F*ck It Mothering

Did you know that the average person makes 35,000 decisions in a day? I couldn’t find a number that is specific to moms, but I would wager that the amount of decisions we make in a day has to be double that. Because if a single person makes 35,000 decisions just about themselves, then we have to be blowing that out of the water, because we’re making decisions for ourselves, each of our kids, and i...

Have you ever found yourself saying something along the lines of, “Ugh I wish I had a day to just do nothing”. Maybe you follow it up with whatever pleasure activity you would love to have the luxury of doing: read all day long; binge ‘Dead to Me’; sit on your porch and enjoy the sunshine; take a nap. But then you end it with, “But I can’t, because I’m a mom. The go-go-go doesn’t stop just because...

“I have no idea what I’m doing” – Every Mom Ever We’ve all had this thought surface for us multiple times in our motherhood journeys. It creates feeling of overwhelm, stress, and even hopelessness. This thought causes us to look outside of ourselves for a solution to our stress; any expert who can tell us what to do with this baby/toddler/kindergartener/preteen/teenager/young adult. But it doesn’t...

This week, we're saying f*ck it to diet culture & unhealthy exercise mindset. Women learn to start hating their bodies around age 10. Women are brought up to restrict the food they eat, and tie their value to how many heads they can turn when they walk into a room. Women are brought up to not trust themselves when it comes to eating & to use exercise as punishment for "going crazy" and eat...

What do you do on days when your kids give you the finger? Not literally give you the finger, but when they aren't following your manual, let's say. Most of us respond to days where the shit is hitting the fan by trying to control it and trying to make it what we originally wanted it to be. But the result is always the same when we choose this action, right? We end up becoming the stressed out, an...

This is definitely my most vulnerable episode to date, mamas. But I knew it was the perfect way to cap the February self love series, and I've made a commitment to showing up raw, real & authentic to you all. So here it is, what I believe to be the pinnacle of the self love journey: purposefully learning how to love someone for the sake of love, instead of what they do for you. We think love i...

I have a special BONUS episode for all of my beautiful mamas! I'm giving away a signed copy of the book "Love, Unpacked" for my February raffle, since it is the perfect companion to go with our self love series. I have the great honor of being friends with the author, so Andi hopped on a call with me to chat about the themes she covers in her book: Abandonment 'The Girlfriend's Guide to Never Bein...

Do you ever find yourself yelling at your kids and partner: "No one in this family appreciates everything I do!" or "We're always doing what you want to do, but no one asks Mom what she wants to do!" or "I do everything for this family, yet no one even asks if I need anything!" Every mom has found herself in these moments of frustration boiling over in hot, angry hurt. In most families, moms do th...

Happy Valentine's Day, my beautiful mamas!  What was your knee jerk response to that statement? Be honest & real, because the real answer is crucial to your journey to self-love. As Kara Lowentheil from the Unf*ck Your Brain podcast put it: Valentine's Day ends up being a reflection of what you think of yourself. In this second episode of the F*ck It Mothering series on self love, we're t...

F*ck It Mothering is doing a self love series for the month of February, because learning to love yourself is the key to unlocking deeper levels of love in all your other relationships. This week: be your own BFF. Moms are so busy thinking of everyone else all the time, that we aren't thinking about ourselves let alone loving ourselves. But I believe self love is the secret to life (and have the r...

We all have a monster who lives in the back of our heads: shame. Shame comes in and whispers to moms, 'You're such a bad mom', whenever we do not live up to the unrealistic standard society has set for us. In this episode, moms will learn how to identify shame thoughts & how to break the cycle of shame by changing those thoughts. If you are tired of living in mom guilt, this episode is for you...

“It is never too late to be what you might have been” - George Eliot We have been given a shitty formula for how to do life. A formula that has left the mass majority of us in student loan debt; feeling stuck in jobs and careers that no longer feel right; and living with a dissatisfaction we are too ashamed to admit is there, because “we should be grateful; we have good lives”. But if this formula...