Torn: Finding a Mom Life Balance

🎙️ Episode 159: Mother's Day Offering Part I: Easing into Summer with Intention and Clarity In this all-new episode of Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance , co-hosts Athena and Mims gift the Torn Tribe a much-needed summer planning reset. With school winding down, it's easy to feel the pressure—but this episode is your invitation to approach the season with purpose, flexibility, and family co...

🎙️ New Episode Alert! Spring is in the air—and with it comes a fresh opportunity to reflect. In this episode of Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance, co-hosts Athena and Mims explore what it means to engage in active reflection during the spring season. As the school year winds down, they share real talk on everything from state testing stress and spring wardrobe overhauls to summer plans, friendship...

🔁 REPLAY Episode #98: A Note of Gratitude 💭 Special Note: Gratitude and anxiety take up the same residency in our brains—they can’t coexist. So when anxiety starts to creep in, let it be a signal to invite gratitude in. Practicing gratitude is one of the most powerful ways to guard your mind and bring yourself back to peace. Revisiting a 2022 episode: On this week’s replay episode of Torn: Findi...

🎙️ New Episode Alert! Women’s History Month: The Power of Her Love (Part II) In this powerful continuation of our Women’s History Month celebration, Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance co-hosts Athena and Mims explore the trailblazing parenting models shaped by extraordinary women who’ve influenced their mom journey. From spiritual strength to emotional vulnerability, discover the moments these model...

🎙️In this special Women’s History Month episode of Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance, co-hosts Athena and Mims reflect on the incredible women who have shaped their parenting journey. Discover the lessons they’ve learned from these inspiring figures—their wisdom, strength, and nurturing skills—and how Athena and Mims apply those lessons in their own mom playbook. ✨ Plus, don’t miss our all-new Tor...

🎙️ New Episode Alert! Is Self-Doubt Driving My Parenting? Join co-hosts Athena and Mims in this bi-weekly installment of Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance as they dive into the impact of self-doubt in parenting. Learn how to recognize moments when self-doubt takes over, define its role in your parenting journey, and explore strategies to manage it—so it doesn’t interfere with your child’s confidenc...

Join co-hosts Athena and Mims in this bi-weekly installment of Torn: Finding a Mom-Life Balance as they dive into the question: Is "Mom-Life Balance" even possible? 💭✨ Listen in as they unpack how balance became part of the podcast title and how their conversations, interviews, and real-life moments have reshaped their understanding of what balance truly means. 💡 When have you achieved it? Lost...

Join cohost Athena and Mims for an interview. Betsie Barker has an approachable style of hospitality that inspired Athena to reconsider what it takes and how to to embrace imparting the gift of hospitality. Listen in to hear how Batsie approaches preparation to host, shares that experience with her family and encourages Athena, Mims and the Torn Tribe to lean in to extending an invitation, open do...

Join cohost Athena and Mims in their first new episode of 2025. Learn their words for the year and why they encourae the Torn Tribe to consider choosing a word of focus or theme for the year. How do you start the year with purpose and intention? What are you working to manifest in 2025? Check out the podcasts new Torn Thought Thursdays on socials. Reach out with feedback, torn moments or mends to...

Join cohost Athena and Mims in their first episode of the new year (2023). Hear the intentions they set for personal growth, quality time and mindset shifts for themselves that will surely influence their families and specifically share a model for their children to be reflective and intentional with their most precious commodity- time. How do you start the year with purpose and intention? What ar...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they consider how to spread grace with the octogenarians of the family- what would the holidays be without the older generation and the memories we keep making together each year while near or far. Reach out with feedback, torn moments or mends to tornmlb@gmail.com - Listen, Follow and Share the podcast at IG, Facebook and Twitter: @tornmlb. Choose Grace, Torn Tribe!

Join cohosts, Athena and Mims for this bi-weekly installment. As we close out 2024, we’re taking a moment to reflect and connect with you, our Torn Tribe. In this special episode, we’ll revisit the parenting wins, challenges, and day-to-day moments that were shaped by this year’s podcast topics—all with a fun, sitcom-style flashback twist! Now, it’s your turn! We’re planning for 2025 and want to k...

