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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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233 // Building Bridges Back Home to Ourselves with...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/05/16

We have all been here; there are times in life of discontent, resentment, perhaps even depression and often these coincide with a forgetting of ourselves. In this episode Felica interviews Tessa Brown, an artist and writer who focuses her work on womanhood and feminine energy and happens to be Felica's dear friend. They dive into reclaiming our younger selves and the decisions we made, wrestling with motherhood and its expectations as well as considering how we can build bridges to parts of our

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00:43:21

232 // When You Feel Like You're Drowning and...

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2023/05/09

In today’s episode we talk about how to deal with your children squabbling repeatedly and what to do when you feel like you just can’t get it together. Time Stamps 13:42 - How to help our kids have a positive sibling relationship 19:17 - Sibling situation is working out a social dynamic for the real world 21:50 - We learn in families how to read people 21:21 - Emotional Preparing 25:00 - Code words 27:30 - Beware of comparison 31:48 - I feel like I’m drowning 37:43 - Life is a

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00:55:11

231// Pt 2 Be the Calm Your Kids Need, Talking Less...

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2023/05/02

Some parenting wisdom feels true to our core; that is how we felt when we read much of the wisdom from Hunter Gather Parent by Michaleen Doucleff. Today we are sharing our favorite nuggets from the book pertaining to disciplining our kids. The advice is less prescriptive and more in line with what we know to be true as parents and humans. Our children are learning. Our role is to see them with love and respect and teach them the ways of their family tribe. We tackle how to direct our kids with less

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00:45:36

230 // Pt 1: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About...

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2023/04/25

"My kids never help", "It's like pulling teeth", "Our family life feels disconnected", "They don't care about me or what I do for them"; frustration over the lack of help in our homes from our children can send us into a spiral of hard days. The sentiment that "kids will be kids" and we need to cater to their whims can topple the structure of our families. In this episode, with the help of Hunter, Gather, Parent by Michaleen Doucleff, we are

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01:03:09

229 // Applying Our Four Pillars: Connection, Being...

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2023/04/18

229 // Applying Our Four Pillars: Connection, Being Present, Unconditional Love, & Healthy Boundaries When we first started Find the Magic, we realized through research and experience that many of the strategies and ideas we found in books boiled down to four pillars: Connection, Being Present, Unconditional Love, & Healthy Boundaries. We labeled these pillars because they figuratively hold up the loving, kind, respectful homes we are striving to cultivate. We have found that if you are

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00:36:58

228 // Making Friendships, Creating Community, and...

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2023/04/11

Friendships are exceedingly important, especially for mothers, in fact friendship is becoming a huge factor to over all health and wellness in a happy life. In this week's episode, we address listener questions and dive into how we can find and cultivate friendships and how that will look different in each stage of our lives as well as the age old question, should we have another baby? We dive into the intention to start from a whole place when making this decision and how Taralyn and Felica

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00:14:55

227 // Magic Moment: Recommitting to Your Phone Detox

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2023/04/04

This episode is the encouragement and reminder you need to recommit to living. Felica touches on the tenants of why we choose to be intentional with our screen use and find presence in our lived reality. She offers practical tips and how to's for detoxing from our devices as well as mindset reframes for why we are doing so. Happy detoxing! Related Episodes Finding Our Family Through Digital Minimalism Finding Solitude Through Digital Minimalism Saving Our Kids & Ourselves from Screens &

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00:41:26

226 // "What if Your Possessions Were the LEAST...

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2023/03/29

Are you carrying the weight of the things you own? Are you carrying the weight of your todo list? Do you think thoughts like "I should be able to keep up with the chores." or "There must be something wrong with me, everyone else is doing it!" Today's interview is with Leslie Alder, she guides caregivers through their clutter and chaos and out the other side to lighten the load that parenting and motherhood so often place on our shoulders. Felica and Leslie dive into the

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01:10:47

225 // Becoming Embodied, How Authentically Feeling...

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2023/03/21

Our bodies are intelligent. They are the home to our mind, spirit and psyche and are affected by our emotions whether we acknowledge them or not. Making the connection between our bodies and our emotions can lead us to a place of wellness and wholeness. This week we explore the mind body connection with the work of Dr. Gabor Mate (When the Body Says No). We also dive into how we can process those emotions and perhaps allow them to move through and heal us. Feeling pain is hard. There is no way

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00:14:40

224 // Overwhelmed by Defiant Behavior? The Amazing...

