Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein Nature has often been called the ultimate teacher on how to flow with life rather than against it, but as humans we sometimes forget. In this short guided meditation I help you relax, restore and realize your innate connection to everything in the universe. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas is a researcher, speaker and veterans' health advocate, she's also my sister. In this episode we discuss her personal cancer story, how her life and legacy has changed since her diagnosis, and the greater problem of aggressive cancers among veterans, thought to be linked with exposure to toxic burn pits while stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Want to help? Check out http://burnpits360.org Instagram @thedrkate Website https://dockate.com  Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed Resources: The Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act would cover a wide range of cancers and respiratory illnesses as presumptive conditions, including: asthma, that was diagnosed after service, head cancer of any type, neck cancer of any type, respiratory cancer of any type, gastrointestinal cancer of any type, reproductive cancer of any type, lymphoma cancer of any type, lymphoma cancer of any type, kidney cancer, brain cancer, melanoma, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, constrictive bronchiolitis or obliterative bronchiolitis, emphysema, granulomatous disease, interstitial lung disease, pleuritis, pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis. The Supporting Expanded Review for Veterans in Combat Environments (SERVICE) Act would require the VA to conduct mammograms for all women who served in areas associated with burn pits and other toxic exposures regardless of age, symptoms or family history. In 2019, Congress passed a law entitled “Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act.” This law was a long overdue mechanism to recognize Agent Orange exposure (and its related long-term health problems) in veterans who were on naval ships rather than on land during the time period of use of this herbicide on areas of Southeast Asian during the Vietnam war.  

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% "Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind." - Zen Proverb In this short guided meditation I help you relax, connect with who you really are, and sink into a state of deep relaxation and calm. It's from this vibration that you can become the master rather than the slave of your own mind. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% It's a new year, and the perfect time to make your self-care the priority in your life. In this episode I share my top 3 tips for managing stress and making self-care a non-negotiable part of your daily routine. There's no time like now to focus on your well-being and consequently improve your life and that of your family. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Best Self Atlanta Article  Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it." In this short guided meditation I help you relax, release stress and sink into a state of deep relaxation and calm. It's from this vibration that you can better visualize what you truly want to manifest for yourself in this next year. Thank you for doing the work. Sponsored by: Sambucol - Use code Mother15 to save 15% Lugz - Use code UNSTRESSED to save 30% at https://www.lugz.com Kindred Bravely - Use code UNSTRESSED20 at https://www.kindredbravely.com Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save Want more? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Dave Asprey Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Connect with Motherhood Unstressed: Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Follow us on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison following a wrongful conviction for the murder of her roommate: a sentence that was ultimately overturned by the Italian Supreme Court. She is now a mother, author, journalist, and co-host of the "Labyrinths" podcast alongside her husband Christopher Robinson. In this episode we talk about her journey to freedom, how motherhood has influenced her mindset, healing and growth after trauma, and what's next for her.  QUOTES "I thought I had that unknowing behind me, and instead, motherhood has shown me there's a lot of unknown in front of me" "Since I've had a daughter, I feel much more of a compulsion to set my daughter up in a better life than I've had...I want to defend her in ways I couldn't defend myself" "I became this blank slate onto which people could project all of their anger and hatred towards sexually active young women" RESOURCES: Twitter @AmandaKnox Instagram @amamaknox Web: https://www.knoxrobinson.com  Labyrinths Podcast Labyrinth's Patreon  The Innocence Project Three Strikes Law Here's How You Can Support the Show: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" Got a comment, idea or question for the podcast? Submit via this form. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Follow on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!: Let's Get Checked  Goli Gummies- code Unstressed to save Viome - code Unstressed to save Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save  WANT MORE? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Kate Baer Seth Godin Phil Rosenthal  Martha Beck Heart Mind Coherence Meditation 

