Harvesting U: A Momma Community

For us mommas, it seems like the chaos is never-ending. Our precious little angels and partners are constantly challenging our sanity with drama, surprises, and confusion. And we're the ones who are tasked with managing family life as the Chief Operating Officers of our small nonprofit, also known as our family and home. According to the  Journal of Marriage & Family , moms are handling 71 per...

We're high-kicking into the New Year with fresh intentions to try new things! As we're well-aware that many New Years resolutions dissolve within the first few months of the year, we're steadfast in our strategies to remain focused on what matters and set ourselves up for success in our new year endeavors.  Beyond the practical commitments to ourselves to try new things so our brains and bodies re...

Harvesting U is a podcast and a community of mommas striving to live big and love bigger. It's a process of nurturing, practicing, and assessing our skills and talents to live big and love bigger. Friends Aubrey and Theresa created Harvesting U as a supportive and judgment-free network of mommas who help each other to assess and develop our interests, talents, and goals. The podcast is unscripted...

Feeling under pressure from family, work, friends, home, and community? Yeah, we got that.  Today we're talking about feeling like we're swimming upstream, and how we get through these periods in our adult lives without completely stressing out and hiding under the covers (everyday).  Find out a few techniques for dealing with the overwhelming stress, and find comfort from relatable momma stories...

Have you ever thought about your love language? How do you show love? How do you best receive love? Is it through words of affirmation, receiving gifts, quality time, physical touch, or acts of kindess? Knowing your love language helps build a stronger bridge of communication with others, and knowing your partner’s love language can help build trust and connectedness.  In this episode, Aubrey and...

Our kids are growing up, and asserting independence appropriately and inappropriately (at times). It takes patience and understanding, plus a whole pile of parenting tools and teamwork to get through this challenging years.  As our kids feel like they are grown-up 'enough' to know it all, they also need us in so many ways, too. It's a struggle on both sides.  In this conversation, Aubrey and There...

Some days life can feel like our own personal 'Groundhog Day.' When life becomes mundane, it's time for a change.  How do we bring ourselves back from the mundane? On this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey and Theresa talk about a few ways they shake off the habitual and create little changes to set a different mood in the everyday. Making easy small changes like what we wear and where we sit everyd...

Have you started questioning your hard-worn habits? Trying to figure out how to get closer to your goal life? This conversation is for you.  During this episode of Harvesting U, Aubrey shares the meaning and motivation behind writing 'Broken Open.' It's a guide book to assessing habits, choices, and relationships. While it's not about her life, she includes some examples throughout to keep her rea...

Are you finding it harder to avoid the drama lately? Seems like it's everywhere--at the grocery store, on airplanes, at school meetings, on social media, within extended families, and even with our own kids. How can we protect our good mood and stay centered when there is so much conflict and drama out there? Aubrey and Theresa share a few strategies to dealing with the drama, and ways to navigate...

Being a supportive partner isn't always easy. It takes patience, effort, intention, and action to be supportive and allow our loved ones the space to support us back, too.  In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa are talking about how we've learned lessons along the way of becoming supportive partners through many years of changes and evolutions of our needs, our family structures, and our quirks...

Meet Rebecca. She is an extraordinary Momma. We're spotlighting her as a momma who goes way beyond the ordinary in her day-to-day momming.  As a mom of three, it may look like she is doing the typical momma work that we all are familiar. But, she has a big extra on her plate as one of her children has special needs. With Autism, ADHD, and Sturge-Weber syndrome, her daughter also experiences regula...

Digging in is all about finding the patience and courage to make ‘it’ happen.  But how can we trudge through the tough stuff?  In this conversation, Aubrey and Theresa get real about the challenges they face and how they dig in to find strength, understanding, and commitment to try their best to flourish through the rough spots of being a momma, a partner, and a friend.  How do we deal with those...

Purpose can be a trigger word for a lot of people, as it's difficult to truly know our purpose in life. But living in daily purpose through intention is a realistic goal and attainable.  A daily intention can be super simple like drink more water, check in with my partner, put my phone away when I'm talking with a friend, go for a walk after dinner, or let myself off the hook for not being more 'r...

How do we find our holiday joy? And what do we aren't feeling the holiday magic? No matter the challenges facing us, our Harvesting U mojo is to keep calm, and look for new ways that fit within the parameters of finance, time, resources, and pandemic restrictions.  Not everything has to be perfect and if it doesn't feel right, don’t force a holiday tradition. It's not the action that makes the hol...

It's not easy raising a challenging kid. Sometimes it takes extra patience and a few handy strategies to find our way as parents through the murky waters of behavioral issues and frustrating meltdowns over seemingly everyday events.  In this episode, Theresa shares her momma journey raising a tough child whose behavior has led to many-a-phone-call from school and a long list of interventions and a...

Co-hosts Aubrey and Theresa are getting real about severe illness and sharing what we do to manage the everyday, navigate surprises that bring us to our knees, and continue to find strength to endure and harvest our positivity and love through it all. We recorded this episode shortly after Theresa suffered an attack, and stopped breathing while driving home from dropping her son off at school. Thi...

How can we spot conditional love? And what can we do about it? Are you dreading a Thanksgiving get-together? Maybe it’s time for a gut-check on conditional love. In this Harvesting U podcast, Theresa and Aubrey have an honest unfiltered conversation about unconditional love and share personal stories that are both heart-filling and heartbreaking.  “Anything that is a struggle to your mental health...

Have you ever had an anxiety hangover? 😵‍💫 After getting through a stressful event, there’s that residual feeling of still being off-balance. How can we better manage this kind of hangover? Aubrey and Theresa dive into the cause of anxiety hangovers, offer strategies and tips, and breakdown Theresa’s real-life anxiety hangover she was dealing with during this chat. Live big and love bigger. 💫

On today's episode, we're talking about how to be a supportive friend. Showing up and being supportive is essential in authentic friendships. But how do we know how to be supportive, and what are the warning signs when it's time to pull back from a friendship that isn't working? And how can we be a supportive momma and help our kids navigate their relationships? Theresa and Aubrey breakdown the es...

On today's episode, we're talking about what it's like becoming a mom, what it's like to be a momma, and why creating a tribe of supportive friends is important. A support network is essential in any momma's life. Whether you are a married mom, single mom, divorced mom, working mom, stay-at-home mom, new mom, caregiver mom, step-mom, grandma, auntie, single dad who fills that momma role, or just t...