Imperfect Mommying: Better Parenting through Self-Healing with Alysia Lyons

In this episode, Victoria and I discuss listening to your body’s intuition, breaking generational body shaming and learning better ways of eating healthy.  Victoria is a food & body image coach for women, specializing in helping women to stop dieting & love their bodies through learning how to eat intuitively. With all the pressure to eat perfectly & have a perfect body, it’s no w...

In this episode, Stephanie and I discuss the blessings and struggles of being a mompreneurial and how to overcome the guilt that comes with both.   Stephanie Chapman lives in Northern Colorado with her husband, five children, and four dogs. She specializes in coaching and mentoring entrepreneur moms on how to become empowered, determined, organized, and passionate in their lives and business....

In this episode, Emily and I discuss what self-care really means and how to take care of yourself without the guilt Emily Rose Hardy is a mindset coach for moms. She works with moms to prioritize themselves without guilt in order to feel more fulfilled in life within and beyond motherhood. With a background in education, is passionate about redefining what it means to be a mom, and challenging the...

In this episode, Chanlyn and I discuss being a new mom and the challenges and joys that come along with it.     Chanlyn is a Certified International Pediatric Sleep Coach, Newborn Care Specialist, Safe Sleep Ambassador and an educational coach with the learning app, Kinedu. She is the CEO of the Pediatric Consultant Buisness, Sound Sleep 4 Bubbies LLC. She has dedicated her career t...

In this episode, Thalia and I discuss perimenopause, treating your period like a report card and being a knackered mom. Thalia Pellegrini is a registered nutritional therapist based in London, England. After a decade as a TV presenter for the BBC, Thalia decided to retrain as a nutritionist because she wanted to help change the lives of women. She qualified in 2009 following a three-year course at...

In this episode, I celebrate my birthday by sharing 10 of the 40 lessons I've learned in my 40 years. I will be writing a series of blog posts to go along with my 40 lessons. You can read them in the weeks to come on my website at www.alysialyons.com  Connect with me:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/momsupportcoach/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/momsupportcoach Facebook: https://www...

In this episode, Katie and I discuss the importance of clear communication with tweens/teens and practicing conscious parenting. Katie Pratley is a former secondary school teacher turned conscious parenting coach. Through her coaching programs and 1:1 work, Katie helps her clients navigate parenting from another perspective, re-connecting with their children and, with positive communication patter...

In this episode, Liz and I discuss the four pillars of wellness and making small changes for lasting health. Liz Patterson is a Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Holistic Wellness Coach. She is the founder of ProActive Wellness Coaching, which provides the tools, education and accountability to stop hiding, and build sustainable habits for a life full of energy, confidence and hope. IG: @p...

In this episode, AnnMaria and I discuss the power of education, imperfect mummying and the effects 7 generations of our ancestors have made us who we are today and how we are shaping the next 7 generations. After a stint in juvenile hall, AnnMaria ran away from her last foster home at age 15 and, with a fake ID, got a job and an apartment. By age 19 she had her bachelor’s degree, an MBA at 21. She...

In this episode, Renae and I discuss creating community and support online. Renae is a Life Transformation Coach who helps Mums in business thrive, not just survive. Her journey, like many others, has had its ups and downs but through her own personal experiences and struggles, she has overcome feeling overwhelmed and stressed in life, to a place where she's living a life by design that she loves....

In this episode, Sasha and I discuss various ways to ditch mom guilt, create self-care routines and craft the life you really want. Sasha Morozov is a former executive who holds a Master’s in Social Work and is the founder of sasha x home. When Sasha isn’t chasing after her two sons, she now utilizes her clinical skills to coach women who are killing it at work but feel like they are failing at ho...

In this episode, Ellen and I discuss her journey over coming addiction, fertility struggles and learning a little more about self-compassion. Ellen is an author, sober twin mom, recovery advocate, and infertility warrior. She has over 5 years in a recovery program and dealt with infertility for several years. She represents women who are dealing with the struggles and the shame that comes from fee...

