Citrus Love - Keeping Motherhood Inspired

''It's not a matter of motivating these kids, it's a matter of making them feel safe and then they can be free to succeed.'' Rebecca Smith

How can you create consistency in your sport regardless of the pressure or anxiety that you might feel?  

Rebecca Smith, a former gymnast, specializes in high performance sports psychology in coaching teens 10-18 years old as well as their parents to learn to overcome fear and anxiety to thrive and succeed in their sport.

In this episode:

- being a recovering perfectionist raising little gymnasts

- why your brain wants to sabotage the body

-the 4 pillars of training

-legalizing failure and the wisdom of failure

- visual, audio and kinesthetic learners

- how to communicate with the coach

- is there still a toxic culture in competitive sports? 

- how your teen can learn to speak up

- the DO'S and DON'T of parenting a teen in sports

-how to lose in sports

- And More!

-

Thank you for listening and please don't forget to leave a review for the podcast!

Notes about this episode HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

In this episode we talk about:

- what she thinks of dating and relationships

-how she heard of women becoming single mothers by choice

- the specifics of how she got pregnant and the process as well as other options for women

- what are diblings and the pros and cons

- Sperm donors 

- her recommendations for the women thinking about it

- ressources that may help you

If you're a single woman but truly want to have a child...sooner rather than later then listen to this episode with pioneer mama of Single Mothers by Choice, author and psychotherapist Jane Mattes.  She has over 41 years experience supporting over 30000 members in her organization 'single mothers by choice'.

This conversation is releasing all of the pressure that you might have with 'finding' the right partner just in time to have a baby before your eggs run dry...sort of speaking.

Things we talk about:
- why some women are choosing to become single mothers by choice
-why you will not be doing this alone
- the 40 years evolution of the SMC organization and the type of women choosing this unconventional path to motherhood
-what kids think about being raised in these alternative families
- the role of fathers in these alternative families
And More...

Enjoy!

Notes from this episode are HERE

Join our community on Facebook HERE

This conversation will teach you the simple steps to having more energy and feeling better by putting an end to the thoughts that might be keeping you feeling less than what you deserve to be feeling.

This single mama shares how this technique healed her from a painful divorce and has helped her clients and kids in schools to learn how to clean their mind starting at a young age and how you can do it too!

In this conversation you'll learn:

1- How to release the negative energy (or pain) in your mind.

2- Then, how to reframe it with positive phrases. 

Get the notes from this episode HERE

Thank you for listening! 

See you next episode...

Join our community on Facebook HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

''Aim to be the brave-hearted individual.''  Barbara Coloroso

44 years parenting expert, best selling author, mother, grandmother and educator Barbara Coloroso like back again on the podcast to help parents, mothers and educators on how to break the cycle of bullying from the kid (and sometimes adults) who bully, the targeted bullied child and what she calls the not-so-innocent-bystander watching it all happen.

This conversation gets really specific so that you may learn and try her tried and tested and what I'm calling 'let's put an end to this bullying' tools.

Some Things We Talk About:

• The Circle of Bullying
• Passive Supporters
• Telling VS Tattling
• How to raise a brave-hearted child
• Mean vs. Kind ...and why being nice is not so nice
• How do you start standing up for yourself against bullies
• She explains the importance of not fighting back
• How to stand strong and why it matters against bullying
• Conflict Resolution
• What to Do & What Not to Do as a parent
• The 4 antidotes to Bullying
• And Much More!

Notes from this episode HERE

Listening to an episode!, please snap a picture and share it on instagram tag @citruslovepodcast or on facebook @citruslovepodcast

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Thank you for listening! 

See you next episode...

Join our Facebook community HERE

Do Good This Season...

Love is The Only Thing That Works.  Kathy Headlee

This conversation will open your hearts to the good, the possibilities and a mother's love that changed so many lives on the world over the last 31 years!

Some things we talk about:

• A mother's love
• The power of your curiosity
• It's okay to feel what you feel
• Being caring individuals 
• Raising global citizens
• Expand your vision
• Be that girl!
• Being a stay at home mom
• Making a difference
• Condition Bias
• And Much More...

Get the BEST notes from this episode HERE

Listening to an episode!, please snap a picture and share it on instagram tag @citruslovepodcast or on facebook @citruslovepodcast

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Thank you for listening! 

See you next episode...

