The Modern Mommy Doc Podcast (Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP)

Every day we all have choices to make. If you’re feeling like you’re just running on a treadmill endlessly and never making progress, or that your life is one big pile of laundry, or you feel like you never accomplish anything that feels really meaningful for you, this is an episode you’ll want to tune into. I’m sharing the same framework that I used to find the navigational beacon in my life so that you can get what you want out of your life - without losing sight of what you need.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/41

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Grab it here!

Having a baby is hard work, but so is taking care of your body after your baby comes. On this episode, we're getting into the nitty-gritty of it. I talk with Jessica Voge, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist and a mom of two, about all things postpartum: body image, breastfeeding, postpartum depression, diastasis recti, hemorrhoids, and more. If you're a new mom or are about to be, this one is for you. If it's been awhile since you were in the postpartum period but know a mama you could use some solid advice on the subject, make sure to share this one with your community.

Find Dr. Voge:

Legacy Health OBGYN

Find Help For Postpartum Depression and Anxiety:

Baby Blues Connection

Postpartum Support International

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Lisa Bravo is an acclaimed psychotherapist, speaker, author, and teacher who has worked in the field for over 20 years and has a passion for working with teenagers and their parents to ease extreme behavior. We’re discussing the reasons behind why kids of all ages act out, how to interpret their behavior, and how to discipline in a way that doesn’t further push your child away. Lisa also shares when the right time is to deliver discipline and what the first step is to shifting away from a discipline approach (and why you should!)

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/51

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Grab it here!

In this episode, Dr. Whitney talks about why moms are comparing themselves to everyone else, now more than ever. She also gives practical encouragement on how to break the habit. Find our more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/the-daily-damage-why-moms-are-constantly-comparing-themselves-and-why-they-need-to-stop

In this episode, Dr. Whitney discusses Different Thinkers: ADHD with authors Katia Frederickson and Yael Rothman. The episode focuses on ways parents can support their children if they have ADHD, and on the power of understanding your wiring as a child. They talk about their backgrounds as pediatric neuropsychologists and the importance of understanding brain behavior relationships. They also discuss the accessibility and cost of evaluations and the need for resources to help children understand their strengths and challenges in a kid-friendly way.

For more, go to www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Baby, joins us this week on the podcast to talk about what truly makes a baby smart and how to capitalize on a baby’s natural intelligence. His advice, based on neurologic and developmental research, may surprise you.

Learn more about Dr. Medina:

Brain Rules

Read Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

Mentioned in This Episode:

Carol Dweck, PhD: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

This episode, Dr. Whitney talks about all the things that are constantly pulling on working moms and how to make decisions when everything seems to need attention.

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

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Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/finding-your-unicorn-space-decisions-everything-is-important

It’s not a secret that finding affordable, reliable, and safe childcare is one of the toughest tasks for working parents that often falls on the shoulders of working moms. This episode Dr. Whitney speaks with Bridget Garsh of NeighborSchools about why childcare has been such a struggle for working parents and the solutions they are trying to bridge that gap.

Bridget Garsh is COO and Co-Founder of NeighborSchools and host of the podcast, “Work Like A Mother” and this episode we’re talking about childcare for working moms and solutions to the struggles they face finding it.

Find out more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/a-new-solution-to-the-childcare-shortage-with-bridget-garsh

In this Episode:

Check Out NeighborSchools

https://www.neighborschools.com

https://www.neighborschools.com/podcast

Join the Modern Mamas Club

Download the App!

https://www.modernmamasclub.com

Dr. Whitney speaks with Dr. Morgan Cutlip about her brand new book, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do, where she outlines a framework for moms to learn to love their kids without losing themselves. She discusses her 5 steps to banishing guilt and beating burnout, when you already have too much to do.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and

We have to start differentiating between coping in ways that will cause harm to us and our family and self-care. True self-care is about taking care of yourself in the most intimate ways and building connections with yourself to understand who you are.

What if we changed the narrative from “Self-care isn’t selfish” to ““Self-care doesn’t have to be selfish”? Because as a maternal and child public health expert, I’ve absolutely seen it turn that way.

Join me on this episode for more HERE: modernmommydoc.com/self-care-without-collateral-damage

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Need a Mama Reset? You've got it!

Try the Mama Reset Half-day Retreat (At Home) in the Modern Mamas Club App!

Explore all the topics covered during our time together:

• SELF-CARE: Why is it so important? How do you personally define it? How can you incorporate it into your life?
• GOAL-SETTING: Create a roadmap to an impactful plan made just for YOU and YOUR life
• HEALTH RITUALS: Nutrition that fuels you and movement that moves you beyond just the physical - including easy meal prep tips
• SELF-LOVE: Being kind to yourself and addressing your own needs without feeling guilty
• MINDFUL COMPASSION: Developing it for yourself, your kids, and your partner 
• MINDSET: Create inner strength and peace through meditation and self-reflection
• TIME MANAGEMENT: Do less so you can do more of what brings you joy 
• BURNOUT: It happens! Understand it, address it, and avoid it

Get it HERE: modernmamasclub.com or the Apple App Store

In this episode, we read chapter 9 from The Working Mom Blueprint: What's For Dinner? You can find out all about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/making-mid-week-mealtimes-easy-for-working-moms

Read the show notes: modernmommydoc.com/relationship-seasons-with-our-partners

Do you want to know the answer to all of your vexing questions? If you answered yes, then you’ll need to check out the amazing podcast You Must Know Everything, hosted by Jeremy Smith, and his daughter, Rasa. Jeremy and Rasa join me today to talk all about their podcast, from how the idea for the podcast first came about, to how the format works, and give you a taste of what you can expect when you tune in each week.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/35

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too.

Sarah is the host of the Start Up Parent Podcast, and an experienced solopreneur. She walks us through the mindset and skill hacks she's leaned on to stay focused on productive as a businesswoman. Learn more about this episode HERE: www.modernmommydoc.com/how-to-found-your-own-company-and-keep-it-thriving-with-sarah-peck-from-start-up-parent

Do you have a hard time saying no? Learn what you can take off your plate so you can set the healthy boundaries you need to live the life you want. You can find out all about this episode here: www.modernmommydoc.com/5-things-i-say-no-to-so-i-avoid-burnout

In this episode, Dr. Whitney reads chapter 7 from The Working Mom Blueprint: Choosing Child Care Options. You can find out all about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/finding-childcare-that-meets-your-family-s-needs-and-your-busy-life

Today, Dr. Whitney's talking Big Mom Energy—that superpower we all have as modern moms to do it all, all the time. But she's not focused on helping you do more with less. Nope, this episode is all about harnessing that energy and funneling toward your top priorities—the ones that give you purpose, peace, and presence.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and mental health advocates, Doing It All meets

In this episode, Dr. Whitney chats with Lauren Chaitoff, author of 108 Awesome Yoga Poses for Kids and founder of Yogi Beans, a yoga and wellness company for children. They chat about ways to incorporate yoga practices into your daily life with your children as well as ways moms and kids can show up for themselves best.

Find out more at www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Dr. Whitney talks with author Lydia Fenet about ways to be confident in yourself as a mother and woman, while not having to carry around the weight of being Superwoman. Check out her most recent book, Claim Your Confidence.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and mental health advocates, Doing It...

Breastfeeding can be a beautiful part of the new mom experience but it can also be daunting and disappointing. This week on the podcast, certified lactation consultant Katie Kennedy, IBCLC, talks with me about what mamas can do to set themselves up for breastfeeding success (and what success really means when it comes to this sensitive area)...and what they can do if it feeding their babies doesn’t go as planned.

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Looking for even more advice on breastfeeding or on ALL things new baby?

The New Baby Blueprint: Taking Care if You and Your Little One is on shelves now and online wherever books are sold.

The Bump said: "They say motherhood doesn’t come with a manual, but The New Baby Blueprint, brought to you by the American Academy of Pediatrics, comes pretty close. Author Whitney Casares, a pediatrician and mom of two, walks expectant parents through all the essentials of prepping for baby’s arrival, including what to expect in the first days and weeks, and how to prepare your home, your partner and your brain for having a newborn—all through a relatable mix of humor and practical advice."

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Casares talks with pediatrician and Blueberry Pediatrics co-founder Dr. Lyndsey Garbi, about how her telehealth pediatric practice is bringing medicine to parents in brand new ways and making it so that medicine is accessible to more people than ever before.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome...

