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Mother Tongue

Her Mother Tongue explores everyday beauty and pain with feminine insights into healing. It is also a place to feel human and remember who we are in the body. I love you! hermothertongue.substack.com

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4:37

How I learned to "O"

Mother Tongue ·

2026/04/01

This is not click bait.Honestly, I am shocked to find out so many women have not experienced orgasm. It makes me feel tingly between my legs to even say the word. An orgasm is one of my favorite feelings next kissing baby cheeks, the first bite of nigiri or balancing a silky cappuccino out to a sunlit table.I have always been sexually curious, erotic. I wondered what it meant to be a woman. To be alive. I’d sip Shirley temples and eat buckets of clams at the restaurant my mom worked at while she

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18:05

Regrets, Breast Implants

Mother Tongue ·

2026/03/25

I am finally back. It has been a long year full of learning and I am excited to share it with you. To kick us off, as promised and promised, I finally gather the courage to express my feelings about plastic surgery and my sub fascial breast augmentation. I hope that what I learned can guide you if you are making a similar choice or battling some of the same questions in your head. I dive into my journey from perky boobs of my youth through nursing, losing volume, and wanting to feel more at home in

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12:41

Considering the Mental Load

Mother Tongue ·

2026/01/08

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32:48

Why we don’t want sex

Mother Tongue ·

2025/11/06

Most relationships aren’t starved for sex—they’re starved for attunement. In this kickoff, we unpack why “I don’t want sex” often means “I don’t feel safely, slowly, specifically known.” The episode opens with a real call from a friend questioning divorce, then moves through safety rituals, curiosity as foreplay, and “mother-grade noticing” you can practice tonight. “I’m not into sex” often means: I don’t feel safe, seen, or specifically known. We address why we need to connect first and why it’s

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3:44

When you feel like you're dying

Mother Tongue ·

2025/11/04

Felicia traces the quiet deaths we live through—leaving a home, shedding an identity, choosing motherhood and self at once. From fallen leaves to umbilical cords, she explores how change asks us to release control, face pain, and tell the truth about who we are becoming.Key Themes:Micro-deaths: identity, place, and rolesChange as nature’s law (trees, decomposition, renewal)The umbilical cord as a metaphor for attachment and releasePain as a necessary passage—not a bypassable stepChrist as exemplar

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4:29

Mother for hire

Mother Tongue ·

2025/11/04

Felicia explores the everyday altar of motherhood—where care becomes love when it’s shared, not hoarded. Through a Dark Goddess lens (Dancing in the Flames), she reframes “self-sacrifice” as a broken cauldron and argues for boundaries, shared labor, and the courage to receive as prerequisites for giving. Pop-culture moments (a “Gatsby gala,” The Hunger Games, and “They were careless people”) help teach our kids what not to emulate—and what to build instead.What you’ll hear:Children as initiations,

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5:27

Why I Left

Mother Tongue ·

2025/11/01

Felicia reflects on the question, “Why did you get divorced?” and traces an answer through embodied pleasure, the deadness she refused, and the ways women’s sexuality is outsourced and commodified. An intimate meditation on erotic aliveness, consent, and coming home to the Divinity inside our cells.Key TakeawaysSelf-pleasure can be a practice of presence, not performance.Women’s sexuality is often commodified and policed; liberation must be self-owned, not traded.Erotic aliveness counters numbness

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5:00

Devastating Unknowing

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/31

Halloween, divorce, and the everyday test of wills. In this tender solo, Felicia invites us into the messy middle—the school parade you weren’t ready for, the “you’re so strong” comments that land sideways, and the private moments where the storm threatens to rip you to pieces. This is an episode about soul-holding: tiny acts that keep us human when the to-do list stretches to infinity. Not a bypass. Not grit theatre. Practice.We talk about: letting pain move so it doesn’t poison you; why one small

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6:09

How I Dropped Purity Culture

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/30

Felicia traces a lineage of women who never rested grandmother, mother, herself—and the moment she burned down a “perfect” life to make space for truth. This is a tender, feral meditation on rest, eros, and the inner girl who only appears when she’s loved. A rebel’s theology of transformation, usable, embodied, a little dangerous.Episode Highlights The women who never sat down: inherited hustle, tender pride, and the cost of being “good.”The pedestal and the cage: how “perfect wife/mother” scripts

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4:08

Not an Up-There God

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/29

Today’s devotional wrestles with where—or if—God lives, and why the body was my first church. I talk about hiding from “knowing” with busy perfection, getting brought to my knees, and the strange alchemy where the pain of alignment expands our capacity for joy. If “up-there God” never worked for you, this one’s for you.TimestampsCoffee + confession: “I don’t believe in an up-there God.”The gendered God problem; why a half-God can’t hold a whole life The body as the beginning: tight, trapped,