''Abandon the notion of labeling emotions as exclusively positive or negative and instead, target what is healthy or unhealthy in a situation.''  Excerpt from Todd's latest book 'The Upside of Your Dark Side'

Psychologist & Researcher Todd Kashdan is saying is boldly how you can raise children to learn to embrace the spectrum of emotions the 'good' and the 'darker' ones and as adults.

He's got a lot of stories to share that illustrates many examples of how we can better teach and guide our kids not to fear or avoid when necessary these negative emotions. 

From parenting to adulting, if you don't enjoy negative emotions or dealing with people using negative emotions then listen to this conversation!

 Notes from this episode HERE

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

''Be curious about each other instead of furious about each other.''  Winifred Reilly

She's been told that her way is unconventional yet she clearly states today that she is happily married to the same man for 40 years...although it wasn't that way in the beginning of their married life.

Don't miss this conversation with a 40 years specialized couples therapist insights and advice for you.

Some Things we talk about in this conversation:

• How to know if you should leave or if you should stay?
• What couples therapists really think about couples in therapy will shock you 
• What to do when your partner isn't interested in going to therapy or changing anything in your relationship
• How to stop complaining or arguing in your relationship
• Myths of marriage
• What needs to change in your relationship
• How to handle being with a partner that's different from you
• The 5 steps that a loving and lasting relationship
• And much more!

Click Here to access the notes about this episode 

Subscribe to our newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

'' The gift we can give ourselves is permission to experiment with education''  Julie Bogart

After homeschooling her 5 kids for 17 years, Julie Bogart, author of 'the brave learner: finding everyday magic in homeschool, learning and life' shares specific examples and tips for us parents on how our kids can best learn to love learning at home.

Things we talked about in this episode:

• why she decided to homeschool her 5 kids
• How children learn best 
• 4 forces of enchantment learning
• BHAG, what it is and how you and your child can benefit greatly from doing it
• How education has changed parents, kids and schools
• Her thoughts on teachers
• Why she says that homeschooling your child is not that difficult, here's why
• AND MORE...

Click Here to access the ressources & notes about this episode 

Subscribe to our newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

''I wanted to make recipes that moms wouldn't make themselves''

''Every baby deserves to eat delicious wholesome food''

Jennifer Carlson, CEO & the creative mind behind Baby Gourmet Inc.

Some things we talk about in this episode:

• Raised as a creative and entrepreneurial child
• When you're in a job that only pays the bills
• How her mom group inspired her business idea
• Finding her passion
• The motivation to keep going while being a young mom
• Finding Success
• Having a vision, dreaming bigger 
• Tips for mothers on feeding your babies baby purees
• Some of her go-to easy baby purees recipes
• Her cookbook
• Life now with her kids and their eating habits
• Giving back to mothers and infants
• And more...!

Notes about this episode HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

The clock is ticking on fertility issues & creating families.

What is surrogacy? Is it legal? What's it really like being a surrogate mother...

Learn the ins and outs of what is happening and how hundreds of couples are waiting to be the next one on the list to receive a baby.

Things You'll Hear In This Episode:

• A 5 time surrogate mother shares her experience
• The world of fertility & infertility
• The truth about your fertility age
• Couples that want to have a baby in a non-traditional way
• How does one become a surrogate mother
• The biggest questions about surrogacy get asked
• How is it really to birth a baby and give it to another couple
• How much does it cost to be a surrogate and to be 'intended parents' awaiting a baby through a surrogate.
• The one law that needs to change.
• Are you an ideal candidate for surrogacy?

Click Here to access the ressources & notes about this episode 

Subscribe to our newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

''I was never a very athletic person but here I was trying to run a 5K race''  Claudia Taboada

What We Talked About:

• Losing yourself caring for a child & living on autopilot.
• The dog that changed her life
• How she stays consistant with her 'me time' as a busy mom
• Changing her mindset
• Setting Goals to Stay On Track
• Self-Care Is Non-Negotiable for moms!
• Doing this makes her feel like a million $$
• Rewards
• A message for the Stay-At-Home-Moms
• Her favorite self care tools
• How to release your stress
• And More...

Get the notes about this episode HERE

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

''Movement Is Healing'' says Idalis and she's got the story to back it up. 

