Collective Motherhood

*I apologize for some sound issues. We are in the middle of a move and working on a new recording setup. In this episode, I talk with Emily Grohovsky who is the Founder and Lead Garden Consultant at Cedar Hill Gardens, serving the Jackson, Mississippi area and beyond. She shares some practical tips, tells us about her love of gardening, and how she helps foster that love and others, including her...

In this episode of the Collective Motherhood Podcast, I talk with Cindy McMullin with Hometown Property Group, a realtor in the Jackson, MS area and mother of five children. She talks about tips for home-buyers, gives advice for home-owners on how to make small changes with big effects to grow your affection for your own home, or add some value for selling it down the road, and so much more! Make...

On this episode of the Collective Motherhood podcast, I piggy-back on last week's episode about my marriage and then do the introduction I realized I never did. I share a bit about myself and explain, in short, how JXN Motherhood, a community and resource for moms in Jackson, Mississippi, got started. No matter where you are, geographically or in your season of life, I highly recommend doing t...

Excuse the Taylor Swift reference, but it was too timely. In this episode, I talk with my husband, Graham a bit about our marriage and its (now) funny little turns and the loooong valley we sat in between our wedding day and about 2.5 years ago. I thought for sure I was forever stuck in a marriage that would be nothing more than roommates acting fine for our kids. After hitting a breaking point, m...

In this episode, I talk with Anna Mahaffey, LPC, about those hard tween/teen years. The shift from our kids running to us for everything, to these preteen and teen years of wanting to be more independent and interact with the world without their parents. It becomes more important than every to form a relationship of trust and honesty. This foundation, even moreso than any set of rules and boundari...

In this episode of the Collective Motherhood podcast, I talk with Mary Kathryn Evans, LPC, TCTSYF about having a healthy relationship with our bodies. Mary Kathryn is a Licensed Professional Counselor and sees a wide variety of clients, but she has a special interest in disordered eating and body image. We try to unpack a little bit of what a healthy relationship of trust and acceptance looks like...

In this episode of The Collective Motherhood Podcast, I talk with Ashton Boyett about her journey to becoming mom to a blended family of five kids. Ashton walks us through post-divorce with four kids as a single mother, what it was like getting back into the dating world, and then the meeting and marriage of her husband, Daniel, and the blending of her family with his. Though there have been plent...

In this episode of the Collective Motherhood podcast, I chat with Dr. Analise Douglas, MD about her journey to and through the medical field, in the meantime becoming a wife and mother. With a supportive spouse that encourages her pursuit of her passions, Analise was able to become a mother to her precious daughter while working on her cardiology fellowship. Analise was largely raised in the Jacks...

What makes motherhood so hard? In this episode I chat with Rachael Garner, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Therapist, as we unpack some of what makes motherhood so hard in this particular moment in time. From mental struggles like decision-fatigue and the invisible load we carry as mothers to the physical toll it takes on our bodies and more, we pop the top on what many of us a...