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$More Than a Merchant Mariner\'s Wife: Empowering Partners of Merchant Mariners to reconnect with themselves and unite with each other.$ More Than a Merchant Mariner's Wife: Empowering Partners of Merchant Mariners to reconnect with themselves and unite with each other.Episode 26: Rising Above the Chaos | A Journey from Hot Mess Mom to Growth Coach with Brittni ClarksonSend us a textToday we are talking to Brittni Clarkson, who is the host of the Meant to Bloom Podcast, a Personal Growth Coach for Hot Mess Moms, author, content creator, and recently the founder of a monthly membership! After meeting her through an online membership we are both part of, I knew I had to bring her on to share her story and journey! Let's dive in and talk about the tools she used for pulling herself out of survival mode and into thriving mode, unlocking the power of Nervous System regulation, stress r...2024-04-3029 min

Renewed Mama | Parenting Tips, Reduce Overwhelm, Communicate Better, Speak Life, Strong Mom MindsetYour Thoughts Matter with Mental Health and Depression with Special Guest Brittni ClarksonHow important are your thoughts if you deal with mental health and depression? Brittni Clarkson shares her story of working through mental health, depressive episodes, and suicidal thoughts. She shares how important the thoughts and words we say to ourselves really are. Even the thoughts we put on someone else because we’re sure they are thinking that about us influences our mental health. If you have ever blown something out of proportion in your mind….You know….made it a bigger problem than it really was, than you’ll relate to her lasagna sto...2023-11-3041 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset136 | 5 Simple habits that will help you live the life on purpose, instead of autopilotWelcome to Meant to Bloom - it’s the personal growth podcast for hot mess moms. This is the show where we talk about real life motherhood struggles plus simple steps and strategies to take control of your time, drop the mom guilt, strengthen your sanity and start to unblock your joy. Join me and take the journey from overwhelmed to overjoyed, from hot mess to happy mom. I’m here to walk with you as you create the life you’re meant to be living full of peace, joy and love. This is a safe space to drop...2023-11-1315 min

Redefine Your WellnessOvercoming the Dark Grip of Depression with Brittni ClarksonBrittni Clarkson joins us this week as she shares her incredibly vulnerable struggle through years of depression and what got her out of it once and for all.Her wake up moment and story coming out of the spiral is powerful. The realization of the simple little things that got her from slipping into the depths again will hit you, especially if you’ve been through the dark times yourself or watched a loved one go through them.Brittni gives you simple, actionable steps to take you from being in a negative spiral to having a...2023-10-1133 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset118 | More books that healed my broken, hot-mess, mom-life [PART2]Welcome to Meant to Bloom Podcast where we talk real life motherhood struggles and simple steps to a brighter, more abundant perspective - you can be a happy mom and I’m here to walk with you on this journey to the life you’re meant to be living full of peace, joy and love - I’m your host, Brittni Clarkson and we are meant to bloom. Today's books recommendations are specially selected for the woman who feels a lack of self worth, self control, and need for self preservation due to the condition of her home. Y...2023-09-2830 min

Emotionally Healthy Legacy- Anger management for Christian moms, christian parenting, patient mom, calm mom, Christian motherhood, mom rage, Mom mindset, parenting triggers, mom guilt, controlling anger159. Where to start when you feel like you are drowning in overwhelm as a mom // Brittni ClarksonOverwhelm can be paralyzing. It's a feeling that most moms experience and often times don't know how to cope with it. I invited Brittani to speak life into you today! In this episode you will learn:What contributes to feeling overwhelmed3 steps to overcome overwhelm Mindset shifts that will support you if you are feeling overwhelmedBrittni uses her own history of mental illness and stories from her past and present to teach other moms how to overcome their negative thoughts and embrace all that they are called to be. Brittni is the host of Th...2023-09-1537 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset87: Money Management, Financial Freedom & Empowered Motherhood with Dr Raquel MullerFinancial literacy is the key to financial freedom Raquel recently helped my husband and I set up the life insurance plans we’ve been putting off for the last 8 years, as well as savings plans for the kids that we had meant to set up with each birth - If you want someone to take you by the hand and lead you to the financial freedom and next right steps for your family, while taking nothing out of pocket from you personally, get in touch with Raquel. In this episode we’re chatti...2023-05-3020 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset86: 3 Simple Solutions to Do Everything With LoveWe’re supposed to be doing all things “in love,” but when society tells you it’s cooler to be a hot mess, have a bad attitude about all your responsibilities and count down the minutes until it’s “wine o’clock,” it can be even more difficult - because having love in your heart while changing a baby out of the third blow out diaper of the day isn’t already hard enough. There’s a few reasons we struggle to feel love while going about our daily mom-life, and I’m going to unravel these for you today. In my co...2023-05-2348 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset85: Quick Productivity Mindset Check (via Bad Ass Moms in Business Workshop)This system I’m going to share today is loosely based on a 5 day mindset realign challenge that I have taught spontaneously for the last 2 years, and a workbook that accompanies it has become my best selling printable product. I’m here today to talk about what I’m calling Peaceful Productivity. I’m not here to peddle a superficial productivity that checks every item off your to-do list while you miss out on your kid’s childhood and show up burnt out and bitter every time you come up for air. I’m all about balanc...2023-05-1633 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset84: Probably the Real Reason You Feel Like a Crappy MomMotherhood is not housekeeping. Adulting with kids is not the same as “motherhood”. Anyone trying to do tasks with a child is facing an incredible handicap - that’s not what makes motherhood hard. Good moms can suck at cleaning, cooking, baking. How do you define motherhood? How do you measure your success as a mom? In this episode we’re chatting about: Moms can have all kinds of skills Motherhood is not housekeeping You are a good mom Love Your Home course: http://blossomacademy.teachable.com/p/love-your-h...2023-05-0917 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset83: Keeping Our Kids Safe with Dr. Missy GryderTrigger warning: This episode contains information about childhood physical and sexual abuse and is designed for adult listeners. Headphones are recommended. We like to pretend that some things aren’t a problem until they are a problem. In some cases this may work for you… But when it comes to the safety of our children, that’s not the time to chance it. We have to stop turning a blind eye to its existence and talk about the ugly pieces we don’t want to talk about to prevent these tragedies and atrocities from continuing on into our childr...2023-05-0231 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset82: Live Unattached to Your To-Do List, How To 'Do It All' & Stress Less.You’re doing too much, bae. I let go of my to-do list over a year ago, and it’s been my most productive year - mainly because I’m not spending my energy beating myself up over what’s left unfinished. There’s a very simple method to getting your to do list complete and putting this method into your weekly rhythm can prevent a to do list from growing. You can ditch your list all together by using your planner in a way that helps you win your day. It’s not about planning every detail of your day, it...2023-04-2515 min

