Motherhood Uncut

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Motherhood isn't hard because your child is hard. It's hard because of the beliefs you were never meant to carry. After 20 years and thousands of moms, I've found three truths that change everything, not by making motherhood easier on paper, but by changing how you experience...

Alexis has spent twenty years building an impressive career. She’s a senior executive at a global technology company, leading teams, influencing strategy, and working 60-70 hour weeks. From the outside, she’s incredibly successful. But beneath that success is a question she can no longer ignore: Is this sustainable? She joins Kate for a live coaching conversation expecting to explore whether she s...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Trying hard to be a good mom and actually connecting with your child use two completely different parts of your brain. The harder you push to get it right, the more disconnected your child can feel. You are not failing. You might just be stuck in the wrong brain. In this episode, I'm g...

Guests: Melissa Hampton, Founder, Hampton Wealth Management  | Kaitlyn Carlson, Founder & CEO, Theory Planning Partners Can women build ambitious careers without sacrificing their children? Kate sits down with financial advisors and entrepreneurs Melissa Hampton and Kaitlyn Carlson for an honest conversation about motherhood, leadership, and creating success on your own terms. Together they ex...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have done the therapy. The apps. The breathwork. The journaling. You have been consistent. And the anxiety is still there. You are not doing it wrong. But the effort itself might be exactly what is keeping it in place. When something goes wrong, high achievers work harder. That strategy...

In this episode of Motherhood Uncut, Kate sits down with psychotherapist, author, and Jungian teacher Satya Doyle Byock for a wide-ranging conversation about motherhood, identity, anxiety, and the deeper psychological and spiritual dimensions of becoming a parent. Together they explore: • Why motherhood often feels like a crisis for high-achieving women • The limitations of an achievement-based ap...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Everything you have been taught about good parenting is probably focused on the wrong thing. You have read the books. You know the scripts. You know what you are supposed to say when your toddler melts down. You are still anxious. Your child is still struggling. The problem is not your know...

Welcome to Motherhood Uncut . I’m your host, Kate Kripke. Today’s episode is a live coaching call with Melissa, a mother of two young boys who is moving through a deeply tender season: caring for her kids, showing up in a demanding career, and facing the possible loss of her own mother. Together, we talk about grief, old family patterns, the fear of repeating what we lived through as children, and...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been treating this like a hormone problem. So have your doctors. That is exactly why it is still here. The supplements, the breathing exercises, the 2 a.m. articles telling you to wait it out. None of it is touching the actual source. Your anxiety is not running on hormones. It is...

This week, world renowned coach Christine Hassler gets real about what it actually looks like to be a career-driven mother, what wasn't working, what shifted, and where she is today. She shares practical ways to get grounded and clear: having a "grown-up day," loving without worry, and how the stories from our childhood show up in our parenting — and how to work with them. Raw, hone...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You have been running the math for years. Calculating whether your child is getting enough of you. Comparing yourself to the mom who stayed home. And no matter how you run the numbers, you always come up short. What if the math was never the problem? In this episode, I'm going to show...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You yelled. Or you snapped. Or you went completely silent when your child needed you to stay. And now the guilt is louder than anything that actually happened.  Here is what most parenting content gets completely wrong: the rupture is not what damages your child. The silence, the shame spir...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your career did not damage your bond. Daycare drop-off did not hurt your attachment. But there is something affecting your child's wellbeing right now, and most working moms miss it entirely because it has nothing to do with how many hours they work and everything to do with what happe...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call You've tried everything. The calm voice, the validated feelings, the gentle parenting script. Nothing worked because you were solving the wrong problem. Your child was never giving you a hard time. They were having a hard time. And what they needed had nothing to do with your technique...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Postpartum anxiety is not a hormonal disorder. It is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do when it believes you are unsafe.  The problem is not your mind. The problem is that no one has ever taught your nervous system that emotional discomfort can be safe. In this epi...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call If you think your postpartum anxiety is worse because you are not strong enough, you are wrong.  The women who achieved the most before motherhood often struggle the most after, not because they are weak, but because the very strengths that made them successful are now working directly agai...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Your toddler doesn't respond to your calm words. They respond to your nervous system. That's why no parenting script works consistently until you fix this one thing first. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Why toddler tantrums keep escalating despite doing everything right 0:21 Your toddler resp...

You're not overwhelmed because you have too much to do. You're overwhelmed because your nervous system is treating uncertainty like danger. And every productivity trick you've tried is making it worse. Here's the real reason motherhood feels so overwhelming, and a three-minute practice that creates actual calm. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system...

📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call Almost everything the internet has told you about secure attachment is either incomplete or flat out wrong. In this video, I break down the five myths keeping high-achieving moms stuck in guilt, and the one practice that builds real security between you and your child. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Wh...

You focus on sleep because you're exhausted. You wait for your hormones to balance. You take the supplements, eat better, get outside. And the anxiety is still there. That's because none of those things address what's actually causing it. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a lice...

The guilt hits at work when you think about your child. Then it hits at home when you think about work. You're not failing at balance. You're trying to fix the wrong problem. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal mental health specialist....

Your baby keeps crying. Nothing you try is working. The problem isn't your baby. It's not your technique either. Here's what's actually happening, and why it starts with your nervous system. 📌 Find out what your nervous system specifically needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm a licensed clinical psychotherapist and maternal mental health spec...

Postpartum anxiety doesn't go away because most people are treating the wrong thing. You've tried therapy, apps, and breathing exercises. The anxiety keeps coming back. Here's what's actually behind it, and one practice you can try tonight. 📌 Book a free Assessment Call to find out what your nervous system needs: www.calmconnectionsystem.com/call I'm Kate Kripke. I'm...

Today’s episode is a short one. But it’s also one that you don’t want to miss because I am talking with you about 3 very common habits of high-achieving women that lead directly to anxiety, guilt, and overwhelm in motherhood. And the thing is, you may not see these habits as problematic because they have likely led you to huge success and achievement in the rest of your life. So, it’s likely that...

Today I am talking with Anna Rahe about the ways that our bodies tell us exactly what we need to find peace, fulfillment, and wellbeing both physically and beyond.  For the past 25+ years, Anna Rahe has explored a transformative and empowering relationship with fascia, helping people invest in their health, restore vitality, and heal themselves using proprietary tools she developed. As the founder...