No Guilt Mom | Overcoming Mom Guilt, Parenting Tips, & Self Care for Moms

Has this happened to you? You walk into the living room and see your kid’s shoes thrown on the couch. You calmly ask your kid to take their shoes off the couch and put them away. You come back later, and there is your kid, and there are the shoes. Still on the couch. So you ask again, and your kid tells you that they will do it in a minute. Then you come into the room again, and nothing has happened. Neither the shoes nor your kid has moved. You absolutely lose it! You yell at your kid, they yell back at you or start crying, and then you end up putting the shoes away yourself.  If this sounds familiar to you, then you will love this episode. It was made just for you! We will share practical ways you can keep your cool as well as strategies you can use in the moment and after it, using our simple 5 step process: P.E.A.C.E. Resources We Shared:Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!  No Guilt Mom Podcast Episode 042 Signs of Anxiety and Depression in Your Kid with Katie Hurley  No Guilt Mom Podcast Episode 024 The Secret to Connecting with Your Kids with Tina Payne Bryson PhD The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel MD and Tina Payne Bryson PhD  The best mom is a happy mom. To better take care of you, download our No Guilt Mom mindset here . These reminders will help you second guess less, and feel more confidence every day in your parenting. Visit No Guilt Mom  Rate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! No Guilt Mom You Tube Channel Check us out and subscribe to be notified every time we have new videos added for parents and kids!Check out our favorite deals and discounts from our amazing sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we speak with Kim Hopkins, LICSW who’s a Collaborative & Proactive Solutions Trainer and Director of Outreach for Lives in the Balance. There she works with parents, educators, and providers to share the research that shows kids with concerning behaviors aren’t lacking motivation, they’re lacking skills, especially those related to flexibility, adaptability, emotion regulation, frustration tolerance, and problem-solving.  We talk about how we often mislabel our kids' motivations for bad behavior as something done for attention, when often, it’s a matter of our kids simply missing skills. Kim share some great examples of times when kids had meltdowns and/or extreme behaviors that were damaging their relationships at home and school, and simply using 3 steps in collaborative problem solving the situations were resolved quickly and the relationship between child, parents, and teachers remained intact.  Resources We Shared:Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today! No Guilt Mom You Tube Channel Check us out and subscribe to be notified every time we have new videos added for parents and kids! Lives in the Balance A non-profit organization that helps parents, educators and caregivers gain the tools needed to help kids solve the problems that are causing their concerning behavior…without shame, blame, or conflict. The Explosive Child by Dr. Ross Greene The best mom is a happy mom. To better take care of you, download our No Guilt Mom mindset here . These reminders will help you second guess less, and feel more confidence every day in your parenting. Visit No Guilt Mom Rate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast!Check out our favorite deals and discounts from our amazing sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s estimated that about 32% of American teens have anxiety. Are we surprised? Our kids have a lot on their plates: getting good grades, social media, and everything involved with that, navigating and maintaining friendships. And it gets even more difficult when you add anxiety to the mix. And as moms, we often feel like it’s our job to take it all on, support, and even fix it all for our kids. Guess what? You’re not supposed to be your child’s therapist! You can’t fix it all. In this episode, we are talking with Regine Galanti. She’s the founder of Long Island Behavioral Psychology, a private practice in NY, and Author of Anxiety Relief for Teens her newest book, When Harley Has Anxiety. She specializes in helping kids, teens, and parents manage anxiety through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and specifically giving them tools to help them face their fears. We share all the fears we have as parents about our kids anxiety, how our own beliefs can affect how we view anxiety in our kids and what we can actually do to help our kids if we feel they’re struggling with anxiety. Resources We Shared:Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!When Harley Has Anxiety: A Fun CBT Skills Activity Book to Help Manage Worries and Fears by Regine Galanti PhD - When worries and fears come along, Harley the Hedgehog can handle them—and so can your child! A fun activity book for coping with anxiety, for kids ages 5 to 9. Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress by Regine Galanti PhD - Is anxiety disrupting your life? With proven CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques, this book can be your guide out of the spiraling stress of anxiety and get you back on track to living a happy and healthy life.Join our FREE No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Visit No Guilt Mom Check out our favorite deals and discounts from our amazing sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As moms, we often put our needs last. So many of us believe it’s our job to take care of everyone in our family all the time and if there’s anything left over, then we can maybe do something small for ourselves. But that’s just a great way to burn ourselves out. If we could just make a shift in our thought process on where we fall in the family needs hierarchy and then start speaking up for what we need, we could accomplish so much more! In this episode, we’re discussing how to advocate for yourself with Heather Hansen. She’s a self-advocacy expert, on-air legal analyst, author, and award-winning trial attorney. Her specialty is self-advocacy and how to use those tools in everyday situations.  We talk about the importance of putting yourself on that list of priorities and how to ditch the guilt so we can truly be happy getting what we need in life.Resources We Shared:Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today! Heather Hansen Heather Hansen is a self-advocacy expert, on-air legal analyst, author, and award-winning trial attorney. Advocate to Win: 10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It by Heather Hansen - Advocate to Win shares how you can use the tools of a trial attorney to ask for what you want—and get it. The Elegant Warrior: How To Win Life's Trials Without Losing Yourself by Heather Hansen - Using real-life case studies and personal stories from the fast-paced courtroom arena, Hansen teaches you how to triumph over your own struggles.  