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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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00:55:20

Child Play Troubles, Defiant Kids, and Our Easy...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/02/22

In this rapid fire listener question episode, we address what to do when your kids have playmates who play in ways that you don’t approve of. We also delve into some options you have when your child seems to want to do everything you DON’T want him or her to do while still maintaining connection. We also share the specific affirmations we do with our children each day. Related Episodes Patience With Aggressive Behavior, Friendships in Motherhood, and Making Peace With Your Inner Landscape Using Play

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00:47:13

How To Tame Your Parenting Triggers with Jen Lumalan...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/02/15

Being reactive and angry in our parenting is a feeling that weighs on many of us. There are times when your child does things that all children do like: expressing uncomfortable emotions, making big messes, wasting food, screaming/shouting LOUDLY, stalling endlessly while getting dressed, leaving the house, or getting ready for bed...and we lose our cool. As we embark on this journey of authenticity and finding ourselves inside parenting, the anxiety of failing to respond in a way that is honoring

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00:45:39

Recognizing Desire, Intimacy After Betrayal and...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/02/10

In this episode, we had the honor once again of discussing different aspects of intimacy with the incredible Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife. She uses her extensive knowledge and wisdom about the subject of sexuality to help us navigate many different situations, such as when partners differ greatly in their level of desire for each other, how to journey through betrayal trauma, and she even gives tips on how to have a healthy relationship with your own sexuality while you are single. Related

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01:02:33

Power to Motivate Yourself Using Gretchin Rubin's...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/02/01

How do you handle expectations? Are you a rule follower? A rule breaker? Do you do better when someone else expects you to do something, or are you motivated by your own expectations? We draw from Gretchin Rubin’s Four Tendencies and use that information to help understand yourself and what motivates you. As you discover this, it allows you the freedom to know how to get the things you want in life. You can learn to stop fighting your own nature and instead learn to learn what works. The book that

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00:50:56

Patience with Aggressive Behavior, Friendships in...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/01/25

We dive into a wide range of listener questions today! We start by exploring what the solitude of 2020 brought into our life, how to come to peace with our inner landscape and find connection where we can. We spend time on a deep dive into one of our most asked questions, dealing with our kids aggression and when they hurt other kids. We can remain calm, lean into emotions AND not become attached and let their emotions control ours. Our children's lives are intimately entwined in ours; this reveals

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00:36:58

Learning from Brave and Powerful Women and Seeing...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/01/18

Power is not finite, join us as we dismantle this perception with co-founder of Bravery Magazine Elyse Beard. In this episode she shares the stories of incredible women throughout history who have shown exceptional bravery, ingenuity, and intelligence. She offers tips to use the tapestry of history as a way to change the way we approach our own lives, and how to help our children face their own fears and follow their dreams. You can find more about the Bravery Magazine

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01:18:00

Using Play to Diffuse Power Struggles and Connect...

Mother Tongue ·

2021/01/11

This week we explore the ideas of Lawrence Cohen. We often think of play as a secondary, optional activity. For kids, exploring the world through play is part of their healthy development. We dive deep into the science of play and discuss how to harness it for powerful connection. Books that inspired us: Playful Parenting // Lawrence Cohen Raising Lions // Joe Newman Related Episodes: Authoritative Parenting / Arguably the most EFFECTIVE Parenting Style Make Your Morning Routine Happen! Finding

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00:38:50

Approaching the New Year Without Overwhelm

Mother Tongue ·

2021/01/04

There are so many jokes about New Year’s Resolutions. We have all seen how full gyms get for the first two weeks of January, only to empty again after that. So many of us choose goals and have big plans to revamp our lives on January first, only to make no lasting changes. In this episode, we share our personal approach to the new year, and how we look at it from a place without overwhelm. We use January as a time of self reflection, and save our accomplishment goal setting for spring time, when the

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00:49:23

Breaking Out of Generational Molds with Tessa...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/12/28

Most of us want to be respectful, gentle, loving parents. However, many parents are held back by the way they were raised. It can be difficult to break the mold of generations before you. In this episode, we talk about how to do just that—how to take unhealthy parenting habits we experienced as children and rewriting the script for our own parenting style. This includes getting new information, as well as being aware of the molds we have been operating with in order to be free of them. Books that

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01:03:45

Using Intuition to Guide New Year Preparation

Mother Tongue ·

2020/12/21

There are many voices competing for our attention. People we know, books we read, the news we listen to all are voices that fill our heads as we navigate what to do with our lives. In this episode, we explore how to create space in our lives for listening to our own intuition first, and how that serves us. We all have access to this incredible tool, and it is an eye opening experience to learn how to really tap into the power of intuition. We offer tips on how to cultivate and trust the intuitive