In this episode, I share three steps to help you prepare for this coming school year. I want to give you the space to acknowledge your emotions and help you be intentional about what you want your kids to get out of this coming year, so that your kids and you come out more and more resilient.

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Whitney Casares, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

Founder, Modern Mommy Doc (http://www.modernmommydoc.com/) 

Social: @modernmommydoc (https://www.instagram.com/modernmommydoc/) 

Email: info@modernmommydoc.com (mailto:info@modernmommydoc.com)

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney talks with author Amber Trueblood about practical ways moms can recenter their lives and begin to unfluster themselves–all in under 60 seconds.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and mental health advocates, Doing It All meets working moms where they are, recognizes the personal and systemic challenges they face, and offers solutions that really work. It’s time to stop merely “surviving”...

Did you grow up being told that you could have it all?

Do you “have it all” but have absolutely no idea how to balance it all?

Cherylanne Skolnicki is a former corporate ladder climber turned entrepreneur who founded Brilliant Balance, a work-life mentorship program that helps professional women honour their calling at work and at home so they can shine in both places.

Cherylanne joins me today to talk about the fallacy of “having it all,” what balance really means (other than a buzzword), and how we can all start to find balance in our lives.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/42

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Grab it here!

Learning to love your life even when it’s completely different than what you originally thought it might be like can be tricky, but is incredibly worth working through. This week, Dr. Whitney looks at how the idea of radical acceptance can change not only how you feel about your circumstances, but also room to manage those feelings as well. Learn more about the episode HERE: www.modernmommydoc.com/how-radical-acceptance-can-help-you-enjoy-your-life

Dr. Whitney talks with author Monica Berg about the inspiration behind her latest book, The Gift of Being Different, and how she and her daughter tell the story of her dyslexia diagnosis. They don’t let it pull them down, but instead reframe it, so that she could see what an amazing superpower her uniqueness really is.

It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife 

You get to decide how your life goes, Mama. You’ve been held back by stress and obligations. I’m ready to take you toward the life you’ve always dreamed of—where you’re the parent, partner, and person you always wanted to be!

Work with me, Dr. Whitney, via 1:1 Coaching:

I've had mama after mama ask me for 1:1 coaching sessions and, until now, the answer had to be “no.” I was working more often at my pediatrics practice, I was busy recording podcasts, I was finishing my next book...

But now, it's time.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW 1:1 COACHING SESSIONS WITH ME AT MODERN MOMMY DOC.SESSIONS FOR YOU AND WITH YOU—AND ONLY YOU—TO FOCUS ON YOUR PARTICULAR PAIN POINTS AS YOU JUGGLE WORK, AND PARTNERS, AND KIDS, AND LIFE, AND YOUR NEEDS.

If you're tired of snapping at your kids and being constantly angry with your partner, feeling like a failure, and trying to will yourself to be better the next time around, I've got you.

LET ME SHOW YOU A BETTER WAY.

You've done the hard work of having a baby. Now it's time to nourish yourself while you nourish your little one. On the podcast this week, Megan Landrum and Anna Bohnengel, creators of Alavita, an online peripartum nutrition plan for expectant and new mamas, talk about their own eating journeys and how they support moms everywhere looking to optimize their health postpartum and feel good in their own bodies.

Find Alavita

www.alavitanutrition.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney tells a personal story of when her daughter asked her the question we never want to hear as parents, “Am I fat?” She breaks down how she answered and why she said what she did, in hopes that you can be prepared for those conversations in your own family.

Show Notes, Key Takeaways, and More at www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Resentment is something we deal with constantly as working moms. Feeling like we’re undervalued, being stepped all over, or stuck in a career that we don’t want. Dr. Whitney gets to the root of why we feel resentful and how to move forward in your centered life living out the vision you’ve created for yourself. www.modernmommydoc.com/how-to-deal-with-resentment-with-your-kids-your-partner-and-at-work

Other Resources:

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Here's what you'll have access to:

☀️ Mama Mentors ☀️

Experts to help you at your fingertips! Schedule direct 1:1 convos with coaches, therapists, and experts to help you move from feeling stuck to being a little more centered, grounded, and ready to move in the direction of a life you love.

☀️ Monthly Momversations ☀️

I’m sitting down with a panel of experts each month to bring you practical advice to help you improve your motherhood experience. From bestselling authors, to psychologists, therapists, and CEOs—we’ll get all of your questions answered. These conversations are fueled by YOU.

☀️ Daily Dose Guided Lessons ☀️

All of my signature content via bite-sized daily activations, video lessons, and written activities on topics that will help you everyday.

☀️ Daily Affirmations ☀️

Support and encouragement from our Modern Mommy Doc team straight to your device. We’ll be sending you mini notes each day to help you, encourage you, or to make you giggle.

☀️ Mama Community ☀️

Join busy working modern mamas just like YOU go from conflicted, burnt out, to happy and thriving. 

☀️ Challenges ☀️

We believe that centered mamas raise happy kids, and I’m here to guide you through that journey with our monthly challenges.Are you ready to start making progress and break those habits that have been holding you back all this time? We’ll start with these challenges as baby steps toward your ultimate goals!

Download the app today: www.modernmamasclub.com

For android devices, click here.

We all have a lot going on as mamas. I’ve been there, feeling overwhelmed and conflicted, and like I couldn’t possibly keep all these balls in the air and maintain my sanity at the same time.

That’s why in this episode, I’m talking about how we can go from being overwhelmed and conflicted, to feeling aligned and centred.

I’ll be diving into the first step towards a centred life from what I’ve learned on my personal journey - from sobbing in the shower to feeling like I had some balance in my life.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/39

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Grab it here!

Becoming a mom is an amazing experience full of joy and gratitude. It also can bring about feelings of shame and guilt that are overwhelming and keep us stuck. Dr. Whitney talks about why moms are feeling more shame than ever, how to handle it, and why walking through those emotions is actually a powerful thing. Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-to-deal-with-feelings-of-shame-as-a-mom

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club App!

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Did you realize how much your gut microbiome influences your metabolism, your weight and your overall health?

Dr. Whitney talks with Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of Pendulum Therapeutics about how the gut microbiome works, optimizing the way your body handles the nutrients you consume, and choosing a probiotic that really works.

Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pendulum. She has over 15 years of experience leading and managing biology teams in academia, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Prior to starting Pendulum, Colleen was the Senior Manager of Biology at Pacific Biosciences and a Scientist at Elan Pharmaceuticals. Colleen received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and her B.A. in Biochemistry from Wellesley College.

You can find out more at www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

About Pendulum:

Pendulum optimizes the metabolism of sugar and carbohydrates, reducing sugar cravings and energy slumps, boosting sugar and carb metabolism, AND supporting a healthy weight.

Pendulum understands that whole-body health and wellness is tied to the complex ecosystem of microorganisms that is the microbiome, and that addressing imbalances in the microbiome transform people’s lives from the inside.

Their mission is simple: to improve the lives of millions through microbiome products. To that end, they create products that have the power and efficacy of a pharmaceutical with the safety and accessibility of a probiotic.

To accomplish their mission, they developed an entirely new product–a medical probiotic. Medical probiotics are the bridge between nature and medicine, helping restore our bodies to their peak balance.

To learn more about Pendulum Therapeutics AND to get 20% off your first month of Pendulum membership, go to www.pendulumlife.com and use code MODERN20

Dr. Amy Moore is a cognitive psychologist and child development specialist with over 25 years of experience in the field. She is also the Research Director for LearningRx and the host of the Brainy Moms podcast. Kim Hanson is the CEO of LearningRx, and her passion is to help professionals, educators, and parents learn more about cognitive skills and how they impact real-life performance.

Today we’re chatting about cognitive skill development, learning difficulties with kids, and how to optimize learning. I’m excited to share this episode because we focus so much on moms, but if a child is experiencing learning difficulties we all know how much that can affect a mom’s (and family’s) well-being.

Listen in as we talk about the factors that influence cognitive ability, including the factors that parents can influence such as diet, physical activity, and screen time. Amy and Kim also share how parents can determine the learning strengths and weaknesses that a child has, and how LearningRx is helping to optimize learning for children.

Connect with Amy:

Twitter

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Website

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Connect with Kim: 

LinkedIn

Visit LearningRx:

LearningRx.com

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The Modern Mamas Club is a safe supportive space for like minded Modern Mamas who dream of having it all, to actually succeed in that dream and lift up other Mamas to succeed along the way. 

