Empowered in Health

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast, I had the personal joy of interviewing Mindy Court. Mindy grew up in MN, went to college in WI and currently lives in La Crosse, WI with her husband Josh and their kids, Pearl (14) and Cam (10). She has been a teacher off and on since 2005 and has taught both middle school and elementary school. Mindy was lucky to stay home for four years while th...

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast, I had the privilege of interviewing Anne Kenny. Drawing from 15 years of experience in user research and design, Anne illustrates her observations and reflections on modern motherhood to visualize and validate what others feel but don’t always say. She’s inspired by the joys & challenges of life with 2 littles at home, infinite-scrolling suppo...

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast, I share my thoughts on the power of AND . What do I mean by that? Literally - the power of saying - I need this AND that. I want to commit try this AND that. I love having access to this AND that. I'm super happy with this AND I want to keep finding new things too. It doesn't have to be OR. We don't have to pick and choose when it comes to our hea...

In today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast - I share some honest truth and encouragement around STOPPING this one big, thing in motherhood....the feeling/need to apologize or justify or over explain!! Listen - motherhood is hard. Life is messy. Things rarely go to plan. If you're in a situation or surrounding by a circle that makes you feel like you need to over explain the WHY behind you a...

On this week's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast, I had the honor of interviewing Monica Hoss. Monica is a registered and licensed dietitian with a masters degree in nutrition science. Ever since she was young - she's been interested in functional nutrition. Her mom had a book in our kitchen called foods that harm, foods that heal. She loved reading through it and learning about the relations...

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast - I interview Jodi Schilling. Jodi is a mom of 4 neurodiverse kids and a LCS-certified life coach. In her work, she shows moms how family relationships can be strengthened through crisis after experiencing this with her own family. Jodi also holds a master’s in education and is a behavior specialist in schools. She brings her expertise to her podca...

In today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast, I had the honor of interviewing Stephanie Watson. Stephanie is a Certified Health Coach. She attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and completed Emory's health coaching program. She also did Teach For America right after college and ended up teaching for 6 years. She has her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction. During our interview, w...

On today's episode, I'm sharing more of the story behind the MOLD exposure our family is working through, what we're learning and how diving into functional medicine/root cause truly is a pandora's box. It takes work. It takes effort. It takes resilience and patience and an investment. It's super emotional and brings up an overwhelming amount of questions. But we are getting more data. We have mor...

On today's episode of the podcast, I interview Bridgitte Carroll of Gut. Personal. What a BLAST our conversation was and truly - so incredibly eye opening when it comes to gut health and digging into the root cause of potential health concerns. I loved learning about her personal story, her own health concerns/symptoms, the birth of her company as well as the opportunity she had to intern with Dr....

In today's episode - I share more about my specific gut health journey and how much I'm learning as I dive deeper on root cause in my own health (and really the health of our entire family). From removing inflammatory foods like gluten and dairy, to SIBO testing and following LOW FODMAP, adding supplements, to mold exposure, regulating our nervous system, environmental toxins and more - it's amazi...

On today's episode - I had the pleasure of interviewing Deena Harari. Deena and I had a joint conversation about therapy. WHY? Because therapy ROCKS! We each talked about our personal and professional backgrounds, our experiences with therapy, why therapy matters and why talking about this important resource is an incredibly powerful practice within the mental health space. Deena is a social worke...

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast - I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Emery. Rachel is a Labor & Delivery nurse turned family nurse practitioner currently working in an OBGYN office in rural Indiana. She is married to her college sweetheart, Kyle, and they have 3 young children - they live on a farm and raise cattle. Rachel's passion is taking care of women of chil...

On today's episode of The Momlife Mindset Podcast - I have the privilege of interviewing Chrysty Lockhart. Chrysty is a believer, mom, wife, teacher who has struggled with mental health and body issues her whole life. She's someone who has molded herself into who she thought she was supposed to be and is currently in the process of a major transition for my son and possibly herself. She's also the...

In this episode - I dive into Part 2 of my mental health and momlife story. I share more of my heart around the struggle to manage co-existing feelings and how balancing needs in our house can become overwhelming. I feel incredibly humbled and blessed every day to mother my four kiddos. At the same time, there's no denying the mental and emotional weight that comes with that responsibility. I...

As we kick off Mental Health Awareness Month - I'm diving into my FULL motherhood story on the podcast today. While I tried to keep things concise - looks like this will be PART 1 of the story. From moving abroad to Australia to have our first baby to transitioning back to the states to have our others - I've learned a lot about the differences in maternal care and postpartum care delivering in tw...

On today's episode, I'm sharing more about the give-back plan for Mental Health Awareness month and how you can get involved! By either sharing your story/perspective through posts for Maternal Mental Health Week or purchasing items through my shop as a part of the give-back initiative - it's an honor to do this work alongside you and bring more awareness to this incredibly important topic. The Ha...

I'd love to know, Mama - where is your happy place?! In today's episode, I'm sharing my heart around our spring break trip and the importance of finding happy places. We hear all the time about happy places like the beach, Disney, the mountains and more. But have you ever thought about the importance of finding happy places in the small, simple things that we experience day to day?  May is Me...

In this episode, I'm SO excited to share the news about our FIRST apparel launch - coming to The Momlife Mindset Shop this Wednesday, April 6th at 9:00AM MST . The initial launch will be a preorder structure - meaning the preorder window will run from Wed. 4/6 to Wed. 4/20 (for two weeks). Orders will start processing and shipping starting on Thursday, April 21st. I've been dreaming of building ou...

I'm not perfect. And sometimes - I learn the hard way. Our lifestyle choices - from what we choose to eat, how much we sleep, how we create boundaries and protect our peace - it all affects how we feel from the inside out. In this episode, I'm sharing more of my heart around our weekend as a family and how my indulgences started to pile up on one another and left me feeling TERRIBLE come Monday mo...

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to watch the LA Marathon and my youngest sister completely crush her goal of completing it. I am one PROUD big sister and was vividly reminded of the power of believing in yourself while watching so many run the race. When I decided to go watch her a little over 3 weeks ago - I also registered for the 5K race. Going out of town, spending the money, renting t...

In today's episode, I share about a powerful quote I came across this weekend and how it forced me to really dig into the idea of boundaries when it comes to protecting our mental health. So often as moms and as women, we equate not having the capacity to not being capable, worthy or enough. This is SO FAR from the truth. Please know that setting boundaries and coming to terms with not having the...

The further I dive into gut health, the more I'm learning about the mind-gut connection and how our wellness is all intertwined. As someone who faces mental health struggles related to anxiety and depression, it's become glaringly clear that my symptoms feel heavier and harder to manage when I'm not paying attention to my overall health needs from the inside out. After working with my functional d...

Life has broken me a lot. But as of late - it's broken me down to my core. The littlest things can send me into negative spirals. The overwhelm can become so intense, I don't want to get out of bed. And while I don't know exactly what I need, I won't stop trying to find solutions, resources, help and support in order to empower me through to the other side of this broken state. Even in the broken...

In this episode, I'm sharing the interview I was honored to do with Jessica Crate Oveson and Communities That Care. She asked me to do an interview and share my heart around the work I do here at The Momlife Mindset. You can read more about this amazing initiative and the important work the CTC does at https://ctcsummitcounty.org/blog/ . Mental health MATTERS and the more we continue to connect, t...

In this Episode, you'll be surprised by the powerful realization and reflection that came about for me as I've started celery juicing. While working on my health and healing from the inside out, I'm learning a lot about myself. Some good things, some not so good things - as that's the true journey of healing. Our mind and our thoughts are an incredibly powerful thing. The more I dig into self awar...