The Purpose ShowEp 296: Happy Moms Do These 3 Things with Brittni ClarksonMotherhood is meant to be JOYFUL but the reality is that isn't always the first feeling moms admit that they feel. If you feel like you are drowning and overwhelmed ... you are not alone and this conversation is for YOU. Brittni Clarkson is going to help you unblock your joy in 3 simple ways, and I know it is going to change the game for your motherhood and your life. Brittni Clarkson is the creator of the Happy Mom Method, a course designed to help you transform your mom-life, unblock your joy & love the home y...2023-04-1933 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset81: What You Want Isn't Always What You Need; Unexpected Joys & Perfect Timing With Courtney WendzickiLife is full of unexpected joys, but what about those times you were so sure you didn't WANT this joy? We're talking about unexpected second pregnancies. I think we don't talk often enough how terrifying pregnancy can be even for a mama who's been there before, even for a mama who's been TRYING to conceive. One thing is for sure: excitement and fear are almost identical sensations, and sometimes we feel both at the same time. Courtney was a one-and-done mama who recently had her mind changed for her. I'm so glad she's here to share her...2023-04-1823 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset80: Hope Deferred Does What? Be All In On Your Dreams, Even If You Think They're "Small"I’m sick of being told that I have to be a mom-preneur to live a fulfilled life - yes, I am building a business as a stay at home mom, but too often I get fooled into thinking that the mom part is the lesser of the two. I do my best to create a life that harmonizes the work, the play, the love, etc, but sometimes old thought patterns make a cameo and turn things upside down. I want to normalize that part - the realigning, the recentering, the refocusing on what’s truly important and impactful in o...2023-04-1128 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset79: Positive Intelligence, Self Sabotage and Healthy Relationships with Positive Intelligence Coach Dorice HorensteinPositive Intelligence Coach, Dorice Horenstein, is dropping some absolute bombs on today’s episode. This one is packed with insight, wisdom, love and understanding and this is blow-your-mind, melt-your-brain, kind of stuff. I’m so excited to share this juicy news with you, friend. Number take away: Love yourself enough to take action. In this episode we’re chatting about: Positive Intelligence and Psychology Self Sabotage and Sages Empathy and Relationship to others and self Positive intelligence book Self assessment for self sabotage *********************************** Connect with Dorice Horens...2023-03-2833 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset78: Facing My Own Ugliness & Toxic Positivity; My Mental Breakdown in a Vegas Hotel Room.Some things just don’t go the way we plan. My weekend getaway to Vegas for example. What was meant to be a romantic and fun trip with the husband, wasn’t meant to include a two hour sob fest in the hotel room rethinking my entire life, and yet that’s exactly what the weekend needed. I wasn’t being honest with myself, I was hiding away the ugly parts and pretended I’d overcome them each time, when really I was running away. The problem with running is they will always catch up to you, and when th...2023-03-2219 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset77: True of False: Being a Mom is Hard - A Coffee Conversation with Kelsey McKenna.This statement might not sit well with you, but Being a Mom is Hard - and ignoring the difficulties is just another piece of toxic positivity. Our tendencies to hide away our troubles, put on a happy face and keep on swimming is what’s tearing us apart. Mama, let’s stand together, let’s hold one another’s hand. It’s not always hard, but it’s okay to admit that it’s hard right now. In the end it all makes sense, it all makes us stronger, it’s all worth it. But in the middle, know you’re not alone...2023-03-1439 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset76: Navigating a Season of Waiting, Holding Onto Gratitude & Managing AnxietyI'm getting a bit honest and vulnerable today (okay, so I do that all the time...) I'm sharing with you a sneak peek into my life right now in this season of waiting, transition, and anxiety. I'm choosing fullness over busy-ness, I'm choosing peace over stress. And here's exactly how I'm doing that right now, in real time, today. In this episode we’re chatting about: The ups and downs of house hunting and watching your dreams slip away Unexpected blessings when things don’t work out Managing anxiety through the chaos Listen to these relate...2023-03-0821 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset75: The Real Reasons You're Overwhelmed By Healthy Living with Lucy HutchingsHow many times have you started that healthy living journey only to quickly be met by the towering overwhelm of it all? It doesn’t have to be that way. Today Lucy Hutchings is sharing her expert advice on making healthy living realistic, simple, and sustainable. Lucy is revealing the real reasons you’re overwhelmed by this shift AND giving her tips on how to overcome each of those reasons. The Healthy Mama Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-healthy-mama-podcast/id1610786350 Join Lucy's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inflammationsupportforbusymoms Follow Lucy...2023-02-2816 min

Being a Mom is HardBrittni Clarkson: Mental health, gratitude and enjoying motherhoodIn this episode, you’ll meet Brittni Clarkson, a mom raising three boys – ages 6, 4 and 3. Brittni is a podcaster, author, and motivational speaker – someone who is passionate about helping moms overcome their overwhelm so they can enjoy motherhood.Brittni's story is so inspiring and she shares it in such an open and vulnerable way – she gave me chills and I was truly speechless a few times during this interview. I’m so honored to be able to share it with you all. CW/TW: Depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicideHere are a...2023-02-2239 min

The Healthy Mama Podcast057: How Keeping Things Simple And Adding Gratitude Can Improve Health With Brittni ClarksonIn this episode, I talk with Brittni Clarkson, mom coach and host of Meant To Bloom Podcast, about many struggles that us busy moms face.Have you ever felt guilty when you throw together a quick meal that isn’t ‘perfect’?Have you ever felt guilty about taking care of yourself because you feel like you need to show up for everyone else first?These are important topics that we dive into in this episode.We talk about:how a gratitude practice doesn’t have to look a certain way and how it c...2023-02-2227 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset74: How I Use My Planner to Save my Mental HealthI rarely talk about my planner for how big of a part it plays in my story and daily life. I’ve been asked a few questions about HOW I actually use my planner and approach differing schedules from day to day, and I want to answer those here. I also want to tell you how I used my daily planner to beat my bad attitude and save my mental health. I’m also going to share some of the tips and insights I have in response to a few questions I’ve received recently about this topic. Here’...2023-02-2119 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset73: Get Rooted in Your Abundant Worthiness with Emily LouisThere’s just too many different ways a woman today can be plagued by unworthiness. I know especially as women, we are surrounded by a lot of comparisons. In social media, advertisements, magazines, tv… And they just show you pictures of what other places look like, other homes look like, other people look and that comparison starts you thinking “I'm not that good.” And then there’s this productivity based worthiness. There’s this unworthiness that comes from feeling like we can’t achieve it all, we can’t complete our daily to-do lists, we can’t keep everyo...2023-02-1419 