The Mamahood After Trauma podcast, an independent mental health podcast for trauma-surviving mothers. I started this podcast from nothing. Somehow, it just passed 10,000 downloads. I'm still having a hard time believing I'm writing that sentence. Mamahood After Trauma has officially surpassed 10,000 lifetime podcast downloads. And while 10,000 is a pretty damn cool number, that's actually not the part of this milestone that blows my mind the most. This little independent podc

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Have you ever pushed through a difficult season, caring for everyone else and doing whatever needed to be done, only to feel exhauste

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Intro What happens when perfectionism doesn't look like perfection anymore? For Monica, perfectionism once looked like straight-A grades, extracur

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Intro Sometimes the things we reach for to cope really did help us survive. Maybe they gave us an escape when life felt unbearable. Maybe they hel

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Healing from trauma can be a long and complicated journey, especially when past experiences have shaped the way you connect with your

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction One of the biggest fears for mothers healing from childhood trauma is unintentionally repeating the same patterns they experienced gr

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Mindfulness can be a valuable practice for mothers who are healing from trauma and learning to parent with greater intention. When ev

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Stress can show up in every area of life, especially when you’re balancing work, relationships, motherhood, responsibilities, and you

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Parenting while healing from trauma can bring old emotional patterns to the surface—from people-pleasing and suppressing emotions to

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction The words we hear growing up can shape the way we see ourselves, and the words we use as adults can influence how our children learn

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Healing from family-of-origin trauma can be especially complex because the people connected to the hurt may still be part of your lif

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Triggers can make ordinary parenting moments feel much bigger than they actually are. A child’s tone of voice, emotions, behavior, or

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Healing from trauma doesn’t stop when you become a mother. In fact, parenting can bring new layers of healing to the surface as you n

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Childhood weight struggles can be more complex than food choices or physical activity alone. Emotional experiences, family patterns,

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Motherhood can bring incredible joy, but it can also bring old wounds to the surface in ways you may never have expected. For mothers

Understanding your trauma is important—but insight alone doesn't create change. Explore why healing requires new responses, integration, and reflection. You can understand your trauma and still get triggered. You can know exactly where a pattern came from and still find yourself repeating it. You can recognize your childhood wounds, understand your attachment patterns, identify your triggers, read the books, listen to the podcasts, go to therapy, journal, reflect, and become

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Saying “no” may be simple in theory, but for trauma survivors, it can bring up guilt, anxiety, fear, and a deep sense of responsibili

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Being “the strong one” can look admirable from the outside, but constantly giving, fixing, supporting, and carrying the weight for ev

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction Healing after trauma is about more than surviving what happened to you. It’s about understanding how those experiences have shaped yo

Welcome to Mamahood After Trauma, a space created to support mothers as they heal from trauma, break generational cycles, and discover healthier ways of showing up for themselves and their families. Here, you’ll find honest conversations, practical tools, and encouragement to remind you that healing is possible, one step at a time. Introduction For trauma-surviving mamas, setting boundaries can feel far more complicated than simply saying “no.” When people-pleasing, keeping t