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Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms10. Perimenopause and HS moms - Why Being a Mom Feels Different NowPerimenopause doesn’t just bring hot flashes, it can quietly reshape everything about how you show up as a mom, partner, and person. And for highly sensitive moms, the emotional intensity, brain fog, and shifting energy levels can feel especially overwhelming.In this honest, empowering conversation, Ashley Basilio, midlife wellness advocate, talks with Adrienne and Leah about her own perimenopause journey and how it collided with parenting teens, burnout, and identity shifts. As a certified menopause health coach and founder of the Strong Her Together community, Ashley blends science, warmth, and lived experience to help women understand wh...
2026-02-1848 min
Postpartum Better | Postpartum Recovery, Sleep Support, Breastfeeding, FTM, Postpartum Depression, Mom Guilt, Identity132. Are Your "People-Pleasing" Habits Sabotaging Your Postpartum? with Leah Andreoni, MA, LMFT, PMH-CSend us a textIf you’ve always been the “easygoing one,” the helper, the yes-girl… postpartum can feel like the moment where that identity starts to crack. Suddenly, everyone has opinions. Everyone wants time. And you’re left managing exhaustion, recovery, emotions, and a brand-new mental load—while still worrying about disappointing others.In this episode of Postpartum Better, Chelsea Barbine is joined by perinatal therapist and mom of 2 Leah Andreoni, MA, LMFT, PMH-C - to discuss why boundaries aren’t selfish postpartum—they’re protective, and why people-pleasing can quietly sabotage yo...
2026-02-0737 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms9. Anxiety in HS moms - Tools for Relief and LIVE Hypnosis session!Anxiety is incredibly common for highly sensitive moms, especially after becoming a parent. In this episode, Adrienne and Leah have an honest, grounded conversation about how anxiety actually shows up in sensitive motherhood and why parenting can intensify it so much.They explore how anxiety often lives in the body, not just the mind, and how it can look like hypervigilance, overthinking, people pleasing, perfectionism, difficulty resting, and feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions. They also talk about how overstimulation, lack of solitude, and constant emotional attunement to kids can keep sensitive moms stuck in survival mo...
2026-02-0457 min
StrongHER VoicesFrom Burnout to Balance: How to Stop Over-Giving and Start Living
If you’ve spent years being the one who shows up, supports everyone else, and keeps the peace — but lately, it’s all starting to feel too much — this episode is your reminder that you are not alone, and it’s okay to start putting yourself first.
In this conversation, Ashley sits down with licensed perinatal therapist Leah Andreoni, founder of Rising Sun Therapy, to explore why people-pleasing patterns hit a breaking point in midlife — and how women can reclaim their time, energy, and sense of self with clarity and compassion.
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2026-02-0243 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms8. Mom Rage: A Message, Not a Meltdown with Nicole McNelisHave you ever found yourself snapping at your kids and then feeling awful about it afterward? You’re not alone.In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, we talk with perinatal mental health therapist and researcher Nicole McNellis about mom rage — what it is, why it happens, and why it doesn’t mean you’re a bad mom.We explore how overwhelm, resentment, unrealistic expectations, and nervous system overload can build up and spill over, especially for sensitive, deeply caring moms. You’ll also learn simple ways to understand what your anger is trying...
2026-01-2152 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms7. ADHD vs Highly Sensitive, What's the Difference? with therapist Avery WasmanskiWhat if the overwhelm you’ve always blamed on anxiety or “being too sensitive” is actually ADHD… or both?In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, Adrienne Bishop and Leah Andeoni sit down with licensed, trauma-informed therapist Avery Wasmanski to unpack the complex and often confusing overlap between high sensitivity, ADHD, anxiety, and trauma in motherhood. With both professional expertise and lived experience as a mom with ADHD, Avery helps us explore why so many women are diagnosed late (or not at all), how ADHD shows up differently in moms, and why e...
2026-01-0744 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms6. Positive Discipline - the parenting style that actually WORKS for your highly sensitive childConnection Before Correction - GET YOUR FREE POSITIVE DISCIPLINE CHEAT SHEET HERE!Parenting a highly sensitive child while being a sensitive parent yourself? We see you. In this episode, Leah and Adrienne dive deep into how Positive Discipline can transform your parenting journey — especially when traditional methods just don’t work.What You’ll Hear:Why sticker charts, timeouts, and yelling backfire with sensitive kidsWhat makes highly sensitive kids tick (hint: their nervous systems are wired for depth)Real-life examples of how connection calms the chaosTools you can use TODAY to build cooperation without shame
2025-12-1054 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms5. Why Your Kid Freaks Out Over Tags and You Hate Perfume: How Physical Sensitivity Impacts Moms & KidsLeah and I are back this week for podcast Episode 5: Why Your Kid Freaks Out Over Tags and You Hate Perfume: How Physical Sensitivity Impacts Moms & Kids. We’re diving into something most people have never heard of: the 8 sensory systems that shape how highly sensitive kids (and their moms!) experience the world (and cause meltdowns). If you’re parenting a highly sensitive child while being sensitive yourself, you know how overwhelming life can feel. This episode is your roadmap to understanding physical sensitivity and how it influences behavior, emotions, and even meltdowns.When...
2025-11-261h 00Real Parenting For Sensitive Moms4. Postpartum for the Highly Sensitive Mom: When it’s Harder than you ExpectThe postpartum period is one of the most transformational times in a woman’s life. She is changing from the inside out - from brain changes to cellular changes and it can be very overwhelming for the sensitive mom. During pregnancy and after giving birth, drastic hormonal shifts occur and you are expected to manage all of this with elegance, grace, looking good and enjoying every moment. That is not the reality for most moms, and these expectations can cause a host of problems during motherhood, including postpartum disorders.In this episode, we explore how highl...
2025-11-1238 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms3. Motivating Your Child the Way They’re Wired: Using the 4 TemperamentsHow many of us have struggled to motivate our kids to cooperate? Or just get stuff done?In this episode of Real Parenting for the Sensitive Mom, Leah and Adrienne explore how understanding your child’s temperament can transform the way you motivate them. Drawing from Kathleen Edelman’s book A Grown-Up’s Guide to Your Kids’ Wiring, they break down the four temperaments—Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, and Melancholic—and how each one responds to different types of encouragement, expectations, and communication.Parenting is 80% trying to get your kids to do things—and it’s hard. But...
2025-10-2943 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms2. Real Self-Care for HS Moms: Not Just Another Thing on Your To-Do ListAre you struggling to find time for self care? Does it feel like just one more thing on your to-do list that you're failing at?In this episode, Adrienne and Leah explore what self-care really looks like for highly sensitive moms. From sensory-friendly environments to emotional wellness and creative outlets, they offer practical, bite-sized strategies to help you feel more grounded, supported, and seen. This isn’t about adding more to your plate—it’s about shifting how you care for yourself in a way that honors your sensitivity.Key TakeawaysSelf-care is a l...
2025-10-1537 minReal Parenting For Sensitive Moms1. What it means to be a Highly Sensitive Mom and Why it is Important to KnowDo you feel overwhelmed as a mom more than others? Are you anxious about your parenting? Do you feel your kids feelings and want to fix them to feel better? You may be highly sensitive. In this episode, Adrienne Bishop and Leah Andreoni explore what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and why understanding this trait is crucial for moms and their children. Adrienne, a parenting coach and integrative hypnotist, shares her personal journey as a sensitive mom raising three sensitive kids. Leah, a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist and Family Therapist, brings her c...
2025-10-0141 min
MilesFromHerView32- Permission to Pause: Self-Care Strategies for Moms Who Do It AllSend us a textIn this episode, Leah Andreoni discusses her journey from community mental health to opening her own practice called Rise and Sun Therapy, focusing on mental health and wellness for women, specifically new moms. Leah and the host delve into the challenges of transitioning into motherhood, the importance of self-care, managing societal expectations, and finding a support system. They highlight the critical role of values and self-compassion in parenting and share practical tips for taking time for oneself amidst the demands of motherhood.How to connect with Leah: Instagram.com/leahandreoni
2024-12-0647 min
Postpartum Better | Postpartum Recovery, Sleep Support, Breastfeeding, FTM, Postpartum Depression, Mom Guilt, Identity30. Maternal Mental Health Series: Where is the Gap? with Leah Andreoni, MA, LMFT, PMH-CSend us a textWhile we are beginning to see a generational shift, the topic of mental health, specifically in the perinatal period, is traditionally taboo. Perhaps that’s relative to societal norms, access to support, or quite frankly the cultural structures in general. Nonetheless, statistically speaking women have never been more sick, overwhelmed, depleted, or isolated than ever before. In effort to increase awareness and support for those struggling through the transition to life after birth, we are releasing a special series of stories from fellow mamas about their experience with per...
2024-04-2756 min