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset72: Your Should Buy Yourself Flowers & Love Yourself BetterWe've all got that new Miley banger on repeat, and I now there's tons of you happily married ladies feeling like you "shouldn't" be singing it with such passion. But I want to challenge that mindset and say: Yes, you SHOULD by yourself flowers, even if your man already does. Self Love is the topic today! Let's chat about it. More from this episode here: https://brittniclarkson.com/2023/02/07/72-buy-yourself-flowers-love-yourself-better/ Mindset Makeover Freebie: https://brittniclarkson.ck.page/happymommindset Happy Mom Method: http://brittniclarkson.com/the-happy-mom-method/ Write a Review Here: https://podcasts.apple.com...2023-02-0719 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindsetBONUS - Why Those Cleaning or Self Care Challenges Aren't Working For You.Hey friend, The Happy Mom Method is on a mega sale for the last time ever this week and I wanted to share with you how this program is finally going to help you feel like a capable adult human. Enroll here: http://brittniclarkson.com/the-happy-mom-method/ Or test the waters with this freebie: https://brittniclarkson.ck.page/happymommindset 2023-02-0310 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset71: Living Everyday with Intention - Mindset RealignIn order to live our lives with intention, we must first know what our intentions are. We must ask ourselves questions to understand what is really important to us, and seek a life that makes these a priority. A life without without intention is like drifting in the sea without a destination. You might be moving great distances, you might be paddling for hours on end, exhausting yourself, but if you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there. If you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there. Setting the intent for your life, and each...2023-01-3122 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset70: Is Your HOME the Reason You're MENTAL HEALTH Sucks Right Now?I could cite numerous studies that link the connection between your mental health and your physical environment, but I'll let you Google that yourself. In this episode I'm joined by Tasha Brendible (host of Turned Up with Tash Podcast) to chat about the affects our home can have on our health, as well as sharing her professional tips for simple and effective cleaning when you feel totally overwhelmed already. Check out more here: BrittniClarkson.com 2023-01-2423 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset69: We Have Got to Stop Blocking Our Own Pleasure!Mama, this conversation isn't easy to have, but this is one other part of life you need to let be easy - YOU. ;) I know I've got into a terrible habit of blocking my own joy, pleasure, ecstasy.... Have you? Are you in a habit of creating barriers between you and your spouse? Do you suddenly "have a headache" when any opportunity for intimacy arises? Or am I totally alone on this one...?? More at this link: BrittniClarkson.com Sign up for the Live Challenge: here 2023-01-1716 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindsetBONUS Birthday Mini-sodeHey friend, it's my birthday! And of course, you're the one I want to spend it with. I love that you're here, I so appreciate you letting me into your life here, I'm very grateful to have you. This episode is short and sweet: I just wanted to share with you how I spend my birthday, the realization that I knew my mom when she was my age, and the 2 things I really really want for my birthday - 1) a review on Apple Podcasts from YOU, & 2) share your favorite episode on your Instagram and tag me (@britclarkson) s...2023-01-1405 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset68: Ditch the GUILT & Let it Be EASY with Natasha MilaAs you may know, I’m currently in a season of letting peripheral things go or be as easy as possible in order to very peacefully prioritize my life. My focus right now is on family and I’m trying to let my actions reflect that, and be very intentional with how my time is spent. There’s two absolute truths: 1. Easy isn’t always simple. & 2. Guilt is garbage. This last year I put a heavy focus on letting things be “easy.” I had no idea at the time that I would have to overcome so many mental roadblocks before that could r...2023-01-1035 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset67: Bringing in More Peace, Love & Joy to Your Daily Life.Sign up here for the Mindset Realign Challenge happening January 30, 2023! I know it’s all about New Year, New Me right now - but I’m not falling for that this year. I’m finally happy with who I am. I may still find myself struggling to love myself, but I know who I am and why I exist and I believe that we are each, individually, created perfectly for our purposes. I’m happy with who I am - it feels good to say that, give it a try. I don’t want to change who I am, I just want...2023-01-0328 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset66: Sometimes You Have to Slow Down in Order to Keep Moving ForwardI know it sounds like it doesn’t work, but I promise it does. When we push ourselves to burn out, we end up missing out on life as it’s happening and we end up missing our target much of the time. On the flip side, when we pull back, we savor the sweet moments of the present and we align our shot, the arrow flies true. We hit the target. I’m pulling back, and I’m promising myself an enjoyable and restful holiday season. January holds many wonderful things and I want to be all in o...2022-12-1615 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset65: How to Handle an Emotional Funk and Care for YourselfIt’s a busy season and it’s really easy to forget about yourself. I know, I forgot about myself too. We had a month of sickness in our house and I missed out on a lot of nights of good sleep, then I depended on coffee for energy and screwed with my digestion and my hormones and my adrenals and all that stuff. This sleep deprivation and lack of nutrition and hydration led me into an emotional exhaustion and now, here I sit, exhausted in so many ways. I’m taking my joy back, I’m taking c...2022-12-1324 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset64: How to Treat Your Husband and Yourself with Respect; a Biblical, Empowered, Loving Approach with Kate JonesI've heard too many women bad mouthing their husbands behind their backs. I've heard even more women nagging and verbally assaulting their husbands to their faces (I'm one of them, oops). I recorded this conversation with my friend, Kate, last year and I have to admit, it was helpful to revisit some of the wisdom in this chat. Being mindful in your marriage of how you're talking to yourself and to your spouse is one of the most important things you can do. Pay attention to what your triggers are and why you're really getting upset...2022-12-0931 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset63: Becoming Your Next Best Self Might Be More Simple Than You ThinkYou’ve heard the idiom to dress for the job you want, but today I’m not talking about just your clothes. It’s your attitude, your habits, your mindset. Becoming the next best version of you doesn’t have to be super complicated, yeah it’s gonna be work, but it’s worthwhile work. Don’t wait until New Year to decide what new habit you want to start, or old one to drop. Choose now, who you want to BE and then align your habits with her. Reminder: If you order the new Everyday Joy P...2022-12-0626 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset62: Don't Pee Your Pants with Pauli Hannan (you don't have to pee when you sneeze, and Kegels aren't the solution!)Hey mama, let’s unnormalize peeing your pants a little when you sneeze. If you’re out of the loop like me, you just found out that incontinence of any kind (even a little bit) isn’t okay and Kegels are NOT the answer. So, what the heck are we supposed to do then? Today I am joined by Pauli Hannan from Beyond the V, she’s a mom who understands that you don’t have a ton of time or energy to start some strict, confining regimen to fix this issue, she also knows what she’s talking ab...2022-12-0224 