✓  A Community of Mamas to Support You

✓  24/7 Access to Dr. Whitney's Video Library

✓  Live Events, Workshops, and Hangouts

✓  Relatable Mom Rooms and Discussions

✓  Resource Library and Dr. Recommendations

✓  Exclusive Discounts and Coupon Codes

✓  Fun Weekly Mini Mom-Note Emails

✓  Weekly Challenges and Prompts

✓  Journaling Downloads and More

It is possible to thrive, not just survive in your work life, parent life and YOU life. Find out more at modernmommydoc.com. #ModernMamasClub #YouLife #ThriveNotSurvive

There are lots of great childcare options out there and, as many mamas return to the office or think about long-term solutions for working from home, it's top of mind. This week, we've got all the juicy details on finding one particular kind of childcare: an amazing nanny. Martha Reddick, host of the Chronicles of Nannya podcast, joins us to talk about her own personal nanny experience and what she's learned from her work with other nanny professionals about finding, selecting, and working with in-home childcare providers.

Find Martha:

The Chronicles of Nannya

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Bethany Braun-Silva is a parenting, entertainment, and lifestyle editor. She is the former editor of parenting.com and frequently writes about the latest and greatest gear for parents and kids as well as health, women's lifestyle, pop culture, home, and food topics. Her work has also appeared in People, Real Simple, Shape, and Parents, and so many more publications. She is a graduate of New York University, but her proudest accomplishment is being a mom to Elias and Jake who make life (and work) endlessly fun!

In this episode, we are talking about work/life balance and parenting out loud, the importance of showing up as your authentic self in every situation, and why learning to advocate for yourself as a working mom is one of the best things you can learn to do for yourself.

Bethany also shares the products that new moms have the most angst and the most excitement about, and we discuss her new web show, The Breakdown of Bethany, all about ambition and the motherhood journey.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3eUUhc4

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

In this episode we discuss the steps career-driven working moms can take to advoate for themselves in the workplace and to join forces with other working parents. You can find out all about the episide HERE: modernmommydoc.com/is-your-appearance-your-identity-finding-freedom-from-diet-culture-at-work-and-at-home-and-redefining-your-worth-with-paige-bryant

This episode, Dr. Whitney is joined by Kelly Hubbell, founder and SEO of Sage House, an online platform designed for moms who want to really value their time and make the most of the hours in their days, focusing the most on what matters to them. They talk through the roadblocks working moms come against when trying to balance the workloads in their families and how we can help prepare our children to do the same in theirs.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring...

Dr. Whitney chats with Seed and Sew CEO, Alyssa Blask Campbell, about how as parents, we can’t react logically and appropriately to our children or at work when we’re already dysregulated. They chat through how to regulate your own emotions, so that you can help your child regulate theirs. 

For more tips and resources on Navigating Children's BIG Emotions, download the Modern Mamas Club App for our daily dose of just that! Each day, you'll get bite-sized lessons on:

✸ CARING FOR YOUR NEEDS: Starting with your needs so you can feel your best - ensuring the foundation is solid

✸ DEVELOPMENT: Understanding what’s really happening inside

✸ ATTENDING TO THE BASICS: The items we all need - sleep, nutrition, and physical activity 

✸ TEMPERAMENT AND TRIGGERS: Getting down to the specifics for your individual child 

✸ MINDFULNESS: Changing immediate reactions of high emotion to calm consideration

✸ PARENTING STYLES: Identifying your personal style 

✸ CONNECTION: Building a nurturing environment where you problem-solve collaboratively 

✸ RESILIENCE: Seven tips to make us all stronger, no matter our age 

✸ MINDSET: Using internal and external tools to diffuse your feelings of being overwhelmed and frustrated 

✸ SUCCESSFUL SYSTEMS: Create an immediate parenting philosophy that your child successfully responds to and learns from

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It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife with the Modern Mamas Club App

For such a long time, I wanted to escape my life as a working mom. It was so exhausting, and defeating, and MADDENING. 🤦🏼‍♀️ How about you? 😬

You don't want a life that you need to regularly escape from, and you also don't want a life that you need to regularly recover from.

✨Take this leap with me! There's a happy mama with happy kids that's efficient AF deep within you! Let's let her thrive in her working mama life. Be the parent, professional, and person you're meant to be. 🔥

Join the Modern Mamas Club App

You'll have 24/7 access to:

✨ Monthly Momversations

I'm sitting down with a panel of experts each month to bring you practical advice to help you improve your motherhood experience. From bestselling authors, to psychologists, therapists, and CEOs-we'll get all of your questions answered. These conversations are fueled by YOU.

✨ On-Demand Video Lessons on Parenting, Self-Care and Our Signature Centered Life Blueprint

All of my signature content via bite-sized daily activations, video lessons, and written activities on topics that will help you everyday.

✨ Daily Affirmations

Support and encouragement from our Modern Mommy Doc team straight to your device. We'll be sending you mini notes each day to help you, encourage you, or to make you giggle.

✨ Mama Community

Join busy working modern mamas just like YOU go from conflicted, burnt out, to happy and thriving.

✨ Challenges

We believe that centered mamas raise happy kids, and I'm here to guide you through that journey with our monthly challenges.Are you ready to start making progress and break those habits that have been holding you back all this time? We'll start with these challenges as baby steps toward your ultimate goals!

Install the App

Every mom has a different journey in motherhood, which can often feel isolating. But one of the biggest ways to combat that is by being a part of a community. Dr. Whitney talks to founder and CEO of Mindful Mamas Terra LaRock to discuss the “why” behind the community and educational platform she created for moms learning to take back their motherhood through mindfulness and meditation. Learn more about this episode here: modernmamasclub.com/how-mindfulness-can-transform-motherhood-with-terra-larock

Mentioned in this episode:

The Mindful Mamas App

https://mindfulmamasapp.com

The Modern Mamas Club App

modernmamasclub.com

Dr. Whitney talks with Emily Tisch Sussman from the She Pivots Podcast about what her life looked like when she went from high powered political consultant to a mom who really didn’t want to give that up. Emily gives insight into how it felt to finally acknowledge she was going to be giving up pieces of her dream career and what she’s moved onto now (hint: her podcast is AMAZING!) Learn more about Emily and this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Toi Sweeney is a fashion expert and founder of The Well Dressed Brand. She’s renowned for her approach to elevating professional brands but she’s also on the money when it comes to helping individual mamas think about themselves positively, and dress in a way that garners the respect and attention they deserve, no matter where their career path takes them. Even in the age of COVID-19, dressing the way you want to be addressed is completely in-style.

Follow Toi:

@toisweeney

Learn More About The Well-Dressed Brand:

www.toisweeney.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney uses her experience as a pediatrician to explain how the formula shortage points to a lack of support for women in the workplace, why women might not choose to breastfeed, and changes we need to see made in order to support women in the workplace. Learn more about this episode at www.modernmommydoc.com/what-the-formula-shortage-tells-us-about-the-lack-of-support-for-women-in-the-workplace

Resources: https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/pdf/strategy5-support-breastfeeding_workplace.pdf

Mentioned in this episode:

The Modern Mamas Club App

Download at: www.modernmamasclub.com

In this episode, Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown, a sleep medicine expert, joins the Modern Mommy Doc podcast to discuss restful sleep for kids AND their parents. She and Dr. Whitney explore the challenges toddlers, kids, and teenagers face in getting enough sleep and the impact it has on their mental health. Dr. Brown emphasizes the importance of consistency, routines, and creating a sleep-friendly environment for better sleep. She also addresses the use of melatonin and sleep aids, recommending that behavioral strategies and healthy sleep habits be prioritized before considering medication. Dr. Brown offers resources and courses on her website, www.therestfulsleepplace.com, to help parents and teens improve their sleep.

This week's podcast and newsletter are brought to you by Care.com. Care.com connects families with local caregivers, including nannies, babysitters, tutors, senior care providers, dog walkers, housekeepers, and more.

Go to www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast for the full show notes.

Ever feel like you're drowning in parenthood, feeling trapped and stuck as you try to balance it all, especially when it comes to diet and exercise? You don't have to. This week we're honored to have Robin Long as our guest to tell us about a better way. She's the founder of The Balanced Life, where she helps other women find grace over guilt when it comes to eating and exercise, but also in all other areas of their lives. Robin is passionate about helping women love their bodies, become the healthiest version of themselves, and take a realistic and balanced approach to health & fitness. 