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6:53

A Mother's Crashout

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/28

This episode traces how want eclipses love, why our nervous systems cling to the status quo, and what it looks like to re-center care—personally, politically, and on the block where we actually live.In this episodeThe “want machine” vs. the memory of loveNeed as interruption—and why that’s the pointMotherwork as a political ethic (remembering, soothing, staying)Homeostasis/allostasis 101: why change feels impossibleFrom dominance to care: reframing “strength”Micro-rituals for turning your sight

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8:15

Whitewashed Peace

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/27

If you prefer to read ….I watched a show last night…A tiny superhero girl crawls through a man’s brain. I can see the relief.But isn’t it connected? You’re like, whoa, that is MORBID. Maybe it is. Maybe it’s perfectly normal. That feeling, I mean.Bear with my ramblings. Normally they churn into something productive. I must have some audacity to think people want to hear anything I say. Is that at the heart of our suffering? Do we deem ourselves unworthy by default? Is that why we seek a

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8:45

Radical Sobriety

Mother Tongue ·

2025/10/23

A raw meditation on divorce, identity, and learning to meet life without anesthesia. Felicia traces the mapless terrain of choosing herself—moving from control to consent, from dissociation to the honeyed present, and from inherited scripts to a voice that won’t whisper anymore.Listen for“The journey home does not have a map”—why control promises safety but charges anxietyBody-led navigation: letting sensation guide when sight can’tRadical sobriety as telling the truth without numbingThich Nhat

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00:42:38

Lost? At sea? How I found myself

Mother Tongue ·

2025/09/17

** Audio quality is not up to par but I had to share this! **For years I practiced small, beautiful habits; sunlight on my face, moving my body, writing my thoughts, creating each day. I thought they were just ways to cope, but looking back I see they were the map.In this episode I talk about the undoing, the ripping away of my old life, and the unexpected truth waiting underneath: I wasn’t lost. I had been building myself all along.This is a story of alignment, daily rituals, and the surprising way

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00:19:29

279 // Are You Choosing Attachment Over Authenticity?

Mother Tongue ·

2024/03/20

Belonging is a deep instinctual need we have as a societal based species, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many of us as children (and adults) choose approval of other humans over authenticity and self trust inside of ourselves. Once we are aware of this instinct, analysis of our behavior choices become incredible interesting. We have now brought subconscious motives to the surface and can make decisions from a place of intention and consciousness, and this can prove to create beautiful

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00:39:32

278 // NO: a toddlers newly learned word

Mother Tongue ·

2024/03/12

Have you ever had the experience of when your toddler begins to say “no” to your request? It can be a puzzling experience, if not downright annoying. In this episode we share tips and tools for how to handle these situations in an unruffled way. Related Episodes EP 45 WHEN KIDS ARE SICK AND TODDLERS FEEL UNBEARABLE EP 53 TOP 10 PARENTING TIPS OF THE YEAR --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/findthemagic/message Support this podcast:

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00:07:49

Magic Moment // Trap of the "Too Good" Mother

Mother Tongue ·

2024/03/05

This episode Felica unpacks the tale of the too sweet mother and how we can learn to avoid extremes in our parenting from apathy to over parenting. We hope you enjoy! Remember to sign up ⁠here⁠ for our weekly newsletter where we send our favorite books, resources & parenting tips each week! To leave a review ⁠⁠⁠⁠Open Find the Magic in the podcast app ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Scroll to the bottom of the page Click on write a review Tap the stars to rate us and then write us some feedback:) Hit SEND ---

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00:39:21

276 // Self-Care: How To Do It Right

Mother Tongue ·

2024/02/27

Self-care seems to be a buzzword that gets swept up in consumerism and consequently the real meaning and purpose of self-care gets blurry. In today’s episode, we talk about what self-care really is and how intentionality, mindfulness, and boundaries can help us connect better to ourselves and others.Related episodes 257 // How to Handle Parent Guilt, Reinventing Ourselves, and Bossy Kids ⁠⁠How to: Create Pockets of Peace⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Running a Household Without Resentment⁠⁠ Sponsor: Freddie’s Laundry

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00:14:49

275 // Come What May–Be Present

Mother Tongue ·

2024/02/20

We all have times in our lives when we are apprehensive for what will come or even what's happening here and now, maybe we even dread it. In this episode, Katelin talks about the lessons she learned from a meaningful experience she had that can help us all as we encounter welcome and not-so-welcome events in our lives. Related episodes 223 // The Power of Being Present NOW Staying Open to The Present Remember to sign up ⁠here⁠ for our weekly newsletter where we send our favorite books,

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00:56:54

274 // Respect; it's mutual with Joe Newman Author of...

Mother Tongue ·

2024/02/13

It seems there is an epidemic of disrespect, whining, tantrums, talking back and in general, less respect than we saw in previous generations of kids. We are burned out as parents and we don't see a way out. This ends in being ultra strict or ultra passive because we just feel burnt out. In this episode Felica talks with Joe Newman about mutual recognition. This is the practice of back and forth respect that we should see to establish in our homes for a peaceful environment. Oftentimes the

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