Named in 2018 by Oprah Magazine as the Godmother of the full figured industry, super model Emme is globally recognized as an innovative social reformer for women’s empowerment and positive body image. In this episode we discuss her passion for body inclusion in the fashion industry, how self-confidence changes your reality, the impact of social media and perfectionism on self-esteem, and what practice has helped her the most with aligning with her true purpose.  QUOTES "Real change, real grappling with lions and tigers and bears, is when nothing is going right"   "Athletics was the one thing that kept telling me that my body was good...find something that you're good at"   "If we find confidence, and we get ourselves out of the ashes, well then you can do it over and over and over" RESOURCES: Web: www.emmestyle.com Email: emme@emmestyle.com Follow Emme on Facebook and Instagram   Fashion Without Limits (FWL)                 Here's How You Can Support the Show: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love"  Got a comment, idea or question for the podcast? Submit via this form.  Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Follow on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Let's Get Checked  Goli Gummies- code Unstressed to save Viome - code Unstressed to save Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save  WANT MORE? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Heart Mind Coherence Meditation 

Wade Lightheart is a 3-time Canadian bodybuilding champion, nutritionist and expert on fixing digestion. He’s the co-founder and president at BiOptimizers, a digestive and health optimization company and also serves as an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute. In this episode we discuss the fundamentals to achieving lifelong health and keys ways mothers in particular can prioritize their self-care practice. QUOTES   "Technology has become the major obstacle to our general health...efficiency of energy expenditure makes us lazy and so we have to overcome those things"   "If you have a great attitude, you can achieve almost anything, if you have a poor attitude it's very hard to get anywhere"   "You're worth the effort, and no one determines your worth except for you" RESOURCES: Web: https://bioptimizers.com Podcast: Awesome Health Podcast Follow Wade Lightheart on Facebook and Instagram                     The Awesome Health Course (free 12 week program)  Here's How You Can Support the Show: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love"  Got a comment, idea or question for the podcast? Submit via this form.  Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Follow on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed SPONSORED BY: Let's Get Checked  Goli Gummies- code Unstressed to save Viome - code Unstressed to save Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save  WANT MORE? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Heart Mind Coherence Meditation 

Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. As CEO of Viome he is working to make illness optional by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze an individual's gut biology, gain insight into their health, and offer personalized food and supplement recommendations according to the test results. In this wide ranging conversation we discuss parenting, legacy and how AI is primed to drastically alter the future of health care as we know it.  Some of the topics we discuss: key ways to parent your children into successful adults  how to leave a lasting legacy and create a life of abundance through scalable good intentions  the important difference between DNA and gene expression in diagnosing and treating illnesses the future of early diagnosis and treatment of diseases like IBD, IBS, and throat, oral and colorectal cancers through biological testing and artificial intelligence (AI) analysis  QUOTES "Every time I start a company, I ask myself three questions: why this, why now, why me?" "In order to be ten times better, you have to challenge the foundation of everything the experts have taken for granted"  "Making money is a byproduct of making people's lives better...and the questions you ask are the problems you solve" "The microbiome plays the most important role in the onset of the cancer, progression of the cancer, and even the therapies for the cancer, whether it's going to work or not work, depends on what's happening with your microbes" RESOURCES: Viome microbiome and metabolic testing- Save $10 with code unstressed  Follow Naveen on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Naveen Jain – Moonshots (book) Los Alamos National Lab Evvy Podcast with Priyanka Jain Bilt Mastercard  Here's How You Can Support the Show: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love"  Got a comment, idea or question for the podcast? Submit via this form.  Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Follow on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed SPONSORED BY: Let's Get Checked - Use code FRIDAY40 to save 40% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save WANT MORE? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Heart Mind Coherence Meditation   

