Motherhood Unstressed

My sons Nash and DC join us today in this short guided meditation perfect for kids and adults alike! This relaxing and simple guided breath and body awareness meditation will leave you (and your kids) feeling calm, focused and centered for the day. My new book "Motherhood Unstressed: Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" is now available on Amazon, Kindle or at motherhoodunstressed.com! Sponsored by Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Better sleep is just a click away. Use code Podcast to save. Be sure to rate this podcast, subscribe and connect with us on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed for more content like this.

Michelle Icard is a member of the Today show parenting team and NBC News Learn. In this episode we discuss her new book, "Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School". Michelle shares key ways you can help your child through the emotional, physical, and social challenges of tweendom, and how to communicate in a way that builds trust and emotional stability in the relationship. Connect with Michelle at https://michelleicard.com,on Facebook @LessStressedMiddleSchoolParents and IG @michelleicard  Take the Interactive Course GET THE BOOK Sponsored by: Hiya Children's Vitamins - Essential Super Nutrients for Kids. Use code Unstressed to save 50% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Stressed and in the US? Use code Podcast to save 20% ABOUT THE BOOK: The 14 essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead, including scripts and advice to keep the communication going and stay connected during this critical developmental window.  Trying to convince a middle schooler to listen to you can be exasperating. Indeed, it can feel like the best option is not to talk! But keeping kids safe—and prepared for all the times when you can't be the angel on their shoulder—is about having the right conversations at the right time. From a brain growth and emotional readiness perspective, there is no better time for this than their tween years, right up to when they enter high school. Distilling Michelle Icard's decades of experience working with families, FOURTEEN TALKS BY AGE FOURTEEN focuses on big, thorny topics such as friendship, sexuality, impulsivity, and technology, as well as unexpected conversations about creativity, hygiene, money, privilege, and contributing to the family. Icard outlines a simple, memorable, and family-tested formula for the best approach to these essential talks, the BRIEF Model: Begin peacefully, Relate to your child, Interview to collect information, Echo what you're hearing, and give Feedback. With wit and compassion, she also helps you get over the most common hurdles in talking to tweens, including: What phrases invite connection and which irritate kids or scare them off The best places, times, and situations in which to initiate talks How to keep kids interested, open, and engaged in conversation How to exit these chats in a way that keeps kids wanting more Like a Rosetta Stone for your tween's confounding language, FOURTEEN TALKS BY AGE FOURTEEN is an essential communication guide to helping your child through the emotional, physical, and social challenges ahead and, ultimately, toward teenage success. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The author of Middle School Makeover, her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Time, and People. Her leadership curriculum for middle schoolers, Athena's Path and Hero's Pursuit, have been implemented at schools across the U.S., and her summer camp curriculum is offered at more than 20 camps each summer. She lives with her family in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Train your brain for better emotional regulation and control in every day life. My new book "Motherhood Unstressed: Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" is now available on Amazon, Kindle or at motherhoodunstressed.com! Sponsored by Motherhood Unstressed CBD- Better sleep is just a click away. Use code Podcast to save. Be sure to rate this podcast, subscribe and connect with us on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed for more content like this.

Zoi Brees is a fitness and nutrition coach specializing in helping women, especially those in middle age, to put themselves first and make their health and vitality a priority. In this episode we discuss key ways you can make "The Shift" towards greater health and happiness starting today.  Connect with Zoi on IG @zoibrees and at https://zoibrees.com Join her 45 Day Challenge  Get my new book "Motherhood Unstressed: Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" on Amazon, Kindle or at motherhoodunstressed.com! Sponsored by Motherhood Unstressed CBD- Better sleep is just a click away. Use code Podcast to save. Be sure to rate this podcast, subscribe and connect with us on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed for more content like this.

Motherhood Unstressed: Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love is now available on Amazon, Kindle or at motherhoodunstressed.com! Sink in to your body, connect to who you really are, and feel free- all in less than 10 minutes.  Sponsored by Motherhood Unstressed CBD- Better sleep is just a click away. Use code Podcast to save. Be sure to rate this podcast, subscribe and connect with us on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed for more soul-nurturing content like this.

The damaging environmental toll of diapers on our planet and our children is truly incredible, yet little has been done to address this issue. Listen in to learn from Taylor Shearer the damaging secrets that traditional diaper companies don't want you to know and how start-up company Dyper is revolutionizing the diaper world.   Visit Dyper.com to learn more. Connect with Dyper on IG @get.dyper and Taylor Shearer @Tay_Shearer   Sponsored by: Hiya Children's Vitamins - Essential Super Nutrients for Kids. Use code Unstressed to save 50% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Stressed and in the US? Use code Podcast to save 20%

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Sponsored by: Public Goods - Use code Unstressed for $15 off your order. Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Stress Less. Use code podcast to save 15% at www.motherhoodunstressed.com  In this week's episode of the Motherhood Unstressed podcast we dive into this question of, "would life be better without alcohol?" Author, podcast host, and founder of Numinous Books, Ruby Warrington joins us today to discuss her latest book, "The Sober Curious Reset", and the benefits of an alcohol-free lifestyle. Connect with me on IG @motherhoodunstressed  "Alcohol is the 3rd leading cause of preventable death in the United States after obesity and cigarette smoking" "The big question is, would my life be better without alcohol?" "We live in an alcohol-centric society, if anything it's abnormal not to drink" "Until recently we haven't had much language to talk about mental and emotional wellbeing...until then what do you do if you are depressed or have anxiety? Why would we not reach for this substance anytime we don't like the way that we feel?"  -Ruby Warrington Resources IG @rubywarrington Sober Curious Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/sobercuriousbook/ Website http://www.rubywarrington.com Buy The Sober Curious Reset: https://amzn.to/3eDwuxR Alcohol Change UK https://alcoholchange.org.uk Sapiens Beverage Non-Alcoholic Wine https://www.sapiensbeverage.com ABOUT RUBY Author of Material Girl, Mystical World (2017), Sober Curious (Jan 2019), and The Numinous Astro Deck (June 2019). Voice behind the term “Now Age.” Founder of The Numinous. With 20 years’ experience as a lifestyle journalist, she is an author, speaker, book doula, curator, brand consultant, copywriter, and thought leader. Her mission is to inspire people to see the world through a new lens—inviting them to engage with life on a deeper, more meaningful level.

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Sponsored by: Hiya Children's Vitamins - Essential Super Nutrients for Kids. Use code Unstressed to save 50% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Stressed and in the US? Use code Podcast to save 20% Life irrevocably changed when Miguel Sancho and Felicia Morton discovered that their son, Sebastian, had chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a disease which increases the body’s susceptibility to infections caused by certain bacteria and fungi. In this episode learn how their personal crises taught them how to manage chaos through various modalities of self-help, including faith, therapy, and meditation, and how you can incorporate those hard-earned lessons of survival into your life. Their story reminds us that although life can be chaotic, with the right mindset and the right tools, we have the ability to persevere. Get the Book "More Than You Can Handle" Twitter @CGDAofAmerica and @masancho3 Facebook @CGDAofAmerica Instagram @CGDAofAmerica   www.cgdaa.org   Want to hear more? Check out some of our most popular past episodes and sure to leave a review on Apple Podcasts and subscribe! Best Selling Faith Writer Sarah Bessey ON: The Renewing Power of Praye‪r‬ Alexa and Carlos PenaVega on Why You Need to Put Your Marriage First Self-Love and Shadow Work with Artist and Author Tori Press "Bringing Up Bebe" Author Pamela Druckerman ON: New Book "Paris By Phone", France's Undeniable Influence on World Culture, and How You Too Can Live La Vie en Ros‪e‬ The Power of Now Meditation - Know Your Mind So You Can Change I‪t‬ Resources: Felicia Morton is the president and CEO of Morton PR, a full-service communications firm. Felicia has an extensive background in public relations, managing clients for Manning, Selvage & Lee and GolinHarris in Manhattan. Felicia has also worked as a journalist in the United States and Europe. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,The Providence Journal, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Star, and The Prague Post. Felicia has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College and a combined Master’s degree (Communications & MBA) from Boston University. Why advocacy? Felicia Morton has dedicated her career to bringing people and ideas together to raise awareness for primary immune deficiencies.  When her son, Sebastian, was diagnosed with Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)  in 2012, she found it difficult to find reliable information,  medical professionals, opportunities for patients to connect, especially while her son was in and out of the hospital with infections.  She was determined to use her skills to bring resources together and make it available to others in similar crisis. To that end, Felicia became: Founder and Executive Director of the CGD Association of America (CGDAA), a Sec.501c3 organization, whose mission is to advocate on behalf of patients, carriers, and families in the CGD community by providing clear, accurate, and independent news and information about CGD and advancing CGD research.  Was named as Patient Advocate Liaison for CGD for the Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium (PIDTC),  funded by the National Institutes of Health, which consists of 43 centers in North America whose shared goal is to improve the outcome of patients with rare, life threatening, inherited disorders of the immune system CGDAA listed below as a resource: https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/cms/pidtc/Get-Involved/Patient-Advocacy https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6100/chronic-granulomatous-disease Was named as CGD Patient Organization for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences - GARD Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center CGDAA listed below as a resource Listed with NORD, National Organization of Rare Disorders CGDAA affiliated organizations: Primary Immune Deficiency Consortium https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/cms/pidtc/ Contact: Dr. Jennifer Puck UCSF Dept of Pediatrics Allergy Immunology and, and Blood and Marrow Transplant  NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders) Contact: Debbie Drell, Allie Crafton, Ashanthi DeSilva https://rarediseases.org/organizations/the-cgd-association-of-america/ Remember the Girls Contact: Taylor Kane, Executive Director https://www.rememberthegirls.org/ Jeffrey Modell Foundation Contact: Fred & Vicki Modell http://www.info4pi.org/wjmf/breaking-news CGD Society, United Kingdom Contact: Claire Jeffries, Operations Manager https://cgdsociety.org/ Global Genes Felicia Morton Nominated as Global Genes Rare Champion of Hope in 2020: https://globalgenes.org/rare-champion-of-hope-award-nominees/ Immune Deficiency Foundation Contact: John Boyle, President & CEO  Affiliated via PIDTC and RDCRN https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/cms/pidtc/Get-Involved/Patient-Advocacy https://www.rarediseasesnetwork.org/pags Named to IDF’s PI Connect Governance Committee https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/immune-deficiency-foundation-welcomes-additional-patients-and-caregivers-to-pi-connect-governance-committee-300077065.html Why innovation for the patient population? In addition to providing a central clearinghouse of information for CGD patients, families and physicians, this work is innovative because the CGDAA will soon start an IRB approved Principal Investigator driven study using the database of carriers that Felicia created to study the symptoms and diseases experienced by X linked female CGD carriers.  It has only recently been discovered that X linked carriers, long thought to be asymptomatic, actually experience medical problems linked to their genetic status.  This research may lead to earlier diagnosis of treatable illness. How does candidate inspire others? Felicia inspires, educates and supports in diverse ways including: 1. Be The Match stem cell donor drives.   