I Just Have to Say with Laura Max

Mary Beth Arcidiacono, LMSW is a mother, social worker, consultant, researcher, and advocate. On August 8, 1998 she was involved in an accident with her four children on her family’s drive home from a vacation in Colorado. Her oldest son, Johnny, was killed, and his younger brother, Christopher, sustained a traumatic brain injury. Mary Beth started on a new path at the unexpected moment of her los...

Keri Henry started Wine & "Bites" with Keri after stumbling upon some pretty magical grape juice and a whole bunch of wisdom, which she's sharing on this latest episode of "Look Ma' No Hands."

Dr. Megan Pallister is a Houston-based OBGYN for the modern era; she does skype calls with her patients for their two-week postpartum appointment so they don't have to trek all the way to her office (can I get a Hallelujah), her Instagram is a transparent, dedicated platform that makes you feel like you have an on-call OB/BFF, and her perspective on delivering babies changed in a major way when sh...

Talking to Elizabeth Miller of Elizabeth Miller Therapy was like walking into a warm hug. She's a psychotherapist and marriage and family counselor who works with women in all stages of motherhood and holds space for their stories, grief, love and hope. 

Facebook groups assembled to "support" moms in all stages of motherhood might appear to be communities of support, but underneath the surface, they can be a hotbed for "mom shaming", intense criticism and online bullying. Amanda Ducach decided to do something when she started "Social Mama App", a "match.com for moms" that helps you find your mom soulmates in a supportive online forum. Listen to he...

"Don't look back: you're not going that way." - Wayne Dyer.  Basya Benshushan helps me piece together something I haven't understood until now: I'm not going back to who I was before, not even the person I was after I gave birth to my first daughter, Selma. There is no roadmap in my past for my future. With each child I bear, I grow more into who I am meant to be, and sometimes, I'm surprised...

The best of "Look Ma' No Hands" so far and the upcoming interviews I can't wait to share with you. Plus: my friend who's doing a "no-shop November" and why I'm inspired and the bedroom after babies - why nobody talks about it and every mama wants to talk about it.

Self-care is so much more than just getting a mani/pedi or doing an at-home facial. Self-care is about choices, prioritizing your needs and, as Megan of Willow Crowns puts it, making every decision with the goal of "preserving your emotional bandwidth." We only have so much energy to give to ourselves, our children, and our passions, so it makes sense that being meticulous about how we expend that...

Forget doing your own hair when you wake up to a baby screaming, right? Messy buns, yoga pants - most of us are familiar with this version of the "mom" uniform. But what if we have more options than we think? According to image consultant and personal stylist Natalie Weakly of "Signature Style", it all starts with curating your closet and shopping with some of her highly coveted wisdom. Tune in fo...

Can we still reach across the aisle in 2020? One of my best friends and host of the epic podcast "Hashtag No Filter" is turning the tables on me in this two-way interview where we go into why I started "Look Ma', No Hands", the truth behind my political convictions and why I think the intersection between motherhood and politics is so important. 

Chanda Scott's daughter was a perfectly-developing 15-month old when suddenly, everything changed. Chanda came home to find her daughter has an escalating fever and was listless: she could no longer walk, talk or do any of the things that she was capable of just days before. She would later find out that her daughter had contracted Kawasaki disease, also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome,...

I had a 30-hour labor with my firstborn that concluded in a c-section, several months of trauma and some physical agony to follow. I went for the big "VBAC" (Vaginal birth after c-section) with my second birth and now I have a lot to share about the process and what it really means to birth a baby...and a mother. I'm sitting down with the two birth doulas who helped me birth my second daughter Vio...

For the first-ever episode of Look Ma', No Hands, I'm sitting down with functional nutritionist and self-proclaimed "Period Guru" Jenna Longoria to talk about hormonal imbalance, postpartum anxiety and depression, the side effects of hormonal birth control and how we can use what we know about our monthly cycles to empower ourselves throughout the month and live free-er of what weighs us down horm...