About the Balanced Life:

The Balanced Life is a website and membership community that provides high quality online Pilates workouts for busy women.

Sign up now to join Robin on the FREE Strength & Stress Relief Challenge March 9-13

• The Strength & Stress Relief Challenge is a free 5-day Pilates challenge hosted by Robin Long and The Balanced Life.
• No equipment necessary. All you need is access to the internet and a comfortable place to do your Pilates.
• All levels are welcome and perfect for every stage of life!
• Each workout is just 15 minutes long and is designed to help you improve your consistency, build strength, and improve the way you feel in your body each day!
• Everyday you will receive an email with a Pilates workout + one super simple, yet powerful, way to reduce stress as you go throughout their day.

Join the Balanced Life Sisterhood starting March 16 (Enrollment Open March 16-20 only) 

As a Sisterhood member, each month you'll receive:

• A Monthly Workout Calendar - a M-F plan that's flexible and easy to follow. 
• A Monthly Wellness Focus
• An On-Demand Pilates Workout Library
• An Uplifting Community of Women 
• A Database of Easy and Healthy Recipes 

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

In this episode, Dr. Whitney dives deep into why it’s so hard for women to hold their boundaries. We all know that boundaries are healthy, but it’s simply more difficult for women, especially moms, to set boundaries and keep them. This episode gives you practical tips on how to make it happen.

For more on this episode, visit www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast.

This week, Dr. Whitney talks through a personal journey she’s been on throughout her daughter’s process of getting a formal autism diagnosis. For a long time, she’s felt this diagnosis would give her relief from feeling like all that her daughter deals with is her fault. In this episode, she tackles why that’s a damaging way of thinking and how she’s learning to reframe it. Learn more about the episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/everything-thats-wrong-with-your-child-is-not-your-fault

Dr. Whitney talks with Dr. Shelby Harris, a clinical psychologist and sleep expert, about how moms (anyone really) can get better sleep without medication and why we’ve got to stop wearing our tiredness as badges of honor. Learn more about the episode HERE: wwwmodernmommydoc.com/podcast

Struggling through motherhood? We've got an app for that.

Check out the Modern Mamas Club App in the Apple App Store! Encompassing five different key teachings in our Daily Dose Guided Lessons by Dr. Whitney Casares, we hope you'll join us from being conflicted, burnt out, and overwhelmed, to more centered and fulfilled.

www.modernmamasclub.com

Love this episode? Let us know! Leave a review or share it on your social media, and we'll share it on ours!

Listen here: https://modernmommydoc.com/how-to-declutter-home-and-life

Your environment and your home should be a safe haven from the world...NOT an added stress to the rest of your life. 

Allie Casazza is on a mission to eradicate the "hot mess mom" stereotype by empowering other women. She is the author of Declutter Like a Mother and has built a multimillion-dollar online business based on her proven, family-oriented approach to minimalism. She is also the host of The Purpose Show and the creator of multiple online programs and courses.

From start to finish, decluttering is a process that truly pays off. It benefits you, your stress levels, your family, and the overwhelm of simply having too much stuff. But did you know that decluttering is WAY MORE than just getting rid of “stuff”.  Decluttering helps you take back the ownership of your life - in your time, your calendar, your self care … your everything. So let’s dive into all things decluttering with Allie! 

In this episode you will hear:

• Where to start when decluttering your life
• How to invest your time and energy in intentional ways 
• The power of having an environment that supports you

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The Modern Mamas Club is a safe supportive space for like minded Modern Mamas who dream of having it all, to actually succeed in that dream and lift up other Mamas to succeed along the way. 

✓  A Community of Mamas to Support You

✓  24/7 Access to Dr. Whitney's Video Library

✓  Live Events, Workshops, and Hangouts

✓  Relatable Mom Rooms and Discussions

✓  Resource Library and Dr. Recommendations

✓  Exclusive Discounts and Coupon Codes

✓  Fun Weekly Mini Mom-Note Emails

✓  Weekly Challenges and Prompts

✓  Journaling Downloads and More

It is possible to thrive, not just survive in your work life, parent life and YOU life. Find out more at modernmommydoc.com. #ModernMamasClub #YouLife #ThriveNotSurvive

Dr. Whitney talks with Nichole Pounds from www.dotcomtherapy.com about helping highly-sensitive kids, dealing with problematic behavior as a parent, and wrap-around therapy services for kids utilizing the educational system.

It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife 

You get to decide how your life goes, Mama. You’ve been held back by stress and obligations. I’m ready to take you toward the life you’ve always dreamed of—where you’re the parent, partner, and person you always wanted to be!

Work directly with me one on one to break through barriers, make actual progress, and start living the life you've always wanted.

You will walk away from these lessons with:

✨ Peace instead of resentment 

✨ Excitement about the life you lead instead of dread to start the day

Start today: https://modernmommydoc.com/work-with-me

This episode does not focus on healthy diet plans or how to get to a certain size of body. Instead, Dr. Whitney focuses on why women are viewing their bodies so negatively and what we can start to do to change that. Learn more about this episode HERE: www.modernmommydoc.com/when-you-feel-like-shit-about-your-body

In This Episode:

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Kristin Neff is an associate professor in educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Kristin received her doctorate from University of California at Berkeley in moral development. 

Kristin’s work focuses on mindful self compassion, an intentionality in being kind to yourself and showing yourself compassion, just like you would show someone else. And who needs self compassion more than moms...especially working moms? Kristen brings practical steps to implement self compassion into your life and your parenting. 

Be compassionate and kind to yourself today.

In this episode you will hear:

• How to implement mindful self compassion in your life 
• The importance of modeling self compassion to your children
• When to practice self compassion 

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The Modern Mamas Club is a safe supportive space for like minded Modern Mamas who dream of having it all, to actually succeed in that dream and lift up other Mamas to succeed along the way. 

✓  A Community of Mamas to Support You

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It is possible to thrive, not just survive in your work life, parent life and YOU life. Find out more at modernmommydoc.com. #ModernMamasClub #YouLife #ThriveNotSurvive

There are so many people, even mamas, starting side hustles or who’ve been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and started their own business. Dr. Whitney talks with Lauren Boyd, owner of her firm Guide My Business, about the first steps to take to protect your business when it comes to copyrights, trademarks, LLCs, business bank accounts, and more. Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-to-protect-your-business-legally-with-lauren-boyd

Dr. Whitney and Rachael Brooke dive deep about all the damaging messaging women have faced about their bodies and exercise. This conversation will leave you with a burden lifted and encouraged to show up as your best self, whatever that looks like in the moment.

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Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a vision of your life that is centered on your values and goals and then break that vision into actionable priorities so you can start making it a reality. 
• Implement systems to deal with the annoying-but-necessary “have-tos” in your life quickly and efficiently. 
• De-clutter your home, your calendar, and your mind of meaningless, burdensome junk 
• Develop equity in your relationship with your parenting partner 
• Create and maintain boundaries around emotionally laden calls on your attention. 
• Give your kids what they need to be healthy, happy, and successful—without giving away too much of yourself. 
• Prioritize your own mental health and emotional well-being with intentional scheduling and rest 
• And more! 

Featuring powerful personal stories from real working moms, as well as quotes and interview excerpts from parenting experts, medical professionals, and mental health advocates, Doing It All meets working moms where they are, recognizes the personal...

Can you really have it all?

Camille Walker is a lifestyle blogger and podcaster who motivates others to make meaningful connections in simple day-to-day ways through the My Mommy Style blog, and chase their dreams through her Call Me CEO Podcast.

In this episode, we’re talking all about what you really need to know to start your own business and make it a success - all while juggling motherhood. We also talk about the importance of outsourcing what you can, how to hire (or become!) a virtual assistant to take some things off your plate, and why it’s important to have someone in your business who is the “what” person and someone who is the “why” person.

Camille also gives her best advice for moms who are looking to grow a business, including why consistency is more important than perfection, how to find compassion for yourself and the process, and why you should learn to embrace failure and all the lessons it teaches. 

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3wAvhNb

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

We could all use some good news about bad behavior, right? Katherine Reynolds Lewis is here to give that good news to all parents who have ever struggled with bad behavior, and let’s be honest: that’s every single one of us. She spent five years trying to understand kids’ bad behaviour and she’ll be sharing the reasons why it’s not your imagination that there is more “bad behavior” now than in previous generations, why our kids are absolutely experiencing a crisis in self-regulation, what happens in a child’s brain when they are yelled at or shamed, and so much more!

