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

Do you get a little squeamish about the idea of sitting down with your kids to talk about the “birds and the bees”? Or do you have questions on how to do it? Well, we have brought in the BIG GUNS with today’s guest!In this episode, we are excited to welcome 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. Brittany has an 8 and a 5 year old. 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!Sex Education at Advocates for Youth  Brittany McBride Amaze videos  Sex education 2.0: Inside the movement to make sex education inclusive from GMA C is for Consent We are Supported By… (Armchair Expert)  Download the Transcripts HEREFollow 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 need you to know one cold, hard truth. Regardless of everything else happening in your life, your kids are NOT justified in treating you poorly. And the same goes for you. As kids, many of us were taught a generation ago to simply listen to and follow adults.Because I said so! No questions asked.Have you ever stopped and wondered where so many of us got the idea that we need to make our kids feel worse in order to get better behavior from them? Hmmm. So in this episode, we give you 7 simple ways to get RESPECT in your home! Yes! 7 simple ways- it's really that easy!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!Cara Harvey Purpose Driven Mom Show Podcast Download the Transcripts HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve all had those times where we dreaded going to that “parent meeting” or to that friend’s party, where we only know our 1 friend. It’s so intimidating to walk into a room where you know pretty much no one. Cue the sweaty palms and stomach ache. Our guest today has the absolute best way to handle those awkward settings and advice on how to stay authentic in your friendships- share a (kinda) embarrassing story! You’ll laugh, they’ll laugh and suddenly everything will seem so much easier! In this episode, we chat with Joanne Jarrett, a family physician on her 17th year of maternity leave, host of the Fancy Free Podcast, and creator of Shelfies, a line of cozy women's loungewear. She has 2 daughters, ages 15 & 17 and she loves to help women feel less alone in their imperfections and forge connections through vulnerability and humor. 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!Fancy Free Podcast Shelfie Shop Loungewear Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)  Adam Ruins Everything: Adam ruins dating (Myers-Briggs origins)  Factually! with Adam Conover Download the Transcripts HEREFollow us on Instagram HERE!Check out our favorite deals from our fabulous sponsors here! 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 that somewhat taboo subject of sex! How do you answer your kids questions about where they came from? How does a baby come out of a mom’s tummy? What does it mean when people “love” one another? What is sex? ...And more!  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!Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond — and how Parents Can Help TRAX podcasts for 9–13-year-olds  Healthy Children.org- Talking to Your Child About Sex  The Talk: When’s The Right Time to Talk To Kids About Sex? Download the transcript HEREFollow 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

Hey guys! Our 100th episode is coming up and we wanted to do something BIG!   So we want you to come and join us LIVE as we record our 100th No Guilt Mom podcast episode!  There will be fun, games, giveaways, and most importantly- fun! (Did I mention that already?)   Register to join us LIVE on Friday, July 23rd at 10 AM PST/ 1 PM EST here: https://www.noguiltmom.com/100   Hurry though as space will be limited! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we talk with Einat Nathan, a parenting expert, counselor, and author from Israel. Her first book Haimsheli, was a bestseller across all categories in Israel, making her a national celebrity. The book resonated because mothers read it, cried and smiled, and discovered a way to look at their children as independent people, not solely as an extension of who they are or as a calling card. Einat helps parents with a fresh approach to parenting and is the parent to 5 teenagers. Her book My Everything, was recently translated into English.  We discuss the difference in parenting expectations in the US versus Israel, how the way our parents raised us affected our thoughts on parenting and what pressures we face as parents in this digital age. 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!Me & My Friendships My Everything: The Parent I Want to Be, The Children I Hope to Raise  Leave Us a Podcast Review (How to Video) Download the Transcripts HEREFollow 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

When it comes to dealing with discipline, the kids fighting with you and each other, and getting your kids to help out at home…. you pretty much only have three choices for every situation. And sadly, we sing songs to help you remember each of these parenting techniques.  So no, it isn’t your cat in a grinder, but JoAnn and Brie sharing their “artistic side”, as we share the 3 ways that pretty much every parent handles discipline, give you the pros and cons to each along with which one will most likely give you the results that you have been searching for! Resources We Shared:Join our No Guilt Mom Podcast group!  Leave Us a Podcast Review (How to Video) Download the Transcripts HERECheck out our favorite deals from our sponsors here!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When we over-parent and rescue all the time, we're depriving our kids from living. Life is truly an active verb. And when we focus on making things easier in the short term, we deprive our kids of the skills they need for the long haul. In this episode we speak with Julie Lythcott-Haims who is the New York Times bestselling author of the anti-helicopter parenting manifesto How to Raise an Adult, Real American, and her newest book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult. Julie believes in humans and is deeply interested in what gets in our way. She shares with us how parents can sometimes get focused on the short term gains and lose sight of those long haul parenting goals. And in the end, it’s our kids who pay the price. We some of our best “Oh crap! I’m an adult now” moments and how we found strength in them, just as our kids will!Resources We Shared: Me & My Friendships Book  Julie Lythcott-Haims How to Raise an Adult Real American: A Memoir Your Turn: How to Be an Adult  Leave Us a Podcast Review (How to Video) Download the Transcripts HERECheck out our favorite deals from our sponsors here!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why do so many of us moms feel guilty asking for help? You know, like it’s a burden to ask someone for help or something that we need (love, support, so on)? Defining yourself as someone who can “do-it-all” only sets you up for failure and guilt. Why? Because if you can’t “do-it-all-by-yourself” then somehow you are “less than”. And we’re here to tell you that is so not true! In this episode, we share 4 ways to work past that guilt and learn to ask for what you actually want- guilt free! Because like we always say- the best mom is a happy mom! Resources We Shared:Me & My Friendships Book Bonus  GoodTherapy- Overcoming Guilt Desert Paddleboards  Podcast Episode 082 The Life Skills Your Kids Need Before Launch with Amy Carney Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)  Head in the CLouds (Feel Your Feelings Fool) I Go Through (O.A.R.) Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself  Leave Us a Podcast Review (How to Video) Download the Transcripts HERECheck out our favorite deals from our sponsors here! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What if we told you that we can live better, happier, and simpler lives by making a few adjustments to how we think about self-care? Would you try it? In this episode, we are talking with Dr.Christine Koh. She’s a music and brain scientist turned multimedia creative! She spent a decade in academia, during which time she was awarded prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen’s University and joint-appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. Christine was about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures. We discuss what so many of us view “protective self-care” as and what it really needs to be to actually benefit us in the long run. Christine also shares with us her breakdown of Self-Care into two distinct parts: Protective Care and Restorative Care. And how they relate to boundaries, toxic relationships, taking a “pause”, and really overall -how we care for ourselves. Resources we shared:Me & My Friendships Pre-Order Bonus Christine Koh Edit Your Life Podcast Hello Relationships Podcast  Protective Care vs. Restorative Care CNN Friendships Piece  The Washington Post- Why the parental pandemic wall feels so bad right now, and what you can do about it  Podcast Episode 026 How to Help Your Tween Navigate Relationships with Phyllis Fagell  CNN- How parents can support kids through (and beyond) the latest wave of anti-Asian American violence Jessica Turner- The Mom Creative Lydia Denworth  Leave Us a Podcast Review (How to Video) Download the Transcripts HERECheck out our favorite deals from our sponsors here!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices