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Answering Listener Questions About Our Hearts, Bodies and Minds
Last week felt like the emotional equivalent of pulling on compression leggings while sweating. Is that not the worst? All it does is make you sweat more…it’s a vicious cycle. In the heart of a season full of transitions, I knew some time spent looking back on life with NOTM regular, Brooke, and answering questions based on past experiences would simply remind us that we’re able to handle more than we think. We invited you all to send in your questions and we categorized them with surprising ease because they all centered around a few things: body image/fitness, honeymoon nights/marriage, pregnancy/childbirth and personal growth. These are almost all transitional seasons,…
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Being a mom + pursuing your passions and make-up/skincare Do’s/don’ts
*If the motherhood side of life isn't your cup of tea just yet - go ahead and skip to around 33 minutes in for all of the make-up/skincare talk!* This is maybe one of my biggest areas of flat out no one told me and I blame my mother for this hole in my life. But she made up for it by plucking my eyebrows for me in high school. Life has a way of balancing out doesn’t it? But, what I can do is find people who know more about topics than I do and let them lead us in their ways. So, we find ourselves with my friend,…
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Online Dating, Healthy Boundaries and Setting Standards
Creating healthy boundaries with yourself - whether it’s while using an app, in relationships or in everyday life - is essential to knowing the value you carry. You’ll hear some pretty great insight from our friends, Rachel and Caitlin, who have been digging their way through the profiles online dating has to offer for a little while now and have learned a thing or two - or seven. How do you build a profile that hits right? What are the red flags to avoid in your own profile and in the profiles of others? When do you know it’s okay to meet? How do you stay safe? And, sprinkled throughout…
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Toxic Relationships and How to Shift Your Mindset
Today's guest is a semi-old friend (is seven years considered old? no? kind of?) who allowed me to walk through some seasons that leave you unsure about yourself and about what's next. Leah found herself in an unhealthy cycle of relationships, struggling against what she knew she should do and the ability to actually do it. We take a pretty hard look at some topics we Southerners struggle to voice. If you've ever struggled to figure out who you are outside of a relationship, to completely re-make your mindset or allowed someone else to put a value on you - this episode is for you.
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Did Anyone Tell You: What To Watch, Listen To and How This “Summer” Has Changed Us All
We’re starting with this surprise episode - a summer recap Did Anyone Tell You, which is just an installment we do every now and then to equip you with information that only proves useful to fill in the uncomfortable silences of a Zoom call or prove to those younger than you that you are still cool even though you’ve really gotten into the art of crochet lately. Okay, that’s me. I’m talking about me. Two of my favorite people, Kaley and Khari, are here to talk about what’s worth watching on one of your 40 streaming platforms, Taylor Swift’s absurd abilities to turn out an album in secret and, my…
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…I’m Not The One Who Has To Fight
The last episode of season two developed about six months ago when I was laying in the middle of the living room floor crying while my kids napped. What I thought would happen...didn’t. What I wanted to happen...didn’t. And I wasn’t sure what forward looked like. My battle to get to the other side was just beginning. You will face a season you didn’t see coming, a time you want to just skip past - what will you do? What did you do? Let’s talk about it.
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…About Moms And Loss
This episode is a story. A story of a lot of pain, loss, uncertainty. And I think it will speak most to what no one tells us about loss as a mom. My friend Melanie speaks with such painful honesty - I know many will relate. So, if you know someone who maybe wants to avoid Mother’s Day, or someone who has felt the loss that is a miscarriage or infertility - share this with them. Let this be how they know they're seen. Here's No One Told Me About Moms and Loss.
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…I Can Say I’m Not Okay
A conversation about mental health while Staying At Home: What do you do when the world is swaying? There's no shame or guilt in admitting something's wrong. The way you feel right now will not be forever. Take this time to ask: What was I doing because I thought I had to but I really don't? ...And a whole lot more!
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NOTM: Check In
Some of us are just a few weeks in and some are months into this at-home season. We though it was time for a check in. Many of you shared how you're doing and what your life looks like. And then myself and Brooke just go right into quarantine grocery staples, what's normal now and really, how much damage are we going to do to our kids in this season?
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…An Interview With Phylicia Masonheimer
Instead of releasing an episode specific to right now, the chaos of work life led me to pull from the reserves. And what I came out with was an interview with Phylicia Masonheimer. Even though it was recorded at the end of February, it’s almost eerie how relevant it is right now. So much of what we talked about matters even more now. Here’s my conversation with Phylicia Masonheimer.