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/38

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The #1 word I hear from Mamas is: CONFLICTED

Do you know that feeling? 

If you’re great at work, you’re not the mom you want to be, if you’re focused on your kids, your work begins to suffer, and somewhere in all of this, the time you spend on your partner, friendships, relatives, chores...and (maybe you) all feel at odds with one another.

Can you relate?

As modern moms we’re skilled at juggling it all, but keeping all those balls in the air can leave us drained and burnt out.

There's a better way.

How You Ask?

The Change Happens When You Build a Life That’s: CENTERED

Come Join Me for the one-day Centered Mamas Live Retreat on January 30th. Me, along with a host of experts & thought leaders will educate you on building and achieving a Centered Life where you are spending more time on what matters most to you and freeing up time spent on tasks/household duties and chores.

We will also create YOUR very own centered life blueprint and learn how to live according to what matters most to you. 

This retreat will give you the tools and inspiration to be the kind of mom you want to be.

Click here to learn more and sign up.

In this episode, we're getting real with Sleep Consultant and Influencer Andrea DeLaTorre, who shares her tips for creating a sustainable sleep strategy for you and your kids. Listen to the full episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/baby-and-toddler-sleep-with-andrea-delatorre-how-to-get-the-rest-you-need-as-a-working-mom-with-young-kids

On a mission to redefine what work/life balance means for modern women, Katie Matusky serves her clients as an experienced adviser. She teaches them to curate vivid, connected, meaningful lives, one system at a time.

Her work is anchored in celebrating female agency and helping women chart a new path forward, towards a joyful, organized every day.

Every client has a different vision for their best life and Katie is meticulous about making it a reality. With her holistic approach, her clients untangle their to-dos and re-evaluate where they dedicate their time. Then she helps them build an operations manual for how they spend their days.

Katie believes life design is essential to human health, happiness, and well-being. She is the only coach in the industry who helps clients weave the many loose ends of their lives into one cohesive set of systems. 

Based in Chicago, IL, Katie is married to a dashing engineer and dog mom to two adorable dachshunds. She enjoys hosting dinner parties, collecting wine, and traveling the world with her husband

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Check out her website: www.entropyorganized.com

Follower her on Insta at @katiematusky

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Ever lose it with your kids? Or feel like you're ALWAYS losing it with your kids? This week's guest, Carla Naumburg, PhD, LICSW, knows just how you feel. She's a clinical social worker, a mother of two, and author of three books, including her bestseller, How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent and what she learned on her parenting journey about how to yell less and enjoy more.

Follow Carla:

www.carlanaumburg.com

@carlanaumburg

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

Mindful Self-Compassion

Resilience: Dr. Ken Ginsburg

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Laurie James is a mother, caregiver, and divorcée turned author and transformative coach. She wrote the book Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go, and she joins me today to share her story in the hopes that we can all learn from her experience.

Listen in as Laurie describes what it was like to struggle to “do it all” while her ideal life and family crumbled around her, the epiphany she had that changed everything for her, and the importance of understanding our worth as human beings.

Motherhood is hard, and Laurie gives some great advice for those listening who may be struggling with their own motherhood journey, so get comfortable and listen in to Laurie’s message about getting unstuck and finding the life you belong to.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2U13acm

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

Dr. Whitney gets personal on this episode talking about body image, weight, and the world’s standards of health. She talks about why it’s so hard for women to have a positive body image even in the movement of body positivity and how we can help break that cycle for our kids.

For more on this episode, go to www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast.

Dr. Whitney talks with productivity expert, Brianna McKenizie, on how you can make yourself the most efficient possible (in very practical ways!) in order to get more accomplished in your day.

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/podcast

This week’s episode is brought to you by Tushbaby

Being on-the-go with your little one has never looked so cool or been so comfortable. Tushbaby is a unique, strapless baby carrier to help carry kids comfortably and stash your things conveniently, while also saving your back and saving you loads of time.

Modern mamas need modern, stylish accessories and Tushbaby has got your back (literally)! So head on over to tushbaby.com and use the code: MOMDOC to get 15% off of your carrier.

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This week, Dr. Whitney explains the “attention economy” phenomenon–why it’s so hard for all of us to pay attention to everything these days. She talks about what that looks like for working moms and how we can fight against it.

Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

This week’s episode is brought to you by Tushbaby

Being on-the-go with your little one has never looked so cool or been so comfortable. Tushbaby is a unique, strapless baby carrier to help carry kids comfortably and stash your things conveniently, while also saving your back and saving you loads of time.

Modern mamas need modern, stylish accessories and Tushbaby has got your back (literally)! So head on over to tushbaby.com and use the code: MOMDOC to get 15% off of your carrier.

Click here to get yours: www.tushbaby.com

What does it mean to put yourself at the center?

It does not mean that your life is perfect day in and day out, or that you’ll never experience mom guilt, or that you’ll love every moment of being a mom (here’s a secret: I have yet to meet a mom who does love every moment).

What it does mean is that when things are chaotic you feel grounded and secure enough within yourself that you can be your own rock and act from a place of feeling like you’re worthy to show up for.

In this episode I’m sharing why putting yourself at the center is so important, not just for you, but for everyone around you, too, and how you can begin to put yourself at the center starting right now.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/44

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Don't just survive: THRIVE!

Get your Thriving, Not Surviving Guide to reclaim joy in Motherhood and learn:

• Six powerful exercises to help you choose how to live and parent the way you want to.

• How to boldly say "yes" to things that matter and "no" to things that don't.

• How to identify intentional ways to prioritize taking care of yourself as you take care of everything else.

Grab it here!

It’s incredibly powerful when we learn to show up for our kids by being present with them in their good times and their more difficult times. Parental presence shapes who our kids become and how their brains get wired.  

• Attuning to emotions 
• Building connection 
• Providing security

Dr. Tina Payne Bryson is the co-author (with Dan Siegel) of two New York Times Best Sellers—The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline—each of which has been translated into dozens of languages, as well as The Yes Brain and The Power of Showing Up and the forthcoming Bottom Line for Baby. She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Connection, a multidisciplinary clinical practice in Southern California. Dr. Bryson keynotes conferences and conducts workshops for parents, educators, and clinicians all over the world, and she frequently consults with schools, businesses, and other organizations. An LCSW, Tina is a graduate of Baylor University with a Ph.D. from USC. The most important part of her bio, she says, is that she’s a mom to her three boys. You can learn more about Dr. Bryson at TinaBryson.com.

Website: https://www.tinabryson.com

Instagram: @tinapaynebryson

Books: The Bottom Line for Baby  | The Power of Showing Up

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Blessing Adesiyan is the Founder and CEO of Mother Honestly, a platform that supports moms looking to live their best lives in the workplace and at home and she joins me today to discuss working motherhood, guilt, and success.

We’re talking all about what mothering honestly means, why it’s important to make parenting out loud the norm, and why we need to redefine what success means. We also discuss how Mother Honestly is helping individual moms to build happier careers and happier homes (because these are not mutually exclusive!) and how they are helping organizations support mothers during this season of life to cultivate a sense of loyalty and engagement from employees.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3y55UnO

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

Dr. Whitney talks with Sascha Mayer from Mamava about her innovative business that helps support moms have a positive breastfeeding experience while they’re at the airport and many other public arenas. They also chat about how companies like this can really help make a difference in the number of women that choose to breastfeed past those first few weeks after their baby is born.

Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-this-company-is-supporting-breastfeeding-moms-while-they-travel-with-sascha-mayer

If you're looking for more support for the early stages of motherhood AND direct guidance from Dr. Whitney Casares, you've got it:

Download the Modern Mamas Club App for our daily dose of just that! Each day, you'll get bite-sized lessons on:

✸ Preparing yourself + your partner mentally: how to set realistic expectations for what life is like with a newborn, and how to create a partnership plan

✸ Gearing up your gear: the top 10 items you really need for your newborn 

✸ Breastfeeding: how to set yourself up for breastfeeding success (including finding the best pump for you, mastering how-to’s, and avoiding common pitfalls) 

✸ The first few days + weeks: what to expect in the hospital and then transitioning back to home 

✸ Newborn sleep: how to establish healthy sleep habits in a safe sleeping environment 

✸ Soothing your baby: all the tips and tricks to calm your baby including how-tos on swaddling and burping

✸ Finding a pediatrician: how to pick the perfect pediatrician for you, and what to expect at visits

✸ Getting the help you need: how to find a lactation consultant and doula

✸ Common freak-out findings: how to recognize what's normal, what's not, and signs of possible illness or infection

✸ Finding childcare: how to find and choose a childcare provider who’s best for you (interview plan included!)