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00:43:10

Susan Stiffelman on Remaining Present While Parenting

Mother Tongue ·

2020/12/14

Children have the capacity to be our greatest teachers. They allow us the opportunity to truly look inside of ourselves when we are triggered, and wake up to our own nature. In this episode, Felica had the incredible opportunity of discussing this topic with parenting expert and author, Susan Stiffelman, MFT. She explains how we can use the practice of being present to truly use this journey we have as parents to truly evolve ourselves as we face the daunting task of raising humans to do the same

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00:43:16

Feeling Lost? HOW TO Cultivate Meaning in Our Lives

Mother Tongue ·

2020/12/07

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” Victor Frankl We all want to feel like our life has meaning. It is a deep human need that creates a void when our life feels like it lacks purpose. This desire for meaning crosses through every life station, regardless of economic status, life condition,

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00:56:36

Making Dinner Meaningful and Uncomplicated with...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/11/30

We all have to eat to survive--it’s part of life. Often, the task of feeding an entire family every single day is overwhelming. The sheer recurring quantity of the task can be daunting to the most ambitious of us, and yet, the task remains. How can we as parents create a dinner table that is both fulfilling for our families and doesn’t drain the life out of us as parents? There is so much fascinating research out there about how eating family dinner together helps predict positive outcomes in

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00:56:21

Teaching Our Daughters to Live Wholeheartedly

Mother Tongue ·

2020/11/23

Raising children in today’s society has lots of opportunities and challenges. In this episode, we explore the ones that are specific to raising girls. This is an exciting time to be a woman, and there are many things we can do as parents to help our girls truly embrace the gifts this time in history offers us while rejecting the limiting messages that are simultaneously given to girls. We address topics like body image, power, and joy. We all have such an incredible opportunity for influence for the

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00:48:09

Living Life Untamed and Releasing Others to do the...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/11/16

“Feelings are for feeling. All of them. Even the hard ones.” Glennon Doyle This is our 100th episode! In this landmark episode, we explore what it means to step into our own power. There are lots of things we are told as we grow throughout childhood and into adulthood. Many of those things are wonderful and they serve us in creating a life that is true and beautiful. However, there are also things that we learn that simply don’t serve us. One of the joyful realities of adulthood is that we actually

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00:35:43

How to Own Your Desires & the Art of Intimacy with...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/11/09

Physical intimacy is an important aspect of our lives, and yet it is also an area that for many people, can be a space that is complicated, difficult, and even emotionally or physically unpleasant. In this episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, a relationship and sexuality educator and coach, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, with a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology. In this conversation, we discussed this important topic and specifically address how you as a woman

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00:50:31

Prepping Kids for New Babies, Earning vs. Rewarding,...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/11/02

So many of the life hacks that we use in our lives every day to make it easier came from other people sharing them. In this episode, we answer several listener questions, including our very favorite life hacks that are saving us right now, from laundry and cleaning life savers to hair and easy morning breakfast tricks. We also address issues about helping toddlers adapt to quiet time (one of our most frequent questions asked), preparing your older children to welcome a new baby into the family, and

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00:48:21

Seeing Ourselves Clearly in the Role of Mother

Mother Tongue ·

2020/10/26

Society has often put the role of motherhood either on a pedestal or in a cage, and both are small spaces from which to thrive. Few roles combine such responsibility and power with such possibility for shame and unhelpful pressure. Because of this, the topic of seeing our own role as mother clearly and with curiosity is an important one. Something that every single one of us have in common is the fact that we have a mother. Some of us know our mothers, while some of us have never met her. Our

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00:46:39

Creating Roots Through Family Traditions (Entitlement...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/10/19

The holiday season can feel overwhelming because we feel the need to do everything to make them exciting and special. However, the beauty of having our own families is that we can intentionally choose the holiday activities that serve us and let go of the ones that don’t. The magic of family traditions is that they help our children feel a sense of belonging and gives them roots, which helps them identify with the connection of the family instead of peer groups and can help with their behavior. In

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01:22:21

How Light Affects Our Sleep, Fertility, Our Child’s...

Mother Tongue ·

2020/10/12

A good night’s sleep is an elusive goal we simply dream about but rarely attain. We all know the benefits of quality sleep for us and our children, but we find ourselves at a loss for how to improve it. In this episode, we have a fascinating conversation with Andy Mant, founder of Blublox glasses. He shares loads of helpful research regarding how the light we expose ourselves to throughout the day and especially in the hours after the sun goes down impacts our sleep quality and overall health,

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