Listen to how she did it and most importantly how she is educating thousands today .....literally helping every type of women and men to do it as well from home.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• A day in the life of a Beachbody Super Trainer
• Being a working mom & traveling for work
• Why she got started in fitness and all things exercise
• How she struggled to stay healthy & fit 
• Becoming a mother 
• Postpartum Depression
• Your system of self-beliefs
• Body Image for Women
• The best exercises for mothers
• And More...

Get the notes about this episode HERE

To learn more about the host Christiane Bégin click HERE

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

In this raw uncensored conversation 2 new mothers are talking honestly about how it felt like becoming mothers for the first time with (one being during COVID) and dealing with the emotions, bringing expectations of motherhood and the lack of understanding of what is postpartum depression to the table.  

Click Here to access notes from this episode 

Subscribe to the Citrus Love Newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

80% of mothers with a new baby will get the baby blues and 1 in 5 women will have postpartum depression.

So let's do it together and bring more awareness about maternal mental health to pregnant women, moms and their families.

What You'll Learn In Episode:

• The reality of 3 different mothers and how they experienced maternal mental health like postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety after the birth of either their first baby or second baby.
• They share what they did specifically to heal themselves and feel like happier mothers again and how they got the support needed to do it.

Click Here to access the ressources & notes from this episode 

Subscribe to the Citrus Love Newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

I'm finally opening up about my own story of becoming a mom on the podcast...sharing some of the struggles I faced that I kept a secret from family & friends and other things about motherhood.

Some Things You'll Learn In This Episode:

Who am I ?

Why did I start this podcast for mothers ?

What I really thought about being a mom...

How my own childhood shaped my perception of motherhood.

Shame about motherhood

Maternal Mental Health

What's coming up this month on the podcast

and more....

Click Here to access notes from this episode .

Subscribe to the Citrus Love Newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

Do you ever get those nudges....the ones that you feel deep inside...author, entrepreneur and philanthropist Jessica Janzen, mom of 3 shares how following them changed her life.

What You'll Learn In Episode:

• Jessica's story
• having a joyful mindset and daily 'joy starters'
• Why following your heart's nudges leads to a better life
• Body Love & Body Confidence 
• Keeping your relationship strong after having kids
• giving back to SMA Disease for babies & kids
• How to live joyfully and with purpose after the death of your baby/child
• The Lewiston Foundation & how it's impacting families & the research for a cure
• Jessica's message to parents 
• The importance of movement and dance party's
• and more fun filled honest talk....

Click Here to access the notes from this episode 

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• What's the one class every child should be taking starting in preschool
• The 101 on how she teaches 2 years old to read
• How failure is part of success
• Tips on how you can encourage your kids confidence through their speaking skills at home
• Other important life skills that kids should be learning much earlier
• Her 'PERFECT Rules' for public speaking with confidence
• What to do to release the stress before speaking in front of people
• And Much More...

Click Here to access notes from this episode 

Subscribe to the Citrus Love Newsletter 

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community HERE

Parents are made to worry with the abundance of screen time is bad, screen time is unhealthy and screen time should be limited to this and that amount per day....but it doesn't work into most of our digital focused family lives, work spaces and especially in this digital world and future.

So listen to this mother and 30 years media, internet and child's rights expert that has written 20 books about these topics on how you can parent in this reality WHILE keeping your own values and your family's screen time use in harmony.

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• What type of digital parent are you?
• Why there are strict guidelines for parents around the quantity of your kids screen time and why we are not using it correctly.
• How to promote a joint-engagement in your family
• What the research really says about your kids screen time use
• How to identify when it's too much for your child
• What to do about your teenagers overuse of their phones at home?  It's not what you might think....
• A child's right in this digital world
• Safety concerns & tips around your child's internet use
• Screen time with relatives, in the car and in public spaces...
• And Much More...

Click Here to access notes from this episode 

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE

'Some days you're going to crush it as a mom and other days you'll be shitty at it BUT that's what balance is.'  Dr. Jody Carrington

What You'll Learn In This Episode:

• Surprising truths about Dr. Jody's transition to mom life
• Mothering these days
• How to reconnect with anyone
• The ONE thing that you should be teaching your child
• Why kids are meant to flip their lids...
• The art of apologizing
• Life during COVID times
• And Much More...

Click Here to access notes from this episode & the bonus PDF HERE

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive some favorite tips and takeaways from each episode directly to you!!

Join the Citrus Love Facebook Community & watch training videos HERE