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset61: Be Less Irritated by Your Family by Supporting Yourself During the HolidaysThe holidays can be a major trigger for some (maybe most) people More time together, more expectations, more financial strain, more to-do yet during a time when your mind, body and soul is screaming at you to rest and slow down and savor the moments. How to keep your sanity and keep your loved ones feeling loved: quality time, clear communication, intentional self-care. Get the Happy Mom Method Here: http://brittniclarkson.com/the-happy-mom-method/ Find everything else mentioned in this episode here: BrittniClarkson.com 2022-11-2919 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset60: The Groundwork to Creating a Life You LoveI believe motherhood is awesome and all those hard parts aren’t really motherhood. The hardest parts of motherhood should be watching our kids struggle to learn something new, or going through a heart break. Keeping up with dishes, stressing about what schooling options to choose, getting behind on laundry, and feeling like you’re not an absolute MILF, shouldn’t be the “hard parts of motherhood.” Because let’s face it. those are just a distraction for the real reason you’re a mom, you’re real purpose as a mom. Getting hung up on those chores...2022-11-2523 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset59: How to Quit Faking Gratitude & Ignite Real Abundant BlessingsI know what it feels like to be faking gratitude. I know how it feels to have lost faith in humanity, to feel unseen, to feel afraid of your own voice, to feel so alone yet surrounded by others. I know what it’s like to be judged for everything you say aloud, to be criticized, to feel unsafe, to feel undervalued. I know how that feels and yet, I know how to still be so rooted and so certain of what lights me up inside. I know what it’s like to find gratitude in the midst of depr...2022-11-2215 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset58: Take Care or Your Most Basic Needs FirstI wanna have a serious chat with you today about doing the things you know you’re supposed to be doing. Too often we get caught up in the excitement of all the fun ways to practice self-care, but when it comes down to it, none of that really matters if you aren’t taking care of your basic needs first. Who cares if you’ve just had a mani-pedi when you haven’t had enough sleep. No amount of retail therapy can make up for being dehydrated or under-noursihed. Especially now, during cold and flu season, when you...2022-11-1816 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset57: Finding Joy in Letting Your Home Look Lived-In (even with guests over)Everything mentioned in this episode can be found here: BrittniClarkson.com Are you still stressing about the holidays and totally lost on the concept of letting it be easy? I got you. Join me in listening to today’s episode of Meant to Bloom where I continue this series of embracing ease and joy in this season of life. Today we’re chatting about your authenticity, your vulnerability, how you feel about your home, and permissions to be imperfectly joyful.2022-11-1522 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset56: Ditch the Holiday Stress & Have a Season of Peace & Joy InsteadEverything mentioned in this episode can be found here: BrittniClarkson.com Okay, Mama Scrooge. The holidays are happening. I don’t know if you go into the holidays with the Bah-Humbug spirit or if it just creeps in as you undergo the heavy stress of carrying every event, gift, plan, and meal on your shoulders, or if it happens in the moment your sanity snaps at Christmas Eve dinner with the in-laws, or if you manage to make it through all of the season in denial that you were actually miserable the whole time and nothing lived up...2022-11-1119 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset55: What to do When Someone Tells You to "Just Calm Down"We’ve all been there, in a rage over something minor, worked up over an inconvenience, flying into a panic attack out of nowhere, then someone says: “just calm down” and everything intensifies. You get hit with that burning hot desire to just throat punch them. But what if we didn’t get angry when someone says this to us, what if we really did “just calm down?” Today I want to share with you my thoughts on this topic, how I really feel when someone says this to me, and some of my best practices an...2022-11-0827 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset54: Raising Independent Kids and Allowing Them to Learn From Natural ConsequencesI’m no parenting expert, but I do my best. One of the trickiest parts of motherhood for me right now is the waiting and the trusting. Waiting for my kids to “do it themselves” and trusting that it’s worth the extra time for them to learn to do it themselves. Currently we’re also working on breaking those ingrained habits of creating punishments for our kids' defiant behavior. I’m talking about the times our kids refuse to wear coats on a cold day. There’s no need to punish it when they can learn from the natur...2022-11-0413 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset53: How to Have a Truly Restful DayThe other day I had a friend message me and ask “what does a restful day look like for you?” And that got me thinking, how many busy, high achieving, mamas need to know what it looks like to actually rest? Rest doesn’t just come as spa days, silent evenings with a cup of tea, or hours on hours of cuddling up in a chair and reading your favorite comfort novel. Rest can look like an adventure through the woods, it can look like a day out shopping, it can look like Disney movie marathons with the ki...2022-11-0116 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset52: Declutter Your Space to Have More Time and Energy to Rock Your Mom-Life with Abby HaggardI’m excited to share this amazing interview with you all today. I had the blessing of meeting up Abby Haggard of The Fullness Show to chat about her new course releasing this week. There’s so much heart and fire in Abby when she talks about freeing up your time and space to show up fully for the ones you love more. I can’t wait for you to meet her and glean the wisdom and divine inspiration from her words in this episode and beyond. “Free yourself up for what actually matters” - Abby Haggard Ever...2022-10-2725 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset51: How to Stop Stressing About Your Overwhelming To-Do ListI know that to-do list is insane right now and you want to get a lot of things done before the holidays consume you… You feel pulled in so many directions with a 1000 things you have to do. I’m here to slap you in the face in the best way I know how. My friend, you don’t HAVE to do anything. I want you to see the power in your perception, alter the way you view reality and wake up to the realization that you WANT to do those things you plan to do. I spent...2022-10-2516 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset50: 3 Minutes of Affirmations to Keep You Moving ForwardThe words we use are important to the life we are choosing to live. The way you talk about yourself matters. The way you talk about your life matters. If you want to make a change and start living a better life, to rise to a higher version of yourself, you’ve got to start talking about yourself and your life as if you’re already there. You don’t heal your depression by talking to yourself like you’re a piece of crap. You’re not going to finally finish that project by shaming yourself about not having...2022-10-2005 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset49: 10 Things You Can Do Right Now if You're Burnt Out and UnmotivatedBurn out is real and it fricking sucks. I’ve shared a lot of tips for preventing the burn out, letting life be easy, and letting go of the stress of the little things, but I haven’t shared much about getting through the burn out when you’re deep in it. It might be hard to take care of yourself right now, it might seem like it’s just one extra thing to do on top of your already overwhelming and endless list, but these tips are going to help. A handful of which can be done in...2022-10-1823 