Get started by downloading the App: modernmamasclub.com

Or simply search for The Modern Mamas Club App in the Apple App Store

Dr. Whitney shares the principles she's learned as a solopreneur in the health and wellness space, the failures she's faced, and the truths she wishes she would have known from the very beginning.

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For more about this episode, visit www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

In this episode, Dr. Whitney has a special guest, her youngest daughter Mireia. They talk about what it’s like to have a working mom, what it’s like to have a working mom advocate for her, how she feels it’s going in the Casares house, and Mireia even gives some feedback on Dr. Whitney’s new book, Doing It All.

Find out more at www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast.

Dr. Whitney chats with Dr. Kat Kaeni, founder of Well Mind Perinatal, about mental health issues for women who’ve had children. This important topic usually just gets attention around postpartum depression, but Dr. Whitney and Dr. Kaeni go much deeper! 

Check out more about this episode HERE.

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It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife with the Modern Mamas Club App

For such a long time, I wanted to escape my life as a working mom. It was so exhausting, and defeating, and MADDENING. 🤦🏼‍♀️ How about you? 😬

You don't want a life that you need to regularly escape from, and you also don't want a life that you need to regularly recover from.

✨Take this leap with me! There's a happy mama with happy kids that's efficient AF deep within you! Let's let her thrive in her working mama life. Be the parent, professional, and person you're meant to be. 🔥

Join the Modern Mamas Club App

You'll have 24/7 access to:

✨ Monthly Momversations

I'm sitting down with a panel of experts each month to bring you practical advice to help you improve your motherhood experience. From bestselling authors, to psychologists, therapists, and CEOs-we'll get all of your questions answered. These conversations are fueled by YOU.

✨ On-Demand Video Lessons on Parenting, Self-Care and Our Signature Centered Life Blueprint

All of my signature content via bite-sized daily activations, video lessons, and written activities on topics that will help you everyday.

✨ Daily Affirmations

Support and encouragement from our Modern Mommy Doc team straight to your device. We'll be sending you mini notes each day to help you, encourage you, or to make you giggle.

✨ Mama Community

Join busy working modern mamas just like YOU go from conflicted, burnt out, to happy and thriving.

✨ Challenges

We believe that centered mamas raise happy kids, and I'm here to guide you through that journey with our monthly challenges.Are you ready to start making progress and break those habits that have been holding you back all this time? We'll start with these challenges as baby steps toward your ultimate goals!

Install the App

Do you feel like you are drowning under a list of “to-dos” and the invisible workload that so often falls on the shoulders of women?

Eve Rodsky is a wife, mother, a Harvard graduate, and the author of Fair Play, a book that is not only shining a light on the issue of women’s unpaid labor, but also provides actionable steps to more equitably divvy up domestic responsibilities.

In this episode, Eve shares the moment of her personal reckoning and the catalyst that eventually led to Fair Play being born, how unpaid labor is an issue that transcends race, class, and even sexual identity, and reminds us that it’s not a badge of honor to have it all by doing it all.

We also discuss steps to building more equity with your partner when it comes to household responsibility, and why change starts with each of us unlearning every message about our role and value that we have been given throughout our lives.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/3iQey3J

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

Kristin Valerius, PhD, is not only a paediatric psychologist who counsels children for a variety of concerns including ADHD and anxiety, but she also has lived experience with those same diagnoses both personally and within her family. In this episode, we’re going deep into how to best support our orchid kids with ADHD and anxiety, and how to support ourselves through the process because let’s be honest: it is not easy.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/34

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

Having a new baby can be stressful when it comes to mental health but also when it comes to your physical health. This week on the podcast, we’re talking to Eryn Kirschbaum, PT, DPT, PRPC about how to take care of your pelvic floor. We’re putting it all out there, discussing hemorrhoids, urinary incontinence, constipation. You name it, we’re covering it!

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

In this episode we discuss the steps career-driven working moms can take to advoate for themselves in the workplace and to join forces with other working parents. You can find out all about the episode HERE.

We’re so excited to have Jill Castle, MS, RDN, CDN with us this week on the podcast to talk about helping our kid’s create a healthy relationship with food starting in childhood and lasting their whole lives. Jill is a registered dietitian, blogger, speaker, and child nutrition expert. She is also the coauthor of Fearless Feeding, one of my favorite parenting books of all time! We’re talking with her about picky eating, avoiding food battles, and dealing with feeding jags with a long-term, whole-heath approach. 

Find Jill:

www.jillcastle.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney has a crucial conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr about the realities of working moms and the emotional and physical burnout they’re facing, as well as what it would look like to really have an environment in a workplace where burnout wouldn’t even exist.

Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-to-stop-working-mom-burnout-before-it-starts

Need a Mama Reset? You've got it!

Try the Mama Reset Half-day Retreat (At Home) in the Modern Mamas Club App!

Explore all the topics covered during our time together:

• SELF-CARE: Why is it so important? How do you personally define it? How can you incorporate it into your life?
• GOAL-SETTING: Create a roadmap to an impactful plan made just for YOU and YOUR life
• HEALTH RITUALS: Nutrition that fuels you and movement that moves you beyond just the physical - including easy meal prep tips
• SELF-LOVE: Being kind to yourself and addressing your own needs without feeling guilty
• MINDFUL COMPASSION: Developing it for yourself, your kids, and your partner 
• MINDSET: Create inner strength and peace through meditation and self-reflection
• TIME MANAGEMENT: Do less so you can do more of what brings you joy 
• BURNOUT: It happens! Understand it, address it, and avoid it

Get it HERE: modernmamasclub.com or the Apple App Store

Dr. Whitney talks with Paige Cornetet, author of “My Dad’s Class,” about her upbringing and education around money and how it has shaped how she teaches it today. They also dive into really practical advice on how moms and families can pass on generational financial skills.

Learn more about this episode HERE.

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It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife with the Modern Mamas Club App

For such a long time, I wanted to escape my life as a working mom. It was so exhausting, and defeating, and MADDENING. 🤦🏼‍♀️ How about you? 😬

You don't want a life that you need to regularly escape from, and you also don't want a life that you need to regularly recover from.

✨Take this leap with me! There's a happy mama with happy kids that's efficient AF deep within you! Let's let her thrive in her working mama life. Be the parent, professional, and person you're meant to be. 🔥

Join the Modern Mamas Club App

You'll have 24/7 access to:

✨ Monthly Momversations

I'm sitting down with a panel of experts each month to bring you practical advice to help you improve your motherhood experience. From bestselling authors, to psychologists, therapists, and CEOs-we'll get all of your questions answered. These conversations are fueled by YOU.

✨ On-Demand Video Lessons on Parenting, Self-Care and Our Signature Centered Life Blueprint

All of my signature content via bite-sized daily activations, video lessons, and written activities on topics that will help you everyday.

✨ Daily Affirmations

Support and encouragement from our Modern Mommy Doc team straight to your device. We'll be sending you mini notes each day to help you, encourage you, or to make you giggle.

✨ Mama Community

Join busy working modern mamas just like YOU go from conflicted, burnt out, to happy and thriving.

✨ Challenges

We believe that centered mamas raise happy kids, and I'm here to guide you through that journey with our monthly challenges.Are you ready to start making progress and break those habits that have been holding you back all this time? We'll start with these challenges as baby steps toward your ultimate goals!

Install the App

There’s a saying: if mama ain’t happy, nobody is happy. One of the worst things in the world is a miserable mom - for her AND for everyone around her. 

Denise Hamilton launched WatchHerWork, a digital platform that understands that when moms are happy, they can do amazing things and is working to close the achievement gap for professional women. She also has 25 years of executive professional experience in Fortune 100 companies, small businesses, and educational institutions, and is a highly sought after speaker and coach.

In this episode, we’re talking about the struggle of working moms trying to balance work, family, and personal needs, how we can support the authentic needs of women, and why we need to stop focusing on fixing our weaknesses and instead name and own our genius.

If you struggle with trying to juggle it all and need a reminder that it’s ok to say no, this is an episode you cannot afford to miss. 

