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

Let’s just face it. Moms are so busy doing so much for everyone, we really don’t have time for anything. Some would even say that we don’t even have time to have kids! 🤷‍♀️  In this episode, we chat about this with Zibby Owens, an author and the creator and host of the award-winning podcast “Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books”. She’s been named “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” by New York magazine’s Vulture, & conducts warm, inquisitive conversations with authors, making her daily show a top literary podcast as selected by Oprah.com in 2019 and 2020. Zibby’s also the Co-Founder and CEO of Zibby Books, a publishing home for fiction and memoir. She’s also the CEO of Moms Don’t Have Time To, a media company with multiple podcasts, publications, communities, the Zibby Awards, and two anthologies, Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology, and her latest book: Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology. 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!Zibby Owens  Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless AnthologyJoin our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group!Follow us on Instagram HERE!Rate & 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

Everyone needs coping skills, especially in this day and age. Both us as parents and our kids. I mean, no one can be perfect and never have difficult emotions right? In this episode, we talk with Janine Halloran, LMHC, about everything we should and shouldn't do when learning and teaching coping skills. Janine’s the founder of Coping Skills for Kids, a therapist, and the author of several books, including the bestselling Coping Skills for Kids Workbook. She creates resources to help kids learn healthy and safe ways to manage stress, anxiety, and anger. Resources We Shared:Coping Skills for KidsCoping Skills for Kids Check out Janine’s website for everything you need to help get those coping skills in place for everyone in family.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!Rate & 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

The holidays are upon us and with them we have so many stressors, like...holidays parties, decorating, visiting family, festivities, gifts for your family & friends, cards, baking, gifts for teachers, the list can go on forever! But many of us are adding another stressor to ourselves as well:Making and MAINTAINING gift lists for our kids and partners! I know- can you believe it?! Before you dismiss us because you don’t think it’s an issue for you, answer us these questions...1. Do you get stressed out when you think of all the gift lists you’ll be responsible for this holiday season?2. Do you make or provide a list of gift ideas or requests for your kids to others?3. Do you tell different people what gifts they can get for your kids or partner?4. Do you go shopping to buy gifts for your kids from other people? I’m looking at you dad! Or brother/sister! If you answered YES to any of these questions then you need to pull up a chair and listen to this episode because we are talking directly to YOU! We will be freeing you from the guilt and the responsibility! 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!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

There are so many things that I wish I knew before becoming a mom. First of all, that it won’t look like I imagined, and that’s okay. That will have days where I will lose it, and that’s expected. That my kids won’t be perfect, listen all the time, and be the “model” kid, and that doesn’t mean that I failed as a parent. In this episode, we discuss the things that we wish we knew before becoming moms with our guest Robbin McManne. Robbin is a Certified Parent Coach, Speaker, Author of the book, The Yelling Cure, Host of the award-winning Podcast, Parenting our Future, and am a wife and mom to two teenage boys. Most importantly, she says she came from being an angry and overwhelmed mom to one who has built a strong connection with her boys - and it's the best feeling ever! Resources We Shared: Robbin McManne 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

It’s been a tough past 2 years with the pandemic. And a recent TODAY Parents image post shared a hard truth: If your kids are in 2nd grade or lower, they’ve never had a “normal” school year. That means that helping our kids strengthen their emotional resilience is more essential than ever!  In this episode, we’ve got 3 simple things that you can start today to help build strong skills in emotional resistance and you will see so much growth almost instantly with 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!Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast Facebook group! Ashton Kutcher Gets Heckled By Sports Fans for His Family’s Bathing Habits  HOW OFTEN DO CHILDREN NEED TO TAKE A BATH?  No Guilt Mom Podcast Ep 056: How to Raise a Thriver with Michele Borba  No Guilt Mom Podcast Ep 13: The Gift of Failure with Jessica Lahey  No Guilt Mom Podcast Ep102: You Don’t Need to be Supermom with Jen Riday, PhD  No Guilt Mom Podcast Ep 106: The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop The Meltdowns with Marcelle Waldman  Nike Run Club AppFollow 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

When it comes to parenting, so many of us want to raise “good kids”. Kids who will be kind to others, who can problem-solve, kids who truly understand and act out of compassion, and who understand inclusivity, justice, and equality. But there is often a space between raising “good kids” and raising pro-justice kids. That’s where the concept of Social Justice Parenting comes in. In this episode, we are talking with Dr. Traci Baxley, a professor, consultant, parenting coach, speaker, mother to five bi-racial children, creator of the Social Justice Parenting program and author of Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World. She’s been an educator for over 30 years with degrees in child development, elementary education, and curriculum and instruction. Dr. Baxley shares with us a very vulnerable conversation where we talk about how to address race with our kids, how to engage in Social Justice parenting, and what the ROCKS of Social Justice parenting are. 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!Dr. Traci Baxley, Social Justice Parenting  Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World The Shameless Mom Academy with Sara DeanJoin 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’ve all experienced drama, right? Maybe we see our kids arguing and we want to step in to solve it, but aren't quite sure how.  Or when we do step in and solve it, the fight continues and we find ourselves mediating the same disagreement OVER and OVER again. We can actually help make all of that stop! We share 5 simple steps to give your kids the knowledge they need (and confidence) to solve disagreements on their own. 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

Who doesn’t know the current statistic that 50% of all marriages end in divorce? Even if you haven’t experienced divorce yourself, odds are very high that you have someone close to you who is or has been through a divorce. But few people talk openly about the emotional toll they go through while contemplating divorce. In this episode, we welcome Erin Royer, the founder of Your Village an online resource for parents and host of the Parenting Beyond Discipline podcast. She gives parents tools to support their children to reach their individual potentials. Erin recently released her first book, "The Connected Parents Guide to Toddlerhood - Fixes for 7 Common struggles"!  We talk openly and honestly about the guilt that so many go through when trying to decide if it’s time to divorce, what the research says on the effects of parents staying in an unhappy relationship, and what parents can do to support their kids (and their own) mental health during and after divorce. 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! Erin Royer, Your Village- Online parenting classes for busy parents who want to raise happy and amazing kids.  Parenting Beyond Discipline #201: *Special Edition #2 Co-Parenting Through Divorce – Dealing with Parental Guilt Connected Parent's Guide to Toddlerhood: Easy to Implement Fixes for 7 Common Toddler ChallengesJoin 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!Cozi Family Organizer App- Cozi is the #1 organizing app for families. It keeps everyone's schedules and all your lists in one place! Try this Free Family Organizer app! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is another installment of our “Listener Questions” episodes where we ask our No Guilt Mom listeners to send us their parenting challenges for us to offer some help. In this episode, we talk about the hot topic of screentime. How do I get my kids to put down their phones or iPad without the fight? Well guys, good news! We have some answers for you!  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 #81 How to Handle Screen Time With Your KidsJoin 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

Have you ever thought of just leaving it all?  You know... quitting your highly successful job, packing up your entire family in your car, taking only want fits in said car, and moving to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico? Does this sound like the plot to some amazing book? Well, it’s the short version of the Award-winning author of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, Elle Cosimano’s life. She’s a homeschooling mother of two teens, and author of mysteries and thrillers for adults and young adults.  Elle shares with us how she left her highly successful career where she felt like something big was missing. So she took a sabbatical and found her happiness in Mexico and writing her first book. In that experience, she learned all about what was truly important to her and her family, how to appreciate a simpler way of life, and most importantly to teach her kids how to fail forward! Resource 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!The Shameless Mom Academy Podcast Elle Cosmino Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Mystery Order Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead 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