In this episode of Motherhood Unstressed I am speaking with author and filmmaker Sasha Sagan about her new book "FOR SMALL CREATURES SUCH AS WE" which was inspired by her viral essay for The Cut, “Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan”. Sagan is the daughter of late astronomer/author Carl Sagan and writer/producer Ann Druyan. Some of the topics we discuss: How becoming a mother prompted Sagan to tap into her secular upbringing in the hopes of finding a non-religious worldview to pass on to her child The power of secular rituals to process and understand the passage of time What it was like growing up as the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Nurturing a childlike sense of wonder as an adult for greater perspective and happiness  QUOTES "Those questions, our place in the universe, reckoning with our own mortality, those deep philosophical questions about existence, there's just nothing that's more interesting to talk about, to wrestle with" "So much of the book is a love letter to my parents... they both were comfortable with asking a question to which we do not know the answer and looking for evidence"  "Everything we consider traditional is new on the scale of human history...so I think there's a way to carve out the parts that are meaningful to us without feeling so beholden that we're in a position to go through the motions about things we don't really connect to"  RESOURCES: Get the Book: "For Small Creatures Such As We" IG: @sashasagan Website: https://www.sashasagan.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/SashaSagan CONNECT: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you love the Motherhood Unstressed Podcast?) Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love"  Got a comment, idea or question for the podcast? Submit via this form.  Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Follow on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed SPONSORED BY: Kindred Bravely - Use code UNSTRESSED20 at https://www.kindredbravely.com Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save WANT MORE? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Heart Mind Coherence Meditation  About the Author: Sasha Sagan has worked as a TV producer, filmmaker (she co-wrote and produced a film with best friend Kirsten Dunst, which was screened at Tribeca and closed Cannes in 2010), editor, writer, and speaker in New York, Boston, and London. Her essays and interviews on death, history, and ritual through a secular lens have appeared in New York Magazine, O Magazine, Lit Hub, Mashable, The Violet Book, and elsewhere. She regularly speaks on ways science can inform our celebrations and how we mark the passage of time. FOR SMALL CREATURES SUCH AS WE is a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world—a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together. PRAISE FOR FOR SMALL CREATURES SUCH AS WE: “Read her work; you’ll have a deeper appreciation for your every step, every bite, and every breath.” —Bill Nye, The Science Guy “This lyrical exploration of how we can find beauty in the natural world comes from the daughter of Carl Sagan, so it's no wonder Sasha's reverence for the cosmos shines through on every page. It's part memoir, part history, part reflection, and all a wonderful gift for your favorite reader.” —Good Housekeeping “Wonderful. . . An elixir for people facing personal crises in a secular world.” —Wall Street Journal “A look at life, the cosmos, and finding magic in our daily lives.” —New York Post “Like her parents, Sasha has the passion, brilliance, and ability to spark curiosity, skepticism, and hope, through the written word. Open mind required. No faith necessary.” —Boing Boing “[Sagan's] view is wide in scope and she draws connections between many fields of science, history, and pop culture. She's not afraid to speculate about the future, including the future of humanity. Her poetic, engaging prose will resonate with many readers, as will her refreshingly breeze and open-minded approach. While some writers today dwell on threats to humanity as if an apocalypse is already upon us and all our children will live horrible lives, Sagan suggests that, regardless of what's to come, we should make the most of the little moments we have on our little corner of the pale blue dot.” —Undark Magazine “A gorgeous collection of essays. . . Birth, anniversaries, fasting, atonement: She approaches these subjects with wonderment and a generous window into her extraordinary family history. . . Sagan writes with stunning clarity and absolute joy. . . For Small Creatures Such As We is a marvel. It dazzles and comforts while making us consider our own place in the vast universe.” —BookPage “From birthdays to funerals to the changing of the seasons to lunar cycles, [Sagan] thoughtfully explores how to blend science and spirituality. An eye-opening book for those who might question traditional religious celebrations but feel connected to the community, rituals, and comforts they provide, this is a refreshing, intelligent examination of faith, religion, and the many wonders of science worthy of celebration.” —Booklist, starred review “In Sagan's astonishingly beautiful and wiser-beyond-one's-years debut, her lineage bursts forth on each page like a literary and scientific big bang. . . [Sagan writes] 'We can be sure that our ancestors, all of our ancestors, contemplated Earth's place in the universe with awe.' For Small Creatures Such As We very much deserves to be read in the same way. . . A wondrous journey exploring how rituals and celebration connect to life's greater meaning.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers  “Welcoming and tender. . . Charming and appealing, this thoughtful work serves as an uplifting, life-honoring celebration of human existence.” —Publishers Weekly