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset48: Practical Advice for Preventing Daily Anxiety with Self-Care Expert, Sara MillerI tried to research the statistics for how common anxiety disorders are, but it started giving me an anxiety attack. I wish I were kidding about that. There seems to be a wide variety of statistics to choose from here, anywhere between 3% and 18% of the US population has anxiety. Those feel incredibly inaccurate from my experience. It leads you to believe anxiety is uncommon, like you’re alone in this. You aren’t alone. You are so far from it. If you have anxiety, or panic attacks, or seemingly unexplainable feelings of fearfulness and you feel isolated in y...2022-10-1330 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset47: The Secret to Living Your Dream LifeI feel like too often, us moms, exclude ourselves from the idea of living a dream life. Mama, I can’t let you do that. You're meant to live your dream life. You’re meant for life to the fullest. You’re meant for abundant blessings. And it’s likely that you’ve already got a life full of blessing and abundance, you’ve just trained your brain not to see that. It’s easy to get caught up in all the negative things in life and forget to see the beauty everywhere. Let’s go ahead and explore that...2022-10-1113 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset46: What You Need to Know About Unblocking Joy in Your LifeI have this theory that we block the joy from our own lives, whether that’s because we feel undeserving of it or because we simply feel uncomfortable with the unknown. I believe that we are meant for joy and peace and too often we let ourselves get caught up in the mundane, day to day tasks of life. We lose sight of what’s truly important to us because we are blinded by stress and urgency. Here’s the thing though, you’re in control of your own life. You get to decide where your time and ener...2022-10-0631 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset45: Is Your Mom-Life Ready for a Season of Change?I love the Autumn. Sweaters, bonfires, pumpkin spice donuts, wooly socks, crisp mornings. Fall is the absolute best for a girl like me, basic. But this time of year always gets me thinking, all of nature is changing, but am I? Am I shedding my dead leaves? Am I making room for growth? Am I doing that sacred inner work to be ready to bloom in the Spring-time? Mama, our lives must go through seasons of change just as nature does. Life is always changing and growing and resting and blooming, and so must we! ...2022-10-0417 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset44: Where to Start When You're Drowning in Overwhelm & AnxietyWhen you’re a mom it seems like the whole weight of the world falls on your shoulders. It can get overwhelming at times - okay, most times, maybe. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Really. Overwhelming isn’t a result of too much to do, it’s actually rooted in not knowing where to start. When you have symptoms of perfectionism that can become paralyzing. I know what it feels like to be drowning in ALL. THE. THINGS. The cooking, the cleaning, the scheduling, the laundry, the dishes, there’s no time for m...2022-09-2925 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset43: One Sneaky Way Comparison is Screwing With Your HappinessComparison is a very sneaky trap. It shows up in unexpected ways and can go unnoticed for some time. Sometimes we accidentally judge the mom who seems to have it all figured out, she finds time to brush her hair and wears real jeans and suddenly here we are feeling like less than. We never meant to judge, we never meant to compare, we never meant to let ourselves feel like trash, but here we are. What you need to know is, you don’t know her full story, you can’t possibly know her full story. Part...2022-09-2714 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset42: Stop Making Fear Based Decisions & Start Living Your Abundant LifeI’m the last person you would have expected to be hosting a podcast. I’d operated mostly from a place of fear all my life; fear of disappointing others, fear of being noticed, fear of looking stupid, fear of losing loved ones, fear of being seen, fear of being heard. I liked to play small and stay out of sight. Something like public speaking or hosting a podcast was literally my greatest fear. And yet, here I am. I struggled with depression and anxiety for most of my life. Anxiety is exhausting. Constantly being afra...2022-09-2228 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset41: It's Okay to Quit While You're Ahead (the real reason I don't drink anymore)I always had this idea that you couldn’t quit something that wasn’t destroying your life. I think mommy-wine culture can be incredibly toxic to those who struggle with addiction. If you’re good with a glass of wine at the end of the day, that’s awesome, more power to you. But if you feel like this could be an unsafe lifestyle for you, the way I did, I want to take this time today to give you permission to quit while you’re ahead. I always felt like I needed to hit rock bottom before I c...2022-09-2021 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset40: 5 Things That Currently Make My Life EasierI keep hearing people say mom-life is hard… I don’t think that’s true though. I think we choose to let it be “hard” so we can stay in our comfort zone, in that hot mess mom culture that feels so safe and chaotic. The truth is: life gets to be easy, if you let it be easy. When we choose to let it be easy, we free up our time and energy to elevate in other areas of our life. We can lean more into our true purpose and grow deeper in our relationships. Life gets bette...2022-09-1545 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset39: Be Courageous Enough to Start Small & Take Baby Steps as a BeginnerIt’s okay to be a beginner. You don’t have to go “all in” when you’re starting something new. You don’t have to learn everything you need to know at the very beginning. You can start slow and begin with almost no knowledge of the thing you’re interested in. You don’t have to be good enough to teach anyone what you’re doing. You don’t have to be able to carry on a conversation about the thing you’re doing - whether that’s homesteading, or gardening, or blogging or podcasting, or making...2022-09-1313 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset38: Are You a MacGyver of Your Mental Health? You deserve to be a priority in your own life.You deserve to be held together by more than duct tape and bailing twine. Your mental health is important and deserves for you to maintain it properly with preventative care. You’re worthy of that. Prioritizing mental health into your every day life without adding to the overwhelm is so important to your lasting peace and joy - and that's what I'm all about. I'm so passionate about sharing all the ways I've learned to do this in my busy mom-life. That's why this podcast exists, that's why I create the products I create, that's why I'm spending hours a day c...2022-09-0832 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset37: Drop the Mom-Guilt and Do the Damn ThingLast month I had an incredibly transformative weekend of personal and business growth. I met a room full of amazing Powerhouse Women, I mapped out a brand new course I’m creating for you with my business mentor, and I had so many realizations that I’m very excited to share with you. Today’s episode was inspired by a conversation with Kacia Ghetmiri of EmpowerHER podcast. When she asked me to my face if I’m coming to her live event in October I had to explain the mom guilt I had to overcome to even come on...2022-09-0613 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset36: How to Meal Plan When You Hate Making Decisions - an honest talk on real life in my kitchenIf one of the biggest stressors in your life right now is that dinner time dilemma, then this is for you. Dinner time can be so much easier than you’re letting it be and it all starts with a foolproof meal plan. I used to let the dinner time dilemma send me into a spiral of depressive symptoms and anxiety attacks. Then I started getting serious about meal planning. Having the