Girl Dinner," and reflect on the motherhood stage of life she is in right now post-divorce, post-oldest goes to college, post-ADHD diagnoses.  Som...

Send us Fan Mail We interview mother + artist Christie Russert about how motherhood and ADHD tendencies have impacted her art.  We discuss the impact motherhood has on the ADHD woman's ability to focus on tasks with constant divided attention with children.  Untangling the overwhelm: what is motherhood and what is ADHD? It can be difficult to separate out symptoms that are a result of neurodi...

Send us Fan Mail Join Stacey as she reveals the morning ritual that changed her ADHD.  Here's the ADHD Cliff's Notes: She’s going to reveal everything she does in her morning ritual  The prep the night before is crucial to a successful morning  The 4 things that make up her morning ritual How she doesn’t let her kids walking in on her deter her from finishing the ritual The ripple effect...

Send us Fan Mail Join Stacey as she explains the mysterious art of EFT. Her mission is to make it as easy and as accessible as possible to you, the ADHD mom. Because it's too good not to use. Anxiety? Overwhelm? Unclear on where to focus? Feel like you're in a constant state of emergency? EFT can help. Here's how this episode is going to go down: 1. Stacey will explain what EFT is,...

Send us Fan Mail This season, we've been been exploring the impact of rituals on the ADHD mom brain. In this Stace and Steph episode, Stace asks Steph to describe her evening ritual practice. "My evening ritual began as a survival technique." As Steph has been immersed in an intense, stressful season—divorce, ADHD diagnoses for the whole house, kid going to college—she explains the...

Send us Fan Mail We meet health and nutrition coach Lauren Carpenter, and she shares how her own childhood health issues—we discuss how powerful it is to make changes during adulthood that will also impact our own children and ripple outward.  Food is medicine: We discuss the inextricable link between our physical health and our mental and emotional health, and the role food can play in how we fee...

Send us Fan Mail Join Stacey in this mini solo episode as she reveals all the ways she shrinks herself as a people-pleasing, ADHD/RSD woman: With her husband  In asking questions With her voice, and any noise she makes (anybody else familiar with accidental breath-holding?) With compliments With her kids She shares these, and then asks you to share them with yourself. If we can start identifying t...

Send us Fan Mail Cliff's Notes Version: We welcome Dr. Christine Li, Procrastination Coach, back to the Mother Plus Podcast to tackle the topic of clutter and its impact on the ADHD woman.  It's always about much than the actual clutter—Dr. Li reminds us that we are all different and it's about accepting ourselves without judgment or shame and figuring out what helps us as individua...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 4 of the Mother Plus Podcast! We are BEYOND excited to kick off this new phase of our show and our motherhoods. ADHD, meds, overwhelm, kid's diagnosis, and the rituals that keep us sane -- we have SO much to talk about.  Here's a quick recap of episode 121: Stace and Steph recap the summer with a highlight (and lowlight) reel, ADHD updates, and our feel...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Stacey brings you a solo episode to talk to you about what summer break has looked like for this people-pleasing ADHD mom.  She talks about how you can learn from her mistakes, and save yourself from burnout, if you, too, struggle with making everybody around your happy all the time - but especially your children.  Recap: What happens when people pleasers become moms? We al...

Send us Fan Mail Steph shares how her life has changed since her ADHD diagnosis, both at work and at home.  First, a med update: "I don't feel the meds when I take them, but I feel it when I don't." How finding the right formula has been the key to achieving balance, good sleep, and improved focus.  Aside from meds, Steph talks about the element of self-awareness and understand...

Send us Fan Mail Sharon Saline, Psy. D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, “What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life and The ADHD solution card deck” specializes in working with children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.  She lectu...

Send us Fan Mail In our conversation with Dr. Sharon Saline, she talks about the origin of the sense of failure so many people with ADHD experience, and how it can be traced back to harmful messaging we've endured since childhood about how we are defective in some way or not okay.  Dr. Sharon challenges us to change our inner dialogue and talk to ourselves with compassion, the way we would a...

Send us Fan Mail Catastrophizing: An irrationally negative forecast of future events. This is a common ADHD trait. When your thoughts are hyperactive, it's hard not to go down rabbit holes. And some of them can be pretty scary and depressing. Today, Stacey shares her personal experience with catastrophizing, and  the two things she's doing to tame her negative thoughts of the future. If...

Send us Fan Mail In this Stace and Steph episode, we talk about what summer looks like for the ADHD Mom: The Good, The Bad, and the very, very Ugly.  Transitions are tough for women with ADHD, and the summer transition can be especially jarring.  Summer can be such a struggle to balance "work" and "fun" and the result can feel very overwhelming.  Who is in charge here?? The lac...

Send us Fan Mail We speak with neuroscientist Brooke Quinn, who is currently getting her Master's degree in sleep medicine from Oxford University, about sleep and the ADHD woman.  Women with ADHD can be predisposed to not get good sleep, and inadequate sleep can lead to an increase of ADHD symptoms (even in neurotypical people), so the vicious cycle can be difficult and magnify ADHD symptoms....

Send us Fan Mail Sam shares his experience writing his comedy special --  "Neurospicy: Love, Life, and Comedy on the Spectrum" -- as being both "confronting" as he revisited challenging moments in his life, but also "healing" as he was able to reframe those experiences through the filter of Asperger's.  Sam describes growing up without a diagnosis as being "...

Send us Fan Mail In the second half of our conversation with Dr. Li, she discusses the impact of clutter on our environment and on our mental health.  One of the benefits of overcoming procrastination is living without constant stress. Dr. Li emphasizes the importance of not beating ourselves up and being overly critical during the process and to be okay with being who you are.  So many of the tas...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Li shares her own history of procrastination and how she thought it was "who she was" as a person rather than a characteristic that was changeable or flexible.  Her mission is to spread the word that procrastination is not who you are, but that it's something you can heal that can make your life feel so much better.  Dr. Li discusses the importance of becoming y...