HeyJaredMom Maintenance
Mom Maintenance is a short pep talk for moms who are trying their best and still feel overwhelmed.If you’re exhausted, mentally overloaded, and tired of feeling like you should be doing more, this podcast is for you.Each episode offers simple, practical ways to understand and…
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Chocolate, Instagram, and Avoiding Your Life (opens the original)
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Have you ever picked up your phone for a quick break, wandered into the pantry for something sweet, or disappeared into a book—only to return to your life feeling even more overwhelmed? That’s buffering: using food, scrolling, shopping, reading, or other distractions to take the edge off an uncomfortable emotion. The activity itself isn’t necessarily a problem. The real question is whether you’re choosing it intentionally or using it to escape something you don’t want to feel. In this episode, A
Mom! Give Yourself Some Credit! (opens the original)
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Have you ever ended a day completely exhausted—only to look around and wonder what you actually accomplished? Motherhood requires an enormous amount of physical, mental, and emotional work, yet much of it is invisible, unfinished, and rarely acknowledged. This can leave us feeling both inadequate and resentful that no one recognizes how much we’re carrying. In this episode, we explore what changes when we stop waiting for someone else to validate our contribution and learn to see it for ourselve
What's on Your To-Do List? (opens the original)
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Do you ever get to the end of a busy day and wonder how you did so much but somehow still didn’t do enough? When your to-do list keeps growing, it’s easy to believe you’re always behind. But what happens when “I have too much to do” leaves you wanting to disappear into a book or scroll your phone instead of tackling the next thing? This week on Mom Maintenance, we’re looking at the story you’re telling yourself about everything you have to do—and whether it’s actually helping. We’ll talk about c
What to do with the Crushing Back-to-School Overwhelm (opens the original)
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School hasn’t even started yet, and somehow you’re already exhausted by all the lunches, practices, forms, carpools, and rushed afternoons waiting for you. In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between having a genuinely full schedule and mentally trying to carry the entire school year all at once. I’ll help you notice the thoughts making your schedule feel even heavier, decide what your kids can begin carrying for themselves, and give yourself permission to simplify, delegate, and
Just Because You Feel It, Doesn't Mean It's True (opens the original)
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Have you ever felt guilty and assumed it meant you had done something wrong? Or felt someone else’s disappointment and decided you must have failed them? That’s emotional reasoning—when we take the way we feel and turn it into evidence about what is true. In this episode, we’ll talk about why your teenager’s anger doesn’t necessarily mean your boundary is wrong, why being empathetic doesn’t mean you can read someone else’s mind, and how worry can feel like proof that something terrible is about
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