decisions made beforehand - before you’ve already had a long day, before you’re nearing burn out, before you’re hangry - can have a profound impact o...2022-09-0119 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset35: How to be Undistracted by False Purpose in MotherhoodThis episode is going to get you questioning a lot about how you’re living your life, my friend. Mindfulness and awareness are key in this topic. Grab your journal, we’re about to dive in deep - you can get started by asking yourself these questions, then tune into the episode for my insight on living your day to day aligned with your purpose and priorities. What’s important to you, what are your priorities? Determine this by reflecting on your life’s purpose - is it to have full involvement in your kid’s lives, i...2022-08-3022 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset34: Step by Step Tips for Putting Mom-Life on Easy Mode - Home EditionYou deserve to let this be easy. Mom-life can be hard, but we don’t have to let the everyday tasks of it be the hard part. The house keeping and schedule coordinating aren’t meant to be the daily battles. Being a good mom isn’t about the perfect house or knowing where everyone’s soccer uniforms are, it’s about showing up and supporting your family by creating a home atmosphere where everyone can relax and enjoy time with one another. Most of us lose sight of that on the regular. It’s okay, we’re gonna get realigned...2022-08-2543 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset33: How to Set up a Toy Library and Save Your Mom-SanityI’ve seen a lot of moms lately desperately searching for a solution to the toy mess, and mama, I feel ya! I’ve got 3 boys of my own - 2, 4, and almost 6 years old. These kids are spoiled by an over-giving grandma (thanks mom!) and the toy collection seems to constantly grow and I’m stuck cleaning up the mess. Or at least I WAS stuck with the mess, until I created our toy library. I tried decluttering the toys, I tried a toy rotation (that proved to be more work for me), I tried shutting the door t...2022-08-2321 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset32: Using Affirmations to Shift Your Mindset and Live Your Best Life YetThe words we use are important to the life we are choosing to live. The way you talk about yourself matters. The way you talk about your life matters. If you want to make a change and start living a better life, to rise to a higher version of yourself, you’ve got to start talking about yourself and your life as if you’re already there. You don’t heal your depression by talking to yourself like you’re a piece of crap. You’re not going to finally finish that project by shaming yourself about not having...2022-08-1822 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset31: How to Love Difficult People (learning to love others right where they are).Sometimes loving others can be hard. Okay, a lot of the time it might be hard. But luckily, we can choose to let it be easy. It may be tempting to label others as “difficult to love,” but that only makes them difficult for us to love. Instead, we can choose label ourselves as “always loving," and make everyone easy to love simply because we've made that our nature. In this episode we're chatting about loving others just as they are, not withholding love from them on any certain terms, and faithfully growing our capacity to lov...2022-08-1620 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset30: How to Keep Your Cool When Your Kids Are Annoying You.The real question here is: How do we stop being so triggered by our kids’ annoying behaviors. When we learn to remain calm and untriggered by our kid’s fits, we can hold our boundaries and stick to a consistent model of parenting. When we give in to the tantrums we teach our kids that if they push us far enough, we’ll give in. Are you ready to take the steps to set the right tone for your family? You’re the gatekeeper, you decide the energy of your home. When someone in the family g...2022-08-1126 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset29: Make Chores Easier by Shifting the Way You Think About ThemIf you think it’s gonna suck, it’s probably gonna suck. The more you assign negative connotations to your house chores, the more you’re going to grow in hatred of them and continue to avoid them. This is something that’s been an ongoing challenge in my life, overcoming this hatred of cleaning and completing chores. “You don’t exist to serve your space, your space exists to serve you.” KC Davis | How To Keep House While Drowning If your home is your source of stress, rather than a refuge from the stress of...2022-08-0922 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset28: Setting Yourself Up For Success as a SAHMFirst off, let’s not confuse motherhood with house management. Managing the home is not exclusive to motherhood and vice versa, but most of us slay at home mamas do have that responsibility if running the whole home. As moms, we set the tone for the whole family. If Mom’s not happy, no one is going to be happy, that’s a simple fact of life. We don’t do it on purpose, but our energy affects those around us, we can’t help it. It’s so important to be proactive in taking care of yourself and in making pl...2022-08-0423 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset27: Facing the Fear of Moving Forward and Why You're Still Where You StartedI’ve been on this journey of spiritual, personal growth for a few years now. I’ve overcome mental illness, learned to live happily, and have made so much progress in how to keep house and home make in that time, but one thing I’ve been faced with time and time again is this one major roadblock: the fear of moving forward. I have my theories why these feelings bubble up and stop us from pursuing our best life possible. It’s uncomfortable to change. It’s new and it’s terrifying, even when it’s something real...2022-08-0230 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset26: Controlling Your Mommy-Rage and Learning to Respond to Your Kids Respectfully with Elizabeth AndreyevskiyMotherhood can be draining, no one expects you to have it all together. Through therapy, Elizabeth entered the world of gentle parenting with the goal of respect for your children. This is very different from the style of parenting her and I both grew up with - the spanking, the threatening of discipline, etc. We don't have to raise our voice to get our kids to listen. (no, really). In this episode, I am joined by Elizabeth, a motherhood-stress and emotion coach, and host of Emotionally Healthy Legacy Podcast. Elizabeth is a wife from Minnesota...2022-07-2834 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset25: What to do When Someone You Look up to Isn’t Living the Way You Want Them toHow we handle the mistakes of others says a lot about our character and personal development. I recently found out some news that someone I love and look up to had made some bad decisions and had a lot of people upset with her. This news was shaking me to my core in the beginning - but it’s turned into a great opportunity of growth and compassion for me. We can’t control other people. We can only control ourselves. One thing that I’ve come to realize is that everybody makes mistakes - nobody...2022-07-2720 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset24: Finding Encouragement to Show Up Fully When Your Marriage is in a Rough Patch with Emily Grace MillerMotherhood can be hard enough - when you throw in dealing with depression and a rocky marriage, it can feel near impossible to make the right choices and show up fully for your kids, let alone yourself. While a healthy marriage is the foundation for a happy family, sometimes we have to reframe what that means. A healthy marriage doesn’t always mean that you’re constantly in love with one another, always going on date nights, or even that you LIKE each other at the moment. A healthy marriage is sometimes simply that you’re unwilling to let...2022-07-2625 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset23: Simplifying Healthy Eating for the Whole Family with Danica MillsYou’re a busy mom just trying to do your best, but every time