Honest as a Mother

Send a textAmanda is joined by Carol Szuky, who is a mentor, entrepreneur and business coach to talk about manifestation, creating your own goals and working through what you actually want vs what we may have been told we should want.Included in this episode:Change is scary, but change is good. You are allowed to change your mind when it comes to what you want out of your life.How becoming a mother can change your priorities in your life, and how we can allow ourselves to pivot.What is a paradigm and how can we work through them?How can we learn to trust ourselves?Manifestation - What it actually is and how you can manifest in your life - and no, it is not with magic.Follow Carol on IG @carol.szukyFollow Amanda on IG @amanda.gurmanDon't forget to get yourself started on Magic Mind! Go to www.magicmind.com/JANhonestasamother and use code HONESTMOTHER20Support the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Dr. Carolina Arreola, who is a licensed N.D. in the U.S. and they are discussing the importance of gut health and how it can affect your mental health.Included in this episode:How does your gut health affect your mental health? Carolina is breaking this down so we can really understand it.How can we support our gut health daily? What small changes can we make to help ourselves?Probiotics - What is the deal and do we need to be taking them?Microbiome - what is it and why is it so important.How stress can deeply affect your overall gut health and mental wellbeing.Follow Carolina on IG @arreola_naturopathic and TikTok @dr.arreolaDon't forget to get yourself started on Magic Mind! Go to www.magicmind.com/JANhonestasamother and use code HONESTMOTHER20 Support the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by psychologist, and self-awareness coach, Dr. Stephanie Lopez to talk about setting boundaries and breaking away from people pleasing.Included in this episode:What is people pleasing? What are boundaries?Where does people pleasing come from?How it is safe to be human.How many of us that are people pleasers were told to disconnect from our intuition and our true selves in childhood.What is defensiveness and why do people think it is actually think it is part of their personality.Why being a people pleaser can actually make people not trust you.Follow Stephanie on IG @drstephanielopezWork with Steph: www.brave-method.comWanting to try Magic Mind? Head to www.magicmind.com/honestasamotherDon't forget to use code HONESTMOTHER20 to receive up to 50% off your subscription!Support the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by her friend Darci Prince to literally shoot the sh!t. Both Amanda and Darci were diagnosed late in life with ADHD, and as they take their masks off, they realize that maybe some things they thought they "liked" they don't. They are both learning about who they really are rather than who they "think they should be".Included in this episode:Food - What do we actually like vs what gives us the ick.What did we want to do with our lives in high school vs what we do now.Tattoos - thoughts on them and do we have them? What advice would we give to our 16 year old selves?& SO much more.Follow Darci on IG @dpdigitalcreationsFollow Amanda on IG @Amanda.gurmanSupport the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Nicole Schiener who is a registered psychotherapist, mother, wife and mental health advocate for mothers to talk about inner child healing, generational trauma and how is effects our parenting.Included in this episode:Nicole is amazing, and shares her own vulnerable story with us regarding her own experiences with mental illness, both pre-kids and postpartum.How Nicole had an "aha" moment when she realized how her own struggles were interfering with her being the best parent she could be.Inner child healing - why is it important and how can it help us become better parents.Generational trauma - what is it? How do we "break the cycle"Follow Nicole on IG @peaceandpossibility Work with Nicole: www.peaceandpossibility.caCheck out her program for caregivers: https://juliecusmariu.com/caring-without-carrying-it-all/Support the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Stephanie Arnold who is a best selling author, speaker and mother who is here to share her experience with premonitions, intuition and being clinically dead for 37 seconds. Included in this episode:Stephanie shares her story, which you may already know for the Netflix docuseries "Surviving Death".Stephanie shares how she was having premonitions about her dying on the day she would also give birth to her second child.What advice does she have for moms when it comes to advocating for themselves?How Stephanie has now been able to recall the events that happened on the day she gave birth, even while she was clinically dead for 37 seconds.What is her outlook on death now?How can mothers learn to trust themselves and their intuition?Follow Stephanie on IG @stepharnold37 Find more about Steph: www.stephaniearnold.netPurchase her book: https://www.amazon.ca/37-Seconds-Revealed-Heavens-Help/dp/0062402323/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701117475&sr=8-1Support the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Teen Mom OG Mackenzie Douthit to talk all things motherhood, co-parenting and mental health.**TRIGGER WARNING**This episode has conversations of depression, intrusive thoughts and suicidal ideation. Included in this episode:An update on Mackenzie - is she divorced now officially?What does her co-parenting situation look like?How did she end up on 16 and pregnant?Was her entry into motherhood what she expected it to be?Mackenzie opens up about her experience with Postpartum Depression, what it was like for her, and her advice for other moms.How Mackenzie is actively taking care of her mental health nowDoes she talk to anyone from Teen Mom?Mackenzie is spilling the tea on her new relationship, and who the man making her glow is.Work with Mackenzie at: www.bodybymac.comFollow Mackenzie on IG @mackenziemckeeFollow Amanda on IG @amanda.gurmanSupport the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Allie from the IG account @bravoafterthoughts to chat all things realiTEA. Included in this podcast:Scandoval - not what happened but what has happened since the news broke. Raquel on Bethanys podcast and what we think the next season of VPR is going to look like.RHONJ - Team Melissa or Team Teresa? What are our thoughts on the upcoming season?Summer House - Our thoughts on: Paige and Craig, Amanda and Kyle and Carl and Lindsey.RHOC - Shannons DUI, what will Shannon do moving forward, Tamra's return, needed or not?RHONY - Did we love it or hate it?!Follow Allie on IG @bravoafterthoughts for ALL the bravo tea.Don't forget to check out SPATULA Foods at www.spautla.com and use the code HONEST for $40 off your first order.Follow Amanda on IG @amanda.gurmanSupport the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Celeste Yvonne who is a recovery coach, mother and author of the book "Its not about the Wine" to discuss "mommy wine culture", becoming sober, being sober curious and the mental load of motherhood.Included in this episode:How did alcohol impact her parenting?Anxiety and drinking "Hangxiety" what is it and how did it effect Yvonne so deeply.How can someone get brave enough to say "I do not drink" and how to work through the societal pressures to drink alcohol.Mental load of motherhood - what is it and why is is causing mothers everywhere to numb out.Mommy Wine Culture - What is this? Why is is so prevalent now?Follow Celeste on IG @theultimatemomchallengePurchase her book: https://a.co/d/7mZn8vLDon't forget to check out SPATULA foods at www.spatulafoods.com and use code HONEST to get $40 off your first order!Follow Amanda on IG @amanda.gurmanSupport the show

Send a textAmanda is joined by Christine Cunningham who is a Social Service Worker here in Ontario who specializes in the perinatal period to talk about maternal mental health and parenting with ADHD.Included in this episode:Parenting with ADHD - what does this look like for Christine? What has her experience been like and what ADHD symptoms did she experience?Grief in motherhood - Christine explains how she wishes she would have received an ADHD diagnosis earlier than when she did and how her life could have been impacted.Labels/Diagnosis - What do Amanda and Christine feel about them? Can a label or diagnosis help you understand yourself more?Learning from our children and what that looks like for both Amanda and Christine.Medication Stigma - ADHD meds and SSRI's.Follow Christine on IG @perinatalwellbeing_ontarioDon't forget to check out SPATULA at www.spatulafoods.com and use code HONEST for $40 off your first order!Support the show