Mind Your Mama - Healing Burnout, Building Boundaries, and Finding Yourself

Nobody prepares you for this part of motherhood. The moment something hard happens with your child and you realize there's no chapter for it in any book. No group chat that's seen this exact thing. No one who really gets it. And the people, the institutions, the places that are supposed to show up for your kid? Sometimes they don't. In May 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public...

Summer break starts Friday. 3 kids. Home. All day. No camps. No vacations. Just us. And I am lowkey freaking out. Not because I don't love them. I do. But because my kids are energy vampires and I am trying to build a business and those two things? They do not always coexist peacefully. This week I'm getting honest about what summer actually looks like when you're a mom who's building something. T...

Protect your peace." You've seen it. You've said it. I've said it. And on the surface it sounds healthy. It sounds like boundaries. It sounds like self-care. But what if it's actually making us weaker, lonelier, and more divided than we've ever been? What if we've taken a real, valid concept — protecting yourself from people who genuinely harm you — and twisted it into an excuse to avoid anything...

For 30 days, I didn't touch my phone for the first 2 hours after I woke up. One morning, Emma told me about her day. And I actually LISTENED. Really listened. Put everything down, looked at her, heard her. She said: "Thanks for listening, Mommy. I love you to the core." To the core. And I realized: She's been asking me to listen this whole time. And I haven't been. My other daughter Norah wanted t...

Description: Your partner is draining your ability to build. And you're letting him. I'm not talking about the obviously shitty partners. I'm talking about the "good men." The ones who don't cheat, don't hit you, don't gamble away your savings. And because of that, they get a pass on everything else. You're so busy resenting him, so emotionally exhausted from carrying the entire relationship alone...

Description: I'm so tired of women saying "empower women" then ripping each other apart in the comments. Breastfeed? "Shut the fuck up. Is it your tit? No. Your baby? No. Then shut up about it." Holistic mom? "You lunatic! Science is science!" Don't medicate your kids? "Who the fuck are you to put heavy metals in your child?" Vaccinate, don't vaccinate. Co-sleep, sleep train. Who cares? We can't w...

Description: Last week I screamed at my daughter while trying to build my business. She looked at me with her perfect little face and said "I don't understand why you're being so mean. I'm not talking to you in a mean way." It broke my fucking heart. Here I am telling you to regulate your nervous system, and I'm not always living up to my own words. And it's HARD. After I apologized (and she said...

Staying broke is a form of trauma bonding. And the system is counting on you to stay there. I know that sounds harsh. But hear me out. There is COMFORT in staying broke. There is SAFETY in bonding over shared struggle. There is BELONGING in complaining about how expensive everything is. You're at the grocery store. You see the price of eggs. You turn to the stranger next to you and say, "Can you B...

Your brain is chemically addicted to fitting in. And it's sabotaging you every time you try to build something different. You WANT to start a business. You WANT financial independence. You WANT to break free from the 9-to-5. But every time you sit down to actually DO it — you suddenly need to clean the kitchen. You scroll for three hours. You convince yourself it's not the right time. And you thin...

The system is designed to keep you trapped. Corporate America is NOT set up for women to succeed. It's not set up for you to raise a family AND have financial freedom. It's not set up for you to leave a marriage if you need to. It's set up to keep you exhausted. Distracted. Dependent. So you keep working. So you keep showing up. So you keep being a good little cog in the wheel. And they've convinc...

Motherhood is the best thing that's ever happened to me. And also one of the hardest. And I'm done pretending those two things can't both be true at the same time. In this raw, unfiltered episode, I'm getting honest about what it really feels like to be drowning in motherhood. The exhaustion. The depletion. The feeling like your kids are little vampires sucking the soul out of you — even though yo...

I yelled at my 12-year-old daughter this morning. And then I sat in my car after drop off and cried. Not because she hurt my feelings. But because I saw myself. I saw my father. I saw every person who ever yelled at me when I was a kid and made me feel small and terrified. And I swore — I SWORE — I would never do that to my kids. In this raw, unfiltered episode, I'm getting brutally honest about w...