dinner roles around you can’t help but either feel exhausted from cooking that Pinterest-worthy dinner, or you’re feeling that tinge of guilt that you didn’t try harder to make sure your whole family is getting every nutrient on their plate. What is healthy eating anyway? Is it Keto, Paleo, Vegan, Carnivore, Organic, Whole 30, Veggies Most, what is “Clean eating?” What nutritionist Danica Mills is here to share with us today might just ease that meal time stress you’re feeling. You see, “healt...2022-07-2121 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset22: How to Start Being Happier (when you’ve been stuck in your unhealthy cycles for too long)If you’ve been around here for a hot minute, you’ve heard me talk a lot about the “old me.” She was not happy. The old me was always falling for cognitive distortions and believing the worst about myself. I put up a lot of walls around me and didn’t let a lot of people in or show them the real me at all - so when someone tells me they enjoy my company, they actually like me, it always blows me away - sometimes it still takes me off guard. I used to be a bit of a jerk - l...2022-07-2031 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset21: Break Out of the Hot Mess Hustle Culture & Create Moments of Rest in Motherhood w/ Alyssa WolfeFinding quiet time throughout your day is a luxury and those moments are few and far between for us moms. That's why we have to MAKE our own quiet time a priority - whatever it takes. We need the time to let our minds wander, to dream a little, and to allow our bodies to calm down (hello lower cortisol levels). As moms we tend to fall for this cognitive distortion that we need to be go-go-go all the time, on 24/7 with no breaks. Let’s dismantle that belief. Alyssa Wolfe of Your Unbusy Life is here to talk to us...2022-07-1916 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset20: Making Time for Intimacy in Your Marriage Without it Feeling Like a Chore with Amanda AmmonsWhat’s the marker of a happy, healthy marriage? An active sex life. In the beginning, we didn’t even have to TRY to make time for it, it just happened - all the time. Then work and kids and home care and life all start to happen around us and somehow this once incredible piece of our lives gets shoved in a closet. Sex is the most amazing experience when it’s done right - not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. To become so vulnerable with your partner and let them exchange energy with you in such an int...2022-07-1418 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset19: The Only Morning Routine You Need to Have a Really Really Ridiculously Good DayI have been asked so many times what my morning routine is - I’m opening up about that here in this episode. I’ve tried all the magical, miracle morning routines for the most successful day possible, and I didn’t like them. I don’t enjoy waking up to a checklist of things someone else says I should do. It’s not fun for me, it’s not authentic to me. In short, I wake up and just do the thing that feels good for me. The morning is when you set the tone for the day. The...2022-07-1316 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset18: Striving for a Self Care Lifestyle in any Season of Motherhood with Sara MillerLet me make this clear: You are worthy of your own time. You are worthy of your own money. You are worthy of your own health. You are worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy. As our flight attendants always remind us: we must secure our own oxygen masks first, before assisting our children. This is so we don’t lose so much oxygen that we are incapable of securing their masks properly. In our everyday life, it’s important to care for ourselves first, so we are mentally and physically able to care for our children. How can we expe...2022-07-1221 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset17: Expert Advice on Getting Healthy - When You're Already Overwhelmed - with Kelsey BryantAre you trying to figure out how to start living a healthy lifestyle without getting overwhelmed and losing motivation, again? Kelsey Bryant is here with us today to give us her wealth of wisdom in making fitness and a healthy lifestyle easy and doable for the busy mama. If you're a busy mama like me who's desperate to slow down her life - your physical health and fitness can often fall through the cracks. Whether it's because the whole thing seems to get complicated real quick, or that simply beginning feels like a new stress being added...2022-07-0720 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset16: Letting Go of What's Not For You to Find the Joy and Peace That Comes From Quitting.Here’s what happens when you give up something that’s not for you anymore - you create space for growth. When I quit teaching the mini dance team, it allowed another mom at the studio to step up and take over. I’ve loved watching her blossom and bloom into the instructor she’s become - and today, she owns her own dance studio! All because I stepped out of the way, handed over the baton, and created space for her to grow in my place. When you feel pulled to leave, when it’s not aligned an...2022-07-0622 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset15: It Takes a Village... Here's how to start getting the help you need with Elizabeth of Emotionally Healthy Legacy.Today we are chatting with Elizabeth, Stress Coach for Moms and host of Emotionally Healthy Legacy podcast. In this episode we talked about: The cause and effects of stress. Choosing to live unstressed and seek peace in motherhood. Making life as easy as possible - letting go of control over doing everything yourself and using Instacart or grocery pick up services. You are the CEO of your home - does a CEO do it all themselves? Or do they bring on more help to grow and make a greater i...2022-07-0529 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset14: 3 Little Ways You Can Be a Better Mom (even though you know you’re already the best).It's funny you're here to read this, because you're already the best mom for your children. You were picked out from any woman across all time and space to be the mother to your children. You know better than anyone else how to be the mother to those kids of yours. That knowing might just be buried under a pile of crappy parenting advice and unrealistic home care expectations. When you keep your focus where it belongs, everything else falls into place. Lead with your heart more than your brain. Seek God first and the rest figures itself out. Being...2022-06-3016 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset13: Only You Get to Decide Who You Are (breaking free from the labels you’ve been given).No one else gets to decide who you are. They have no authority to decide your identity, no place t cast judgement and what they believe about you is simply none of your business. What others think has no power over you, thoughts are just ideas and only carry what meaning you put on them. I always hated being labeled lazy or cold hearted - those didn't feel true to me, but they matched my behaviors, so I believed them... I believed I hated people and was better off alone because I was an introvert. I believed I was cold...2022-06-2924 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset12: Loving Yourself Right Where You Are (and embracing the pieces you've been told were broken).The main thing I've learned from blogging and starting an online business, letting myself be visible, you have to accept yourself as you truly are. No more building walls, no more masking, no more becoming who you feel you need to be fine tuned to who you're talking to. As a Peacemaker - Type 9 Enneagram, I don't like to ruffle feathers, disagree openly, or cause any kind of stress or conflict to anyone. But that's not authentic. It feels like you're tailoring the conversation to who you're with, but often it's actually you editing yourself and hiding...2022-06-2821 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset11: Conquer Stress By Overcoming Negative ThinkingI recently heard the phrase: Stress is the new cigarette. It took me a minute to really process that. Stress looks so cool. To hustle