My fine home is the anti-Martha Stewart home. It's not, don't put your feet on the couch, put a coaster down with your glasses, you're gonna make rings. My kind of home is the one where everybody wants to go. It's where your friends want to hang out. It's where your kids friends want to hang out. And that's really key because you need to know what's happening in your family's life. And if you're t...

In this episode, Daphne and I discuss the journey back to who we really are and living life your way. Daphne helps soul-led visionary leaders feel safe, solid and secure to share their magic with the world and make more money with ease and flow. As a professionally certified and credentialed Numerologist and Intuitive Success and Mental Fitness Coach Daphne delivers insanely powerful insights that...

In this episode, Sabrina and I discuss creating healthy relationships with food, including emotional eating. Sabrina is a Health Coach who helps women who feel like they’ve been dieting forever develop a healthy relationship with food so that they eat the foods they love without guilt or fear of losing control and focus their time & energy on other things in life that really matter. Food Freed...

You tried to figure out the impossible task of juggling work and family, and you hear over and over and over again that you just need a lot of help. We just need to be organized. We need to try a little bit harder. You're telling moms that they're doing something wrong. It's telling moms that they're missing something. It's telling moms that if you were better, you would be able to do it all. Doin...

I struggled after the birth of my first daughter with extreme fatigue and anxiety and mood issues. It was a huge shift in how I was feeling. I went to my traditional provider, and they ran some basic labs, and everything came back normal. But I was not going to accept that as an answer. That was really my first introduction with functional medicine. I really started to do my own research and came...

It's this wonderful, beautiful, sometimes hectic little crazy dance between learning and growing and teaching that we as parents and them as children do. And so if we do a whole family life and leadership coaching, then we are helping everyone grow together. It's rising all the ships at the same time. And it creates this beautiful array, this beautiful tapestry of vulnerability and honesty within...

What are your daily struggles? What do you need to talk about? What is the most important thing in your life, to your children in your family? You know, I started asking these questions, and girls just started responding. It was built on the fact that I knew there was this need. We knew there was this response. We saw the statistics and we're like, man, 85% of mama's suffer with fatigue. Lo and be...

I have struggled with my health for a long, long time. And when my husband and I decided we wanted to start a family, I kind of started thinking to myself that I didn't think my health was in the right place for that. I wanted to be healthy when I got pregnant, be as healthy as possible, and be confident with my pregnancy. I decided to take a look into the natural health world, I found that conven...

It's all about how we make weight loss easy, fun, effective, and sustainable. It's a lot of things that we often don't associate with weight loss or getting healthy and actually enjoying the body that we're in. As a mom of a 10 month old, I definitely can resonate and relate to a lot of women out there who feel like we are doing so much imperfectly. There can be a lot of shame around it. We often...

We really do waste more time and energy just being irritable about the fact that it has to be done. It boils down to it's your choice. You can choose to have a dirty kitchen or an unmade bed, or you could choose to take the minute or five minutes that it takes to do the task and be happy all day long. Remind yourself that you want to do it and visualize the result. Say I want to do this because I...

The difference from someone who did take their child, who displayed the signs and symptoms that seem a little unusual, you are that much more helpful in terms of setting your child up for hitting their milestones for developing those social skills. The social cues and perspective are where the kiddos on the spectrum really struggle. When we start early, it's recommended as soon as we start to see...

One of the things that I found that as a parent of a teenager is they get to a point where they don't want to share their emotions with their parents, and they become quite private. They can often be quite ashamed of it. They don't want to see therapists for the same reason. They just get stuck in this little world of sort of misery and what I call non-thought, because they're just perceiving ever...

If you're listening and you're not an entrepreneur, but you're listening because you're wanting to improve yourself. That's the entrepreneurial mindset. You're wanting to grow. You're wanting to become kind of that best version of yourself. Schools are teaching the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset. And I was teaching a group of women the difference between growth and entrepreneurial, and th...