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/36CyTny

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

This week, Dr. Whitney chats with Dr. Carla Naumburg, author of You Are Not a Sh*tty Parent: How to Practice Self-Compassion and Give Yourself a Break and How to Stop Losing Your Sh*T With Your Kids. They talk about the importance of practicing self-compassion as a means to move through hard moments in life.

Connect with Carla on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/carlanaumburg/

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It’s time to reclaim your #workingmomlife with the Modern Mamas Club App

For such a long time, I wanted to escape my life as a working mom. It was so exhausting, and defeating, and MADDENING. 🤦🏼‍♀️ How about you? 😬

You don't want a life that you need to regularly escape from, and you also don't want a life that you need to regularly recover from.

✨Take this leap with me! There's a happy mama with happy kids that's efficient AF deep within you! Let's let her thrive in her working mama life. Be the parent, professional, and person you're meant to be. 🔥

Join the Modern Mamas Club App

You'll have 24/7 access to:

✨ Monthly Momversations

I'm sitting down with a panel of experts each month to bring you practical advice to help you improve your motherhood experience. From bestselling authors, to psychologists, therapists, and CEOs-we'll get all of your questions answered. These conversations are fueled by YOU.

✨ On-Demand Video Lessons on Parenting, Self-Care and Our Signature Centered Life Blueprint

All of my signature content via bite-sized daily activations, video lessons, and written activities on topics that will help you everyday.

✨ Daily Affirmations

Support and encouragement from our Modern Mommy Doc team straight to your device. We'll be sending you mini notes each day to help you, encourage you, or to make you giggle.

✨ Mama Community

Join busy working modern mamas just like YOU go from conflicted, burnt out, to happy and thriving.

✨ Challenges

We believe that centered mamas raise happy kids, and I'm here to guide you through that journey with our monthly challenges.Are you ready to start making progress and break those habits that have been holding you back all this time? We'll start with these challenges as baby steps toward your ultimate goals!

Install the App

Whether your kids are learning in-school or right beside you on the couch as you work, one thing is certain: it's all a juggling act. Dr. Whitney dives into how to handle your kids' school obligations with waaaay less guilt and waaaay more intention. Learn more about the episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-to-handle-your-kids-school-obligations-whether-they-re-in-person-or-in-distance-learning-with-less-guilt-and-more-intention

Dr. Whitney speaks with Julie King and Johana Faber, authors of How to Talk When Kids Won’t Listen. They discuss tools parents can use to communicate with their kids so that both sides feel seen and heard. They give practical tips for specific situations parents are facing right now.

Learn more about this episode here: modernmommydoc.com/how-to-talk-when-kids-wont-listen-with-authors-julie-king-and-johana-faber

For more tips and resources on Navigating Children's BIG Emotions, download the Modern Mamas Club App for our daily dose of just that! Each day, you'll get bite-sized lessons on:

✸ CARING FOR YOUR NEEDS: Starting with your needs so you can feel your best - ensuring the foundation is solid

✸ DEVELOPMENT: Understanding what’s really happening inside

✸ ATTENDING TO THE BASICS: The items we all need - sleep, nutrition, and physical activity 

✸ TEMPERAMENT AND TRIGGERS: Getting down to the specifics for your individual child 

✸ MINDFULNESS: Changing immediate reactions of high emotion to calm consideration

✸ PARENTING STYLES: Identifying your personal style 

✸ CONNECTION: Building a nurturing environment where you problem-solve collaboratively 

✸ RESILIENCE: Seven tips to make us all stronger, no matter our age 

✸ MINDSET: Using internal and external tools to diffuse your feelings of being overwhelmed and frustrated 

✸ SUCCESSFUL SYSTEMS: Create an immediate parenting philosophy that your child successfully responds to and learns from

Get started by downloading the App: modernmamasclub.com

Or simply search for The Modern Mamas Club App in the Apple App Store

Dr. Whitney chats with Dr. Heather Rhodes about all things hormones. They talk about how diet culture has forced us into extremely damaging habits, how to track your cycle in a way that tells you about your hormone picture, and why lowering your stress hormones are the first step to hormone (and overall) health. To find out more about this episode head over to: www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Looking for more Modern Mommy Doc content? Join us in our new App! Download the Modern Mamas Club App today and get:

Daily Affirmations, Exclusive Member-only Momversations with Experts, Daily Dose Guided Lessons, Monthly Challenges, Motherhood Community and more!

Check it out at www.modernmamasclub.com or in your mobile App Store.

It is just me, Whitney, today, talking about a very personal topic, but one that you can probably relate to. Two words: mom fail. With the current pandemic situation there are so many opportunities for us as moms to feel like we’re just not doing it right, or that we’re doing all of the things but none of them well. I’m sharing a personal story of my own mom fail, and talking about how so many of those moments where we feel like we fail are really just life moments, and do not define us as moms.

For show notes and more: https://www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast/33

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too.

We said we would talk about all the hard things and all the things that are hard to talk about on The Modern Mommy Doc Podcast. This week, we're really staying true to that mission. On this episode we welcome couples and sex therapist Taylor Pierce. We're talking about our sexual relationships after we've had a baby...or even a few kids.

Follow Taylor:

https://ccstpdx.com

@sextherapyforall

Resources Taylor Discusses on This Episode:

Book: Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

Finding a Therapist: AASCET

Building a Positive Relationship with Our Bodies Postpartum and Beyond: Mirror Work

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

About the Episode:

In this episode, Dr. Whitney chats with Valerie Cockerell, author of Manage Like a Mother. They discuss how, as moms, we can be (and should be) confident in our ability to lead in the workplace, because we have so much experience leading as moms and because of our “mom skills” that can absolutely be translated into “boss skills.” They also chat about how women can stand out in their workplace by using the leadership skills they’re uniquely gifted in.

Read the rest of the Shownotes

Terri Cole is the founder and owner of YoYoYogi, a family-owned yoga studio here in Portland, Oregon and now online across the world!

A business woman, yes, but a mother, grandma, and wife first and foremost. As a Mom, Terri understands that self-care is often deprioritized; however, through yoga and meditation, she has found a daily practice that fills her well and sets a foundation that allows her to generously take care of others.

Her passion in life is sharing these offerings and providing the tools for others to live their best life. 

Follow Terri on Social:

IG: @yoyoyogis | FB: @YoYoYogis

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney speaks with Gina Bulla from The Atlantic and discusses being a new working mom in the midst of a pandemic. She also tackles what the actual data shows about the effects of the pandemic on moms and their mental health. Learn more about the episode HERE: https://modernmommydoc.com/moms-really-did-have-a-harder-time-during-the-pandemic-with-gina-bulla-from-the-atlantic

About the Episode

Gabby Slome, CEO and Co-Founder of Cooper, and Dr. Whitney talk about the pressure moms feel to do parenting “right” and how unrealistic (and ultimately damaging) that is for parents and for kids. If you want to be an effective parent, it’s all about paying attention to who your individual child is and to the five major parenting “must dos:”

1. Be sensitive and responsive.

2. Model self-regulation.

3. Set limits for yourself and your kids.

4. Allow space for unrestrained skill development.

5. Support internal motivation and resilience over external motivation.

6. Develop healthy routines.

About Our Guest

Gabby is the Co-founder and CEO of Cooper, a parenting mecca offering parents (and parents to be) with the tools and resources to build their parenting muscle and become the parents they want to be. Cooper offers on demand access to leading experts in child development and likeminded parents, 24/7. Group sessions, live events/workshops and “always on” one-on-one support are spearheaded by top tier experts including PhD’s, educators and licensed clinical social workers with decades of experience. Cooper’s mission is to equip parents with more effective ways of seeing and solving parenting challenges at home.

Doing it All — Available Soon!

Pre-Order My New Book: Doing it All: STOP OVER-FUNCTIONING and Become the Mom and Person You're Meant to Be

Discover how to stop doing it all and start doing what matters with this step-by-step guide to reclaiming your life as a working mom, written by an expert in maternal and child health.

Today’s working moms are burnt out, overwhelmed, and just plain stuck. Caught amid the endless, conflicting demands of caring for their families, hustling at work, managing their households, and a million-and-one other tasks, chores, and responsibilities, it’s no wonder mom rage and mom guilt are at an all-time high. Working moms feel like they’re responsible for everything, but nothing they do matters. They are doing it all—but getting nowhere.

