Motherhood can get the best of us. While it can be very rewarding, it can also have us feel our FULL range of emotions, including anger and rage.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Alison Ryan.

Alison is a Mama Mentor and Personal Coach who supports other moms heal rage and anger with her 1:1 Coaching. She is known to help others find their power and take action so they can live a life that feels good to them.

In this episode Alison and I talk about: 

-Why it's important to love yourself most

-How to allow yourself grace during periods of anger and rage

-Ways to check in with yourself daily to make sure you are being taken care of

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

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Has motherhood been nothing but overwhelm and burnout for you?

Listen to learn what small changes you can make so you can get some of your time and energy back!

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Marisa Lonic from Mama Work It.

Marisa Lonic is a keynote speaker, life & business coach, 3x author, top-rated podcast host and the founder of Mama Work It. She helps busy women juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life go from overwhelmed to empowered. When she’s not helping moms slay the day, you can find her cooking, running (ok fine - walking/running), and hanging out with the five amazing guys she calls family.

In this interview, Marisa shares:

• What time momagement is
• A perspective shift on time
• Multitasking tips

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

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We're gonna be talking about how self-care really impacts your marriage. 

Every single relationship if I'm being honest. If you don't know, I help unhappy moms who feel lost in their marriage to be happy again, and a lot of times, we get to that place of feeling lost, because we're no longer getting our needs met anymore. If you have that go-to coping mechanism of stepping into a victim mentality, you might ask yourself, why aren't they giving me what I need anymore? Why did they stop? What happened here? And what we really should be asking? On top of that question is, what have I done? To get us here? Not from a place of blame, but from a place of awareness? What part did I play? To get us to where we are right now? Because it takes both of you to get there. 

We tend to feel lost in our marriage. 

Because our partner stopped doing something, and why did they stop doing that thing, because we stopped being the person that they married. Right? We are all...

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Why is marriage so hard when you have kids? 

Relationships are hard in general. We're all walking around with all these different ideas of what it takes to be in a relationship, what we think is normal, and what we think is healthy. Sometimes we think both are the same. We grew up with our parent's marriage being the prime example of what we think it means to be in a relationship. How do they love each other? How do they show that? How affectionate were they with each other? How do they communicate with each other? How do they handle conflict? How do they prioritize each other? How did they communicate with you? How did they handle conflict with you? How did they react to you when you were expressing your emotions? Like when you were crying a lot, when you were angry, or when you were frustrated? What about when you were happy? Were you even allowed to express your emotions outside of happiness? Personally, my parents were not comfortable with emotions....