Reclaim Motherhood The Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sarah Herstich & Eva Haldis
Reclaim Motherhood is an online community built to help anxious and isolated moms feel less alone in this journey, without all the diet and body talk that is so prevalent in online mom communities.
Another solo episode! Today Sarah talks a bit about her experience with early intervention services, many daycare struggles, what she wish she knew from the beginning and what she's learned about herself in the process.
We hope you enjoy this episode! Please share it with your mom friends, like and subscribe wherever you listen.
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Here are the resources Sarah shared in today's episode:
Books:
Parenting From the Inside Out
Beyond Behaviors
Brain Body Parenting
Instagram:
@allthingsensorypodcast
@speechsisters
Early Intervention in Pennsylvania:
https://www.education.pa.gov/Early%20Learning/Early%20Intervention/Pages/default.aspx
Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
https://www.pakeys.org/getting-started/ocdel-programs/
As always, an important disclaimer: Our podcast is meant for educational purposes only and should not be considered as a replacement for therapy, nutritional or medical care.*
In our first SOLO episode, Eva dives in to discuss how to combat and reduce the mealtime stress and discusses the different ways us moms & parents can fall into spirals around feeding our kids.
She discusses more on the research and provides practical ideas on how to feed your kids so you can stress less, and help set your kids up to develop a healthy relationship to food! She also shares more about her experience so far feeding her toddler!
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As promised, here are some the links we mentioned in the episode:
Ellyn Satter Institute:
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/
Ellyn Satter Institute, Division of Responsibility:
https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/how-to-feed/the-division-of-responsibility-in-feeding/
Feeding Littles
http://feedinglittles.com/
https://www.instagram.com/feedinglittles/
In today's episode, Sarah and Eva talk about the daily motherhood tasks, feelings and things that trigger their anxiety. From messes, taking care of pets to sensory overload, they chat all about what tends to increase their anxiety and what helps them cope, as well as discussing how they are still learning to manage their own triggers.
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As promised, here are some the links we mentioned in the episode:
Article Eva mentioned from The Cut, "Epiphany in the Baby-Food Aisle On a trip to the grocery store one day, I had a realization about me, my son, and the meaning of life." by Jessi Klein
https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/excerpt-ill-show-myself-out-jessi-klein.html
It’s been a few weeks! In this episode we catch up on what’s been happening over the past month. From the mental load of motherhood, to sickness and major life transitions, we share our our most recent challenges in motherhood and how we’re moving through them.
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Today, Sarah & Eva dive into discussing mom guilt, partner guilt and all the different parts and pathways that come out of this common feeling amongst moms. They talk about their personal challenges with guilt, and how it shows up for them, as well as offer some compassionate support to help you navigate this emotion that so many of us feel!
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As promised, here are some the links & resources we mentioned in the episode:
Discussion on being the "Default Parent" by Renee Reina of The Mom Room Podcast
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZuOVMZg00s/
Disclaimer: Our podcast is meant for educational purposes only and should not be considered therapy, nutritional or medical care.
We are FINALLY talking about SLEEP and the impact that sleep deprivation has on motherhood!
In this episode, Sarah and Eva break down how sleep deprivation can be a risk factor and/or impact your experience with postpartum, including postpartum anxiety and depression. They also discuss their own experience with sleep deprivation and how it showed up with their postpartum anxiety, and what they wish new moms knew. This episode felt like a major vent sesh between two moms over how sleep became an all consuming part of their early motherhood journey.
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As promised, here are some the links & resources we mentioned in the episode:
Information on sleep deprivation for new parents:
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-deprivation/parents
Resources for help and finding a practitioner:
https://www.postpartum.net/
https://www.instagram.com/postpartumsupportinternational/
Disclaimer: Our podcast is meant for educational purposes only and should not be considered therapy, nutritional or medical care.
In today's episode, we recap our last 2 years of parenting in a pandemic, talk all about our personal experiences and how it has brought both immense challenges and blessings.
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode and would love if you could please share it with your mom friends, like and subscribe - and leave us comments on what you think!
Podcast inspired by the Freckled Foodie & Friends Podcast: Parenting in a Pandemic
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Today, we are talking about alllll things non-diet and anti-diet (and we talk about the difference!) and why this is so important to us, not only as providers, but most importantly, as moms.
Although we hope to bring you more topics around motherhood, we thought it was super important to discuss why at the core we will always be a space that is free from diet culture and that is a safe space for all bodies!
We hope you enjoy the episode, please share it with your mom friends, like and subscribe - and leave us comments on what you think!
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As promised, here are some the links we mentioned in the episode:
Christy Harrison’s definition of diet culture: https://christyharrison.com/blog/what-is-diet-culture
Diet culture quote by Nadia Craddock, quoted here: https://https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1067210075/what-if-the-best-diet-is-to-reject-diet-culture
Disclaimer: Our podcast is meant for educational purposes only and should not be considered therapy, nutritional or medical care.
In our FIRST episode ever, we (aka Sarah Herstich & Eva Haldis) sit down to talk about who we are, why we are here and what to expect from Reclaim Motherhood!
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