Don’t Be a Momster: Recent Episodes
Meaghan Johnson
This podcast is dedicated to all the moms out there that are struggling with balancing the duties of parenthood and demands of life. If you criticize, judge or belittle yourself, this podcast will offer you the tools needed to create wellbeing in your life. Learn about why you think and feel the way you do and most important, how to create nicer, friendlier thoughts, so you can show up as your best self for yourself and your family. My purpose is to help mothers change the relationship they have with their minds.
Parents often make the comment that their kids will be fine because children are resilient. This could not be further than the truth. Children are not resilient. Their brains are being molded and constructed by everything we say and do. They may not be aware of the changes happening but they are happening. In this episode, you are going to learn how to become more conscious and aware on how your children are being impacted by the things you say and do and what you can do to ensure that your children have the right tools needed so they will grow up to be peaceful and joyous adults.
Motherhood is not for the birds. Children will stretch you physically, mentally and emotionally. If you haven’t trained to do a marathon and you sign up for one. Your” are not going to make it. You are going to run out of steam or even injure yourself. This episode is about training the mind, to prepare it for mothering. It’s for the moms who don’t want to be exhausted everyday. There is a way out. I’m going to show you how to no longer be burned out. Let’s go!!
Everyone is in pursuit of happiness. It is ingrained in your culture. We are falsely taught that our happiness it out there. We will be happy when we get this amount of money, lose this amount of weight or get this dream job. I grew up believing that I will be happy when I find my partner in life. When I get married. I expected my husband to make me happy and when I wasn’t, I blamed him. In this episode, you are going to learn what happened when I discovered my happiness is not attached to my husband. I also give advice on how you can create happiness in your own life.
Every mom wants a close relationship with their child. The greatest way to do this is to create a safe environment where they can freely open up to you. In this podcast, I am going to give parenting tips on 10 ways to strengthen the bond you have with your children. As most mothers know, being a parent is so much more than just taking care of their physical needs. Their mental health and welling is just as important and a necessity to ensure they grow up to be confident, well rounded human beings. This episode gives strategies on how to ensure that your children always come to you for anything, no matter how big or small the problem.
In this episode, you are going to hear from a rockstar mom and pioneer business woman. Leigh Butler has launched this amazing app called Akina Moms. It was created specifically for African American moms. It is a safe environment where we can meet, discuss and ask questions about issues that we deal with. She is a wife, mom of 3 and entrepreneur. There is much to be learned from this brilliant woman! Enjoy.
The mind needs instructions on how to operate. Unfortunately, people believe the way they think and feel is just the way it is. They have no control or say over their minds. This is not true. Your thoughts and emotions are what they are because of a past experience. That’s it. In this episode, you are going to learn why your mind has the thoughts it has and why the mind has the emotions it has. Once you understand how the mind operates, you are free to direct it as you please.
I had the honor of interviewing my beautiful friend, Marcell Williams. Marcell is an amazing example that you can find love, be a mom (of 5) and still find time to run a business. She offers moms a range of needed advice from how to step out of the dark when you are feeling down to keeping your marriage fun and new to how to build a business. She has been thru the unspeakable and has still managed to create a beautiful life for herself. You will learn so much from her, I promise! This is not podcast you want to miss!
This is a subject that most do not want to talk about. There is a lot of shame attached to mental illness, which is why I am so open to telling people about my experience with depression. If you are experiencing difficulty, you are not alone. In this episode, I give some of the red flags that I experienced when I was depressed. I also offer strategies that I used to create a beautiful, loving state of mind. Depression is something you experience, it is not who you are. You can live a life full of joy.
In this episode, I give you tools on how to create a kinder mind. Your mind is like a computer, it follows instructions. If it’s instructed to protect, you will experience mean thoughts and painful emotions. If it’s instructed that it’s safe, you will have loving thoughts and nice emotions. I give you personal examples on how I instruct my mind to be nicer. These tools are simple, effective and can be implemented right now. I also give advice on how to instill this information in your children so they too can create a pleasant mind.
Life is going to happen. Somethings we want and somethings we don’t want. We may not be able to control the things that happen to us or the statements that others make but at least we have it in our power to control how we respond to those things. We can choose to be joyous or miserable. It’s up to you. Which do you think will create a more pleasant life? In this episode, I show you how to choose joy every time and how to instill this practice into your children.
Although parenting can feel like a full time job, many of us moms still aspire for something even greater. You have your own personal goals, whether it’s start a new business, lose a certain amount of weight or put yourself out there in the dating scene again. The greatest barrier to accomplishing these goals is your fear. It can be crippling. Your fears keep you from taking that next step. Your mind is telling you that you are going to fail, don’t waste your time or money. In this podcast episode, I explain why you experience fear and most importantly, what you need to do to overcome it. You deserve to live your best life, for yourself and your children.
On any given day we have thousands of things we need to get done. It can be a exhausting and overwhelming. We hold such high expectations for ourselves and don’t realize how our standards are negatively impacting our lives. We just keep going without any self reflection. The next thing we know we are burned out and people we love most are negatively impacted. This doesn’t have to be your reality. In this episode, I’m going to tell you why you are experiencing mommy burn out and what you can do to get rid of it completely. It is time to put yourself first. It is time to create the life you want and deserve!