Torn: Finding a Mom Life Balance

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they discuss making decisions for your family during the pandemic. Listen to the commonalities of being a parent for the first time and navigating these uncertain times. Share the podcast- Rate & Review. Follow us @tornmlb on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Join hosts Athena and Mims in their discussion of the current season of “No Choice” - summer during a pandemic with limited outlets for recharging, connection with friends and family or enjoying culture and varied activities.

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they discuss the current season of transition and what is in store in the fall. How do rites of passage help us embrace change? What does that look like in a pandemic? How can we embrace this phase of the parenthood journey? Torn Tribe, please write in your comments, anecdotes, mends and request episode topics at tornmlb@gmail.com. Follow the podcast on Instagram, Fac...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they revisit the goals they set for 2020. Listen what’s on their minds, what’s on a roll and what has to be reconsidered as is often a mom’s reality. Be inspired to check how you are doing on your own goals, consider an adjustment of focus or just reflect on what means the most for you and your family’s well being right now. Torn Tribe we are here in the struggle and...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they honor their Abuela by sharing the four pillars that grounded her life and works- FIGURE, FAITH, FOOD and FAMILY. Listen to Athena and Mims share memories and the imprint Abuela had on them and many others through a life of bravery and grace. Be inspired to create your own legacy as women and on your motherhood journey through connection and love.

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they chat with Andrea Abraham a corporate, mom blogger that encourages her followers @astoriainheels not to lose their voice or style on the mom journey. Tune in to hear great tips on setting boundaries, figuring out what you want and need and how to keep being true to yourself. You can find Andrea’s blog, Astoria in Heels, at www.astoriainheels.com and reach her at a...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they reveal their most torn moment in motherhood thus far. This installment revisits the experiences that lead to the podcast as a safe space to admit how truly torn motherhood can be. Reach out with torn moments or mends to tornmlb@gmail.com - Follow the podcast at IG, Facebook and Twitter: @tornmlb. Choose grace, Torn Tribe!

Join hosts Athena and Mims indulge in, Torn Moments, their fantasy ideas for family time, family fun, making memories and exploring the world with children and their venting about the way reality squashes their hopes with the way things actually turn out. Please share your fantasy thoughts vs. reality, pose solution or anecdotes to tornmlb@gmail.com and follow the podcast on Instagram, Facebook an...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they share the often hidden torn mommy thoughts that are often felt by most moms but go unsaid because they inspire guilt, shame and judgement. Listen, follow and share so that someone can feel a little less torn.

Join hosts Athena and Mims on this special episode marking a year of podcasting. We are celebrating a year of Torn Finding a Mom Life Balance - Join our Anniversary Promotion: Enter to win Torn MLB swag by tagging a friend on social media - FB IG or Twitter and sharing a lesson from parenthood between 3/20 and 3/27! We look forward to sharing our favorite lessons on a future episode and sending a...

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they discuss family parenting values and traditions they have prioritized in their own families. Gather suggestions for friendly family competition and how to explore your community and city together.

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they share bedtime storytelling memories of their childhood and tell how they make more reading memories with their children at bedtime. Gain some book suggestions to request from your nearest library branch or to add to your home library. Check out their IG and Facebook posts for titles and authors.

Join Torn hosts as they discuss motherhoods impact on sweet, elusive sleep. Listen in as they reminisce about simpler days and wasted hours of slumber and the strategies they practice now to get rest without the guilt or feeling like they are falling behind.

Join hosts Athena and Mims as they reveal their perspective on their own body image through pregnancy and after. How did you respond to the physical impacts of pregnancy? Do you still see the woman you recognize in the mirror?

Join hosts Athena & Mims as they discuss all that the first few weeks of a new year can entail. They share suggestions of support for Torn Tribe to offer and wrap up with the weekly mend.

Happy New Year! Join hosts Athena and Mims as they review suggestions for how to begin a new year refreshed and renewed from a Huffington Post article, “16 Ways to Hit The Refresh Button In The New Year” by Sasha Bronner. Consider some new practices, make the goal of adding or subtracting just one thing to begin a shift. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/16-ways-to-refresh-your-l...

Join hosts as they interview Mildred Ruttenberg and gain another perspective to the motherhood journey. Mildred is a homemaker, wife and mom of a two and a half year old. Listen to the gems she discovered through motherhood and gain suggestions about keeping yourself in mind while being home full time. Mildred’s mommy joys, challenges and surprises reveal that mothers have so much in common if the...

Join hosts as they interview Ada Duran a mom-preneur, teacher and single mom and discuss starting a business, stages of motherhood and worthiness. Listen for suggestions on how to take the journey with grace. Reach Ada @inagruv on Instagram and aduran@inagruv.com

Join hosts Athena and Mims while they share how they prioritize date night. Do you find a way to keep date night on the calendar? Do you have date night rules? Listen in for suggestions on how to prioritize, plan and have quality date nights to nurture your adult partnership.

This week join Torn hosts Athena and Mims as they discuss their experiences with quiet moments of reflection. What is there to gain from consistent reflection? How do you make it happen?

Join Torn hosts Athena and Mims as they discuss the process of choosing schools - profiles, tours, personal experiences and who tour children really are.

Join Torn hosts as they focus on a mend they recommend.

Join cohosts as they discuss what causes a mom to feel torn. How can you be present and fulfilled? How can you start feeling a little less torn?

Join Torn cohosts as they discuss the Back to School season. How do you prepare, manage emotions and work for present over perfect when setting the kids up for a successful new school year.

Join Torn hosts discussing how to deal with the negative perspectives of motherhood in the workplace and in day to day life?  How do work environments take into account family life or lack this perspective?