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2023/03/14

There is a lot of parenting advice out there and it can seem overwhelming to sift through. In this episode Felica breaks down her favorite steps to connecting to our child during recurrent misbehavior or unreasonable tantrums and a new way to see our kids during their hard moments. Related episodes: 207 // We Are All Good Inside: Parenting Without Using Shame and Repairing When We Do, with Dr. Becky Kennedy Part 1 210 // Navigating Tricky Transitions With Kids Ahead of Time and What to Do When

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00:18:47

223 // The Power of Being Present NOW

Mother Tongue ·

2023/03/07

When experiencing beautiful moments of joy, wonder, or gratitude it can be easy to want to cling on to those moments and not want to let go. On the flip side, when we experience difficult, dark, or heavy moments it's hard not to try to rush through, avoid, or numb out in order to escape the present. In this episode, Katelin explores what we gain when we truly embrace the present moment during both the highs and the lows. Time Stamps 1:11 - Reluctance to let time pass 3:00 - “We suffer when we

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00:36:23

222 // HOW TO Make Room for Negative Emotions and Why...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/02/28

We spend lots of time embracing positivity and focusing on ways to be positive, but where does that leave space for negative emotions? In this episode, we delve into why it's important to actually feel and process the difficult stuff, specifically the big emotion of anger. We know that flying off the handle in anger isn’t helpful, but neither is bottling it up. So where does that leave us? How can we process it in a healthy way? We use the work of Gabor Mate and Susan Cain to explore answers to this

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00:14:07

221 // Taralyn's Sleep Meditation

Mother Tongue ·

2023/02/21

This episode is a sleep meditation that Taralyn has guided many people through in person, and at their request, she has recorded it to use anytime you’d like. Simply play before bed and enjoy the relaxation:) Simply download the episode, and then you can listen to it even without wifi and on airplane mode. Related episodes: Who Needs Sleep? How To Make Our Rest A Little Better How Light Affects Our Sleep, Fertility, Our Child’s Behavior, and More with Andy Mant Our Daily Meditation: this is the

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00:28:53

220 // Who Needs Sleep? How to Make Our Rest a Little...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/02/21

Sleep. We all want good sleep. For many of us, it’s like this elusive prize we keep hoping to win but keep having it snatched away by little adorable people (our children:), or bad dreams, or night wakings, or panic attacks, or (insert your sleep woes here–thay can be endless). In this episode, Taralyn gives 5 specific tips for improving your sleep and explains the next episode, which is her guided meditation for sleep (you’re welcome all her yoga students who have been requesting it for

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00:17:15

Ep 219 // 3 Keys to Finding Home & Paradise Within

Mother Tongue ·

2023/02/14

Finding home - a quest we are all on. What does it really mean and can we arrive? In this weeks mini magic Felica shares the impetus behind their adventure to Florida and 3 keys to help us navigate finding home. Home doesn’t always mean a concrete place or a city; what she unpacks helps us see that home is our heart and headspace. Home is a settled feeling of acceptance of all the unknowing, the good and the bad. Time Stamps 2:20 - Logistics of moving 4:41 - What makes home, home? How do we feel

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01:01:03

218 // Juggling Everyone's Needs (including our own)...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/02/09

How do you make sure everyone’s needs are met when it doesn’t feel like there is enough time in the day? How can you better your relationship with your spouse or partner when also trying to run a household and life together? What do you do when your kid starts saying things you don’t want them to say? In this episode, we dive into some of our recent listener questions and aim to help you with concrete tips and ideas to remedy these common household concerns. Books Mentioned Playful Parenting //

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00:29:11

217 // Finding Tranquility in Our Family Schedules...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/01/31

This episode covers tips of how to manage your time with intentionality and mindfulness. Felica interviews Laura VanderKam, author of Tranquility by Tuesday, and explores ways that we can get the most out of our time. She covers some ideas around how to avoid mindlessness in our schedules, bringing intention to our daily plans, and tips to help us feel less frazzled when it comes to using our time well. Learn more about how to manage your time better at Laura Vanderkam’s website and

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00:59:41

216 // What Resentment Reveals & Understanding Envy

Mother Tongue ·

2023/01/24

We all know that we don’t love feeling jealous, but do we know the difference between jealous and envy? When we feel them, where do we go from there? What about when we feel resentful of someone? Where does this emotion come from and who is responsible for it? In this episode, we deep dive into these emotions using Brene Brown’s work as a guideline. Resentment is in the envy family, along with a host of other unpleasant emotions. We give some ideas on how to process these difficult feelings. Time

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00:55:12

215// Why We Get Triggered by Our Kids (& How To Do...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/01/17

Parenting is overwhelming and unpredictable. Even in the best of times we can find ourselves reacting instead of responding to our kid's big emotions or perceived disobedience. We know that we are in charge of our internal landscape but often that feels much easier said than executed. Today Felica chats with host of Your Parenting Mojo, Jen Lumanlan about how we can identify and tame our internal triggers to create healthier relationships with our kids.This work often involves delving into our

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00:33:37

214 // Compassion: Where Love Meets Suffering and...

Mother Tongue ·

2023/01/10

We all go through hard times. People we love experience hard things. What do we do when we are faced with the suffering of others? It can be easy to either push it away because it is too painful to see, or we can go the other way and fully immerse ourselves in a way that is more enmeshment than compassion. In this episode, Taralyn shares some personal experiences that have recently invited her to delve deep into what it means to be compassionate. She uses the work of Brene Brown, Kristin Neff, and

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