What happens when you're on a self-growth journey and your partner isn't? When you're in therapy, doing the work, unpacking your trauma — and your husband is doing none of it? In this raw, honest episode, Lauren gets vulnerable about the loneliness of being the only one doing the inner work in her marriage. She talks about the gap that's created when one person is evolving and the other is staying...

What happens when you're on a self-growth journey but your husband isn't? In this raw, real conversation, Lauren and co-host Emily get vulnerable about what it's really like to be changing, growing, and building a business while their partners stay exactly the same. If you've ever felt disconnected from your spouse because you're evolving and they're not — if you've caught yourself thinking "do we...

What do you do when betting on yourself feels like painting a target on your back? In this raw, unfiltered episode, Lauren shares the story she's been avoiding — growing up in an abusive household, surviving 20+ years with a stalker, and learning that staying small and invisible was the only way to stay safe. And then deciding to build a business anyway. If you've ever thought "I'm too broken to d...

Have you ever looked at your life — the kids, the husband, the routine — and thought, "This is everything I wanted... so why do I feel so empty?" If you've lost yourself in motherhood and don't know how to find your way back, this episode is for you. Today we're talking about maternal identity crisis, matrescence (the transformation into motherhood), and why wanting more doesn't make you a bad mom...

If you've landed here wondering who Lauren is and whether this podcast is for you — this episode is your answer. In this raw, unfiltered episode, Lauren shares the story she's never told in one place — from growing up in a volatile, abusive household, to being kicked out at 17 and living out of her car, to putting herself through nursing school, climbing to Director of Nursing, and still feeling l...

What if sleeping in separate beds from your husband was actually good for your marriage? What if scheduling sex was the secret to having more of it — and better? Lauren and Emily are back together for an unfiltered, judgment-free conversation that goes from sleep habits to self-worth, intimacy to parenting, and everything messy in between. This is the raw, real talk that most people are thinking b...

We were handed a blueprint. Go to school. Get good grades. Climb the ladder. Get married. Buy the house. Be grateful. Don’t complain. And if you do it all… you win. But what do you actually win? In this raw, unfiltered episode, Lauren pulls back the curtain on the “dream” so many high-achieving women were taught to chase — and what it cost her to finally admit it wasn’t hers. From becoming Directo...

In this episode of Mind Your Mama , we’re talking about the identities we learned to perform in order to feel loved. The good girl. The strong one. The fixer. The needed one. I’m sharing a personal story about how I tied my worth to being the one people came to — and what happened when someone close to me didn’t. This episode will challenge you to ask: Who did you learn you had to be to be loved?...

Overwhelm is something every mom knows far too well. The busy schedules, the pressure to say yes to everything, the guilt when you try to prioritize yourself, and the constant sense that you are running on empty. In this powerful conversation, Lauren is joined again by her friend and coach Emily Erb to unpack why overwhelm shows up, how it becomes a cycle, and what practical steps can help you bre...

So many women feel guilty for wanting more in their lives. More purpose, more creativity, more peace, more ease, more fulfillment. We’ve been conditioned to believe that wanting more somehow makes us ungrateful or selfish. In this episode, Lauren completely reframes that belief and shows you why your desire for more is actually a sign of self awareness, not selfishness. You’ll learn why your nervo...

Every woman reaches a moment where she feels a quiet pull… a whisper that says there is more waiting for her. More purpose. More freedom. More alignment. More her . This episode dives into that feeling, why it shows up, and why it is not selfish or ungrateful to listen to it. Lauren breaks down the guilt, fear and conditioning that keep women shrinking, and she walks you through what it actually l...

Burnout isn’t just exhaustion, overwhelm or too many responsibilities piled onto your shoulders. The deeper truth is this. Burnout is what happens when you’ve spent too long living out of alignment with who you really are and what you’re here to do. In this episode of The Mind Your Mama podcast, Lauren breaks down the emotional, physical and spiritual layers of burnout that so many moms carry with...

Feeling guilty for wanting more? More purpose, more income, more peace? You’re not alone, mama. In this powerful solo episode, Lauren opens up about the guilt that comes with growing as a mom and an entrepreneur, and why it’s time to stop “shoulding” all over yourself. She shares how guilt isn’t just a mindset. It’s a nervous system response that drains your energy, disrupts your sleep, and keeps...