Stem cell transplant is a curative option for patients with CGD, however, many patients lack a suitable donor because of ethnic diversity.  Felicia's Finnish background mixed with her husband's Costa Rican background made finding a donor for her son difficult.  She organized others to run stem cell donor drives to sign people to the Be the Match Registry to increase the available pool of donors, including drives at the NIH and Georgetown University.  2. Presenter at Conferences Felicia has represented the CGD community by speaking at the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) conference.  She also spoke at the Rare Disease Awareness Day sponsored by Orchard Therapeutics.  3. E-newsletter and blog Felicia writes the CGDAA  e-blog and newsletter that is sent electronically to the community. 4. CDGAA Mentoring Network of Volunteers Felicia recruits, trains and mentors the volunteers who in turn mentor families. 5. Family support Perhaps, most importantly, Felicia is always directly available to speak with, and reassure, patients, parents, caregivers and carriers affected by the CGD mutation. She inspires and empowers families to take an active role in getting quality care for their family members. What challenges have they overcome? Starting a not-for-profit from scratch with no funding is a daunting challenge.  Felicia completed an arduous and extensive application to the Pro Bono Clearing House Organization in the hope of being chosen and matched with a law firm to help her set up a 501c3 organization.  Her application was deemed 'compelling' and in 2019 she successfully matched, and after many months, succeeded in achieving 501c3 status.  The next challenge was to bring together medical experts to join the team as advisors.  Harry Malech, MD, Chief, Genetic Immunotherapy Section, Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Health volunteered to lead the CGDAA Advisory Board and recruit other top CGD physician specialists in the US.   Other member of her board include: Kathleen Sullivan, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Jennifer Leiding, MD, Immunologist and Allergy Specialist, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Rebecca Marsh, MD, Clinical Director, Primary Immune Deficiency Program and Co-Director, Diagnostic Immunology Laboratories, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital  Mary Dinauer, MD, PhD, Fred M. Saigh Distinguished Chair of Pediatric Research, Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis Children’s Hospital  Fundraising is another challenge that is ongoing, however, two large pharmaceutical companies have already supported the new organization. Finally, and most personally, Felicia worked as a CGD advocate, which formed the building blocks of the CGDAA, while seeing her son through multiple hospitalizations for infections until he received a successful stem cell transplant done at a large institution in NC.  She is an X-linked carrier of CGD, the daughter herself of an X-linked mother, a wife and owner of her own PR firm.  Miguel Sancho is an Executive Producer currently showrunning and developing projects with Six West Productions. His upcoming project, The Proof Is Out There, premiered on the History Channel in January 2021. His other recent projects include the A&E unscripted series Jail Cam; the History Channel special Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution; and Lifetime’s Beyond the Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy. Prior to that he was executive producer on the documentary series The Untold Story hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, a strand of 2-hour specials airing in spring 2019. He worked as showrunner on some of these specials himself, overseeing staffing, budgets, shoots, scripts, and edits; on others he served as a senior supervising consultant. He performed a similar role on the A&E series Cults and Extreme Belief which aired in the summer of 2018. He also works as a consultant for development and scripting for Efran Films on various true crime series.  Prior to his work at A+E Networks, Miguel accumulated more than two decades of experience producing national television news broadcasts, most recently as senior producer for the ABC News program 20/20. He has conceived and managed the production of hundreds of primetime broadcasts, ranging from long-term documentary projects to live breaking news specials. Known as a prolific originator of ideas, a masterful script editor and a dexterous problem-solver, Miguel was responsible for many of the most high-profile projects in the program’s recent history, working extensively with top talent such as Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, David Muir, Dan Harris, Chris Cuomo, and John Stossel. With a background in investigative reporting, he oversaw many of the most legally sensitive projects the network aired during his tenure there. He and his teams have won many of the industry’s top journalism awards, including the Edward R. Murrow, the George Polk, the Sigma Delta Chi, the IRE Award. Most recently, he won a 2017 Emmy for an hour-long documentary special on the Las Vegas massacre, and the Black Patriots project is currently nominated for a 2020 Emmy.  He enjoys the teaching of television journalism as much as the practice of it, and has conducted numerous staff seminars on writing and shooting. He also served on the ABC News committee on Diversity, Growth, and Development. Prior to his time at ABC, Miguel spent eight years as producer at the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, where he developed his skills as cinematic storyteller in the long-form format. During his years in the field he’s covered stories all across the US and abroad, including Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East. He speaks Spanish and has basic knowledge of French, German, Russian, and Arabic.