Join cohosts, Athena and Mims for this bi-weekly installment unpacking indecision inspired by The Hidden Brain Podcast Episode "Emotions 2.0: The Benefits of Mixed Emotions". What do you think about indecision? How do you view the indecisive? Perhaps this episode will help you reframe your view of indecision and help you embrace indecision and the possibilities it allows. Torn Tribe, rate review a...

Join cohosts, Athena and Mims for an episode about strategies for shopping for your growing children for various seasons, growth spirts and unique preferences. Tune in to hear some tips and hacks for tackling the wardrobe they will wear with less stress. What are your go to shops and brands that last wear and tear? Have you tried a capsule? Do you dare brave the dressing room with your children? T...

Join cohosts, Athena and Mims for their reflection inspired by a devotional prompt in Strength in All Seasons by Julie Lavender: "If Jesus Talked To You About Mom Guilt, What Would He Say?". What might this perspective offer? How do the sisters define "mom guilt"? What causes it? How do we identify it and release it, adjust expectations of ourselves and choose grace? For more on getting "Beyond th...

Join cohosts Athena and Mims for this closer examination of the "Mend" they are often advising the Torn Tribe to embrace. Why mend? What does mending mean to you? What can often stand in the way of mending? The susters encourage you to intentionally make time to mend and resist the urge to want to earn the mending behavior, activity or pause. Offer yourself undeserved/ unearned favor. Torn Tribe,...

Join cohosts Athena and Mims for an interview with a parental consultant and child therapist, Rotem Magen, from Israel. Rotem specializes in parenting through separation and divorce. She is married and has 5 children. Rotem has her private parenting consultant company, Hakol Kashur which means ‘it’s all connected’ in Hebrew. Through her holistic training, Rotem came to understand how deeply all of...

Join cohost Athena and Mims in this episode spotlighting one of the cohost, Athena. Learn about the experiences and influences that motivated Athena to pursue athletics, a major in international business and how she was guided to became a consultant. Listen as Athena reflects on her strength in problem solving and how she shares them with her family, children and community. Reach out with question...

Join cohost Athena and Mims in this episode spotlighting one of the cohost, Mims. Learn about Mims' education and career and its influence on her parenting. Listen to anecdotes about the choices made and lessons learned. Mims reflects on her strengths in relationship building and personal development, and how she applies these skills in her career and parenting. Tune in next week to hear about...

Join cohosts Athena and Mims in this biweekly installment of the podcast where they consider FUN. What is true fun defined by author Catherine Price in The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again? Have you taken stock of how much fun you allow in your schedule regularly? What do you do for fun? Is it true fun? We hope you will add more fun to your days and share that priority with your families. Rea...

Summer Holiday REPLAY - Join cohosts Athena and Mims in their bi-weekly episode considering how to prepare for the next season in their children’s lives and how they assess the needs ahead and begin to gather the tools to be best prepared and equipped on the new stretch of the parenting journey. Do you have advice and strategies? What’s in your toolbox and “first-aid” kits for new kid seasons? Rea...

Summer Holiday REPLAY - Join cohosts Athena and Mims in the second episode of the Beyond the Fear series focused on the unknown and unpredictable scenarios that can cause parents to have anxiety and paralyze us with fear. What are the thoughts you cook up in your mind that have not occurred but IF they were to happen you believe you’ll be left with few tools to address the situation? How do you id...

Summer Holiday REPLAY - Join cohosts Athena and Mims for their biweekly episode focusing on where we are at this point in the year in the busyness of the parenthood race. Do your family routines need a pitstop to refresh and tune up for responsibilities and demands of the year. Torn Tribe, how does your family keep tuned up? Reach out about this episode. Share your torn moments or mends to tornmlb...

Join cohosts Athena and Mims in this biweekly installment of the podcast where the sisters discuss the benefits of taking family vacations with various generations of the extended Torn Tribe. Does your family vacation with the grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, aunts or uncles? What are some of your highlights? Most memorable moments? Funny quotes? Tips? Share some of your destinations, sugg...

Join cohost Athena and Mims in the latest bi-weekly episode where the sisters discuss how to stay grounded in joy during the challenging moments of parenthood. Torn Tribe, parenthood is a work of sacrifice and love. What do you do to maintain the joy and find peace when tumultuous phases of the journey arise? What helps you to persevere on the infinite path during peaks as well as valleys along th...