and grind and do all the things, all the time. To be "that mom" who's always got it all going on. It looks cool, until you're trying to do it all and you realize how gross it makes you feel to have no time to yourself, no white space, no quiet moments to actually connect with our kids. Stress looks cool on the outside, until you learn what it's doing...2022-06-2324 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset10: How I Balance Motherhood and Mental Health Without Forgetting All The ThingsEveryday Joy Planner: This is how I organize everything in my mind and in my life. If you're like me, you maybe have ADHD or Mom-Brain and you're overwhelmed and sleep deprived. You might feel like your brain is a bowl of spaghetti. So how do you organize everything in your frazzled mom brain? I use a simple 3 point system to juggle appointments, marriage, motherhood, friendships, budget, household tasks, business, blog, podcast, and mental health! I struggled with depression and anxiety for a very long time - now I keep them in check by constantly...2022-06-2225 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset9: You Can Continue to Hurt or You Can Choose to Grow (a lesson learned from my cat).Sometimes the days we expect to be the most joyful, end up being the most painful. The day this podcast launched, our family cat passed away. He'd been sick for quite awhile with what we thought was just an upper respiratory infection that antibiotics were almost working to clear, but it turned out to be Feline Viral Leukemia that was causing him to get sick repeatedly. It didn't come as a surprise when he went, but how much it hurt to lose him was still a shocking amount. When I found him gone, I cried. I realized I...2022-06-2114 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset8: The Two Most Helpful Habits of Loving Relationships.Some might say the most important factors in a healthy relationship are honesty and trust, but I'd challenge that and say the two most important habits in a healthy relationship are mindfulness and communication. Mindfulness, put very simply, is paying attention. This can be paying attention to yourself and your own needs, thoughts, feelings, wants. And it can be paying attention to others, their needs, thoughts, feelings, desires. One key part of mindfulness, paying attention to where people are coming from in their actions, is giving grace in those actions. We have this awful habit of distracting o...2022-06-1615 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset7: Finding Peace By Creating Happy Spaces in Your Home (and it's easier than you think!)At some point, you will be ready to make your home a priority. Mental health and family relationship should always be healthy before you shift focus to your home - seriously, just avoid rotting food in the kitchen, keep it clean enough to avoid rodent or pest problems, and focus on your mental well being and relationships FIRST! I spent 2 years fiercely advocating for my mental health and helping others to apply the top techniques for mental wellness into their everyday life. This next chapter in my personal life will begin to shift some focus onto getting my home in...2022-06-1518 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset6: How I Overcame The Depths of Depression and Became "The Happy Mom"Last June was the last time I hit a major depressive episode. I was really ready to leave it all behind and take the express ticket out…Honestly, I chose not to mainly because I don’t trust anyone else to raise my kids. I want to be here for them and to raise them in a home that they feel okay to feel. As a boy mom its really important for me to allow them to express their emotions, to let them cry and to feel supported in that rather than shamed. The only time I won’...2022-06-1427 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset5: Embracing Ease Without Guilt (because mom-life doesn't have to be THAT hard)Motherhood is hard, but it's only as hard as we let it be. Watching our kids struggle, learn the hard way, or be in pain should be the hard parts. The daily duties of maintaining your home, entertaining your children, and feeding your family should not be the hard parts of "motherhood." You do not have to overcomplicate your dinner plans. It's OKAY to prep food ahead of time, to take shortcuts, or even have dinner cooked by someone else. Your worth is not tied to the level of skill and effort put into dinner each night. L...2022-06-1022 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset4: How to Love the Man You Married (without him having to change himself first)What do you do when that spark in your marriage has fizzled? You light that candle yourself. Sometimes healing happens when we realize we're the ones extinguishing the flames of our own happiness. You're responsible for your own self, friend. Often times we get into thought patterns that are not helpful. We notice that our husband isn't going out of his way to romance us and we think that's a sign he doesn't love us, instead of trying to understand him. My husband spends most of his day at work, this means his mind is filled with...2022-06-0914 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset3: Getting Into The Healing Power of Nature (simple techniques to keep you grounded and centered)Hey friend, when life starts to feel heavy and complicated, my favorite place to get grounded and centered is outside. Nature is a great source of calm and wisdom. There's a reason we are so drawn to it as children. Some tips to get grounded with nature: Get close to the soil, put your feet in the dirt and let those ions neutralize! Take a long, hot shower for some hydrotherapy and to quantum leap (it's not as woo woo as it sounds, it's actually a powerful mind trick). L...2022-06-0820 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset2: Showing up for Your Kids Through Burn-Out (when you can barely show up for yourself)Surviving burnout and depressive episodes isn't easy, but it's possible and it's worth it. In today's episode I'm sharing how I get through the rough patches in motherhood. For starters, let it be easy. Drop the guilt over lowering your expectations and conserve your energy so you can focus on what's really important in your life. Prioritize connection with your kids during this time. So what if laundry is piled in the kitchen sink and the dishes are on fire. Focus on family and love when you're totally over being overwhelmed. Watch Disney mov...2022-06-0712 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset1: The Simple Shift That Can Change Everything in Your Life (without actually changing anything about your life)Yes, it's me Brittni Clarkson from Meant to Bloom - just podcasting under a new name, with a more solid foundation and certain direction. I'm so glad you're here! Why did I choose to rename my show? Because Meant to Bloom doesn't need my face on it anymore - Meant to Bloom is going in a new direction and will involve maybe a dozen or more authors and creators working to empower and encourage women. Why did I choose I Get To? Because it's the first time I ever knowingly made a mindset shift for th...2022-06-0619 min

Meant to Bloom: personal growth for hot mess moms through habits and mindset0: The IntroductionThey keep telling us to “Enjoy it while they’re young..” But our days are filled with chaos, and stress, and cooking, and endless laundry piles…. Where’s the time to enjoy it? Yeah, that’s what I always thought too. There’s so much I HAVE to do, when do I find time for peace and joy and happiness, I barely have time to sleep… Mama, it’s time for a shift. You can be a HAPPY MOM - if I can, you can, trust me. 2022-05-1101 min

Grace Momma Grace41. Bringing JOY to Motherhood with Brittni ClarksonIn everyday motherhood, it is VERY common to feel sad, stuck, down, depressed, lonely, afraid, and even angry. But there is a way out. In this episode, Brynne interviews guest Brittni Clarkson who shares her passion for finding joy in motherhood via her social media and her blog! Brittni shares 7 things (that all start with S) to help us find joy in motherhood each and everyday. Listen up! This one will make you HAPPY! 2021-07-1947 min