Mamaconnects Podcast

Dr. Stella Chess and her husband Dr. Alexander Thomas spearheaded the classic New York Longitudinal study in the early 1950s to track hundreds of children over a 30-year period to understand the tendencies that babies are born with and how they influence their lives, and from that research they developed the 9 Temperamental Traits.[i] The traits are: Activity Level: how active is your child most of the time? Distractibility: how easily do outside influences distract your child? Intensity: how much intensity does your child have in her responses? Regularity: does your child vary in her eating or sleeping patterns? Sensory Threshold: how sensitive is your child to physical sensations? Approach/Withdrawal: how does your child respond to strangers? Adaptability: how easily does your child adapt to changes in his day? Persistence: how long will your child work to solve something that is hard? Mood: is your child a glass half empty or half full kind of person? 5 Chess, Dr. Stella, and Dr. Alexander Thomas. TEMP

o   o   AIn this episode, I talk about Core Values as a strategy to build awareness about who you are and what are the deeply held beliefs that guide your life. Here are a list of Core Values that you can use as a starting point for selecting your 5-7 most powerful Core Value words.   Ability o   Acceptance o   Accessibility o   Accomplishment o   Accuracy o   Achievement o   Adventure o   Ambition o   Appreciation o   Assertive o   Authenticity o   Authority o   Balance o   Beauty o   Bold o   Brave o   Calm o   Capable o   Careful o   Challenge o   Charity o   Collaborative o   Community o   Compassion o   Competency o   Connection o   Contribution o   Cooperation o   Courage o   Creativity o   Curiosity o   Daring o   Decisive o   Dependable o   Determination o   Diligence o   Duty o   Eagerness o   Education o   Efficient o   Empathetic o   Encouragement o   Energy o  

In this episode, we dive into the 5th season, called the Crossroads,  where you will find all the power to stay in Summer with your kids. 

In this episode, we explore the season of Fall and the ways we can slip out of Summer and into Fall with our children. 

Spring is the season coming out of Winter, thawing the frozen landscape. In your relationship with your children, Spring in The 5 Seasons of Connection is a time to build bridges back towards Summer, nurturing an environment where togetherness can bloom.

This is the season where many families find themselves disconnected from their children and living under a heaviness of unhappiness. In this introduction of Winter, we will learn about this season of your relationship and some ways you can navigate the cold, harsh time.

This podcast episode is the introduction to The 5 Seasons of Connection philosophy that I have created to stay in deep, loving connection with my children. In this episode, I will share the five seasons that we encounter in every interaction, and how we can navigate them best to meet the needs of our family members.

In this episode, I share some history about our family's adoption of a dairy-free diet for my youngest son, and I work with a Mama2Mama mom about her son's dietary restrictions. In finding her way on her new path, this mom actually helps her own mother create a whole new business opportunity! Thanks for listening!

I am honored to continue to share about some Mama2Mama stories that I experienced last year when I committed to helping 50 mamas in 50 days before our MamaCon event in the spring. In this episode, I am sharing about travelling. Most moms I talk to would love to travel more but many are afraid of making it work with a baby, toddler, preschooler, or even school-aged child. They feel overwhelmed with the amount of stuff that they think their kids need, and how to move about without the comforts of home. Take a listen to learn more about how I worked with one mama to help her design a trip of her dreams for her family, and we didn't start with her budget. Some questions we covered include: How do you want to feel on your trip? How adventurous is your family? How active is your family? Do you like to be in one place or do you like to move around?   Once you get honest with what you love most, and how you want to feel, finding a destination in the world is easy.   Hope you enjoy this episode and feel free to join u

Hi everyone, thank you for joining us for episode 5! Today we are dipping our toe into two more Mama2Mama stories with lovely women named Erica and Janelle. They both started off saying many of the things I said when I felt ashamed I wasn’t being a good mom after my brain crash. “Everything was so hard, so overwhelming. I sat there and took it and took it, without ever asking for help. I didn’t tell any girlfriends, I didn’t tell my husband, I didn’t ask for help from anyone and the stress of my life chipped me, cracked me, and smashed me open over and over and then I felt horrible for raging out of control.” I totally understood their hopelessness. For me having this mysterious neurological condition that left me confused, exhausted, dizzy and in pain, I worried constantly that I would be seen as a failure. What if people saw how messed up I was, how I seemed weirdly confused, or completely unable to keep track of when we needed to send snack to school on our designated day? What if my kids wouldn’t be invit

We’re going to continue to explore the topics that came up during the Mama2Mama Campaign because I think during our motherhood journey, we’ve all been in many of these places, and felt many of the feelings these women shared. Some of the non-critical information has been changed to protect the identity of the mama. Today we are going to talk about mom guilt. This theme came up in almost all conversations when women over and over told me all the ways they were failing their kids. But, the fact that these women thought they were failing their kids, most certainly meant they weren’t! I’m going to share the stories of two mamas to dig a little deeper into this powerful and paralyzing epidemic. I’m going to start with a stat. According to a recent Baby Center survey, 94% of moms confessed to feeling shame in the last 3 months. 94%! That’s unbelievable! According to authors Devra Renner and Aviva Pflock, coauthors of a book called Mommy Guilt: Learn to Worry Less, Focus on What Matters Most, and Raise Happier Kids,