Dress For Success Dress for Success is a nationwide organization that serves job-ready women from nonprofit organizations including domestic violence agencies, homeless shelters, and job-training programs.Join our FREE No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Visit No Guilt MomCheck out our favorite deals and discounts from our amazing sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You’ve tried everything and no matter what you do- it just doesn’t seem to work with your kids. It feels like your kids are parenting-reistant. And you are so done!But hold up. Chances are good that you might have some common misconceptions about consequences. No need to worry though, we have the top 5 reasons why consequences aren't working for you and given you strategies to try to help fix them!Resources We Shared: Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Learn all about Balance VIP HERE!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we are talking with Lisa Woodruff who’s the founder of Organize 365 and the author of several books including her newest book “The Paper Solution”. Organize 365® empowers individuals to learn the functional skills of home and paper organization so that they have time to pursue their passions and share their innate talents with the world. We talk about organization and more so how paper organization can not only break us if don't deal with it, but how to determine what we need in real-life emergencies. Resources We Shared: Organize 365- Lisa Woodruff founded Organize 365. Organize 365 offers practical organization solutions.  The Paper Solution: What to Shred, What to Save, and How to Stop It From Taking Over Your LifeJoin our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over time things evolve. And that applies to everything in life. Lots of times, the questions and challenges we faced as kids, aren’t the same ones our own kids face. Not the least of which applies to those big questions around sexuality. And how do you answer their questions or have a conversation with your kids about them, when chances are good, that you never had this conversation as a kid yourself? That’s exactly why we called in our friend and sexual education expert Brittany McBride.  In this episode, we welcome back Brittany McBride, MPH, the Associate Director of Sex Education at Advocates for Youth. This organization supports school districts and youths by serving adults to provide complete, inclusive sex education. She helps parents/caregivers/and youth serving adults provide facts based complete sex education in a non-shaming and affirming way.  We tackle those touchy situations where you aren’t sure how to answer your kids questions or wonder what’s the best way to approach the topic.  Resources We Shared: Brittany McBride Sex Education at Advocates for Youth Advocates for Youth works alongside thousands of young people here in the U.S. and around the globe as they fight for sexual health, rights, and justice. Amaze videos AMAZE takes the awkward out of sex ed for parents and their kids. It’s real info in fun, animated videos that give you all the answers you actually want to know about sex, your body and relationships.Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are doing an ENCORE of our most popular episode this week: 5 Steps to End the Backtalk!Pushing limits and testing boundaries is a normal part of a child’s development- I know, it sucks, right? And it’s even more frustrating when it’s Backtalk!In this episode, we share why backtalk happens and 5 easy steps to put an end to it!Resources We Shared:Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Learn all about Balance VIP HERE!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! Download the Transcripts Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So many of us are told that if we were a “good” mom that we would be able to do everything perfectly and be fulfilled solely in our identity as a mom, but guess what- that’s a lie!  Why is it that we get so wrapped up in checking things off our to-do list that we miss out on the things that truly fill our soul and help us be the best versions of ourselves? In this episode, we’re joined by Ryan Haddon, Life & Spiritual Coach, Meditation Teacher, and Hypnotherapist. She helps women create more happy, healthy, and more balanced lives. She’s the daughter of an international supermodel and actress and had a wonderfully unique life growing up in Toronto, New York, and Paris. She now lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and is a mother to 4 kids ages 7, 9, 20, and 22. We chat about our own struggles trying to let go of that image of who we “had” to be and what we found was our true, authentic self. And the whole bumpy journey that was in between. Resources We Shared:Cozi Family Organizer App Free Family Organizer appRyan Haddon Join our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many of us have good memories of our parents and growing up, but then...there are the not-so good things. Maybe it’s the “My house my rules!” statement that you heard from your parents over and over again, or maybe it’s how your parents never had any consistency with their rules growing up. No matter what experience we had, one thing is for certain- our parents influence how we parent. For good and for bad. In this episode, we're joined by Betsy Stover as we laugh so hard that we cry as we ask that question…Do I parent like my mom did? Betsy Stover is the host of the podcast “Why Mommy Drinks”. She’s a comedian and a mom that helps other parents feel less alone, by showing them that all of us are a hot mess and reminding them that they are doing a great job. So listen along, laugh with us and see what realizations you have, like, do you echo-locate in your parenting too? Resources We Shared:   Why Mommy Drinks PodcastJoin our newsletter! Get connected to No Guilt Mom and get our Stop Doing Checklist absolutely FREE, so you can start taking tasks off your plate today!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Visit No Guilt MomRate & Review the No Guilt Mom Podcast on Apple here. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the podcast! Listen on Spotify? You can rate us there too!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here!Cozi Family Organizer App Free Family Organizer app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices