How To Avoid Becoming Your Mother

Brett has spent her career in foreign policy — shaping strategy, advising governments, moving pieces on a board whose outcomes she may never live to fully see. It's meaningful work. It just never feels finished. So she's started thinking about a different kind of problem: the kin ...  Show more

Living with a cat often feels like a game of high-stakes interpretation, especially when an 18-pound Maine Coon is performing a 4:30 AM tap dance on your head. Today on How To!, Mike Pesca is joined by cat owner Steve, who shares the reality of navigating the vocal demands of his ...  Show more

Do you know mom guilt – the uninvited guest who overstays her welcome, has no boundaries, and drives you freaking crazy? This week on the Mama Work It podcast, I’m diving deep into ways to minimize that mom guilt in your life, however you might be feeling it. Tune in to hear thre ...  Show more

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned since becoming a mother is there’s no perfect way to parent. No matter your role - step parent, adopted parent, parent or otherwise. There’s no such thing as ‘perfect’. In fact you can delete that word from your vocabulary right now. Becomi ...  Show more

The transition to stay-at-home mom can be full of challenges. Whether it's struggling with sleep, purpose, keeping up the house, parenting, or marriage, there's an entirely new set of problems that come with this transition. In this podcast, I share my favorite tips for stay-at-h ...  Show more

Is mom still doing your laundry!? In episode 91 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the twisty world of mommy issues, from the OG mother Mary to today’s seducing MILFs. They look into psychonalytic theories of the mom-child bond, paying close attention to ways these theories ...