This is a feeling I know well. A practicing pediatrician and mother of two daughters—including one with special needs—I tried to do it all for years…until one particularly bad week brought me to her knees, and then to a revelation: I couldn’t wait years for the systems of inequality and cultural pressures women face to change, I needed a plan to fix my life now. A plan that would help me stop over-functioning, stop blaming myself, and start creating a life that was centered on me. My values, my priorities, my vision of a purposeful, aligned life. Years later, I'm living my centered life and now I want to help you do the same.

In Doing It All, I share my blueprint for achieving a centered life as a real working mom with real working mom problems. This is not about achieving a dazzling fantasy life of ease, wealth, and perfection, but a realistic life that is purposeful, organized, and aligned with your personal values. A life where you’re able to prioritize what really matters and where everything—even laundry—has its place. Work calls? Yep. Time with your kids? Absolutely. Time for yourself? A top priority (yes, you read that right!).

This has nothing to do with manifesting positive vibes. You won’t find a single affirmation here. Instead, you’ll discover a practical framework, step-by-step plan, and over forty targeted exercises, prompts, and activities to help you:

• Create a...

Are you a mom and feel like you just don’t have time to do anything?

Zibby Owens is the founder of the “Moms Don’t Have Time” franchise, author to several books, podcast host, a contributor to Good Morning America, Parents, Marie Claire, Redbook, and the New York Times online, and a mom to four children.

She joins me today to talk about what first prompted her to start the “Moms Don’t Have Time” movement and how moms today are feeling more pressure than ever to live up to unrealistic expectations.

Zibby also shares her advice for moms who are interested in pursuing a passion project but feel like they just don’t have the time - if you’re feeling the crunch of days that are forever too short, this is an episode you’ll want to tune into!

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2VNDvFj

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

When we can focus on our children’s strengths - instead of their weaknesses - we can help them to truly reach their full potential.

Dr. Sam Goldstein and Dr. Robert Brooks are the authors of Tenacity in Children, a book that provides a framework to raise resilient and happy children by nurturing the seven instincts for lifetime success. 

Listen in as we go through the seven instincts that children are born with and how we, as parents, can provide opportunities to nurture those instincts to cultivate tenacity, and ultimately success, in our children.

For show notes and more: https://bit.ly/2UDrBNv

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📣 Learn how to thrive—not just survive— as a modern mom in our NEW BOOK, The Working Mom Blueprint: Winning at Parenting Without Losing Yourself. 

You love your kids. You’re proud of your professional accomplishments. You have hobbies and friends. And you’re tired. So tired. Working moms often feel like they’re failing on many different fronts. 

But what if there was a guide to reenvisioning, reprioritizing, and restructuring to build a vibrant, intentional life? As a practicing pediatrician and mother of 2 young daughters, Dr. Whitney understands balancing family and career. She shares honest insights about her own challenges combined with her professional expertise about children of working moms—they thrive!—to create a reassuring guide to navigating modern motherhood. In this practical plan, you’ll learn to set priorities, cultivate self-care, establish an equal parenting partnership, delegate whenever appropriate, and more. With help from Dr. Whitney’s advice, it’s time to make motherhood joyful again. 🙌🙌

💞 Buy it now! 💞

Parenting is a journey filled with countless decisions, especially when it comes to encouraging our kids to try new activities and experiences. For those of us with neurodivergent children, these decisions can be even more complex.

In this episode, I share my personal experiences and challenges in helping my own child to try new activities, and offer detailed insights and actionable advice for parents facing similar challenges.

In this episode of the Modern Mommy Doc Podcast, Dr. Whitney is joined by two powerhouse OB-GYNs and co-founders of Fem.ed, Dr. Sara Twogood and Dr. Alyssa Quimby from Cedars-Sinai. Together, they tackle the often-taboo topics of sexual health, perimenopause, and the mental load women carry as they navigate motherhood and their careers. This episode breaks down important discussions around:

• The impact of perimenopause and postpartum changes on sexual health.
• How to improve communication with your partner about sex and intimacy.
• Common physical changes women experience, from vaginal dryness to irregular bleeding.
• Misconceptions around HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and who might benefit from it.
• Tips on vaginal health, including what to avoid and how to care for your body.
• The importance of having conversations about mental load, self-care, and sexual well-being with your sexual partner(s).

This week's podcast and newsletter are brought to you by Care.com. Care.com connects families with local caregivers, including nannies, babysitters, tutors, senior care providers, dog walkers, housekeepers, and more.

Go to www.modernmommydoc.com/podcast for the full show notes.

This week Dr. Whitney talks about the origins and dangers of toxic positivity and what we can do in order to flip our mindset the other way.

Find out more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

This week’s episode is brought to you by Tushbaby

Being on-the-go with your little one has never looked so cool or been so comfortable. Tushbaby is a unique, strapless baby carrier to help carry kids comfortably and stash your things conveniently, while also saving your back and saving you loads of time.

Modern mamas need modern, stylish accessories and Tushbaby has got your back (literally)! So head on over to tushbaby.com and use the code: MOMDOC to get 15% off of your carrier.

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David Hill, MD, FAAP joins us this week on the show to talk about his new book, Co-Parenting Through Separation and Divorce. Dr. Hill is a national authority on child development who consults, speaks and writes on issues related to children’s health. We take a deeper look into what kids really need during this stressful transition and how moms can make sure they're attending to their own needs during the process.

Find the Book:

Co-Parenting Through Separation and Divorce

Follow Dr. Hill:

www.doctordavidhill.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Today I welcome back Dr. Amy Stoeber to the Modern Mommy Doc podcast to talk about a subject that I've wanted to dive into: how to be a loving authoritative parent.

Dr. Amy offers up some helpful insight and information for parents on how to find balance between being firm and being kind and loving with their kids.

Dr. Amy is a licensed psychologist who sees children and families in private practice but she also is a trainer, consultant, and educator for teachers and medical practices on the topics of trauma and resilience. She provides workshops, educational conferences, and online events to train professionals on trauma, compassionate practices, and building resilience so that families and children thrive!

Previous episode with Dr. Amy: Fighting Perfectionism and How to Be a Good Enough Parent

Follow Dr. Amy

Instagram: @dr.amy.llc (https://www.instagram.com/dr.amy.llc/) 

Website: www.doctoramyllc.co

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Whitney Casares, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.

Author, The New Baby Blueprint: Caring for You and Your Little One 

Founder, Modern Mommy Doc

Social: @modernmommydoc

Email: info@modernmommydoc.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Dr. Whitney chats with Debi Yadegari from Villyge about ways that employers can support their employees through difficult life changes. They take a hard look at childcare coaching to show just what an amazing tool and advocate for parents it really is. Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/how-can-a-boss-support-working-parents-needs-for-childcare

Early motherhood was not meant to be attempted alone, in our individual homes, with only the internet and a few books to lean on for guidance. Quite the opposite: early motherhood was meant to be accomplished as part of a village, and a super duper important part of that village is someone who can support you with getting your baby to sleep and feed. Some of my favorite people in that category are doulas and specialists. I love them because they offer expert advice, but also because they are no-strings-attached helpers: they care about your well-being and the well-being of your baby, but their advice is without judgement or obligation. This week, I interview Tiffany Decker, a Mommywise Certified Sleep Coach, and the founder of Birthing Stone Doula, Seattle Sleep Trainer, and Santa Barbara Sleep Trainer. She talks about what parents need to know when it comes to newborn sleep success and about what to expect when you hire a doula. While social distancing precautions are in place, it may not be possible to have a postpartum support person come into your home, but you can work directly with them virtually as well.

Find Tiffany:

@birthingstonedoula

www.birthingstone.com

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Our online parenting programs are HERE!! In need of some extra support with straight-talk, trustworthy, digestible information to level up your parenting? We’ve got you, mama! Covering four of the most difficult areas to navigate as a modern mom, these programs are geared toward helping moms overcome the cycle of overwhelm & burnout so they can get back to enjoying motherhood. 

👉🏼Mama Reset Retreat (At Home)

👉🏼Navigating & Regulating Children's Big Emotions 

👉🏼Parenting in Partnership 

👉🏼Taking Care of You and Your Newborn

Each one is on-demand, self paced and comes with interactive journaling exercises + worksheets designed to help you create a personalized, effective plan! Sign up here.

My goal with these is to empower (and educate) you to make intentional and immediate positive shifts in your own lives & in your families’ lives too. 

P.S. 3% of all of the program proceeds go to @postpartumsupportinternational to help other mamas.

Is living a life you love just for the rich and famous, or even just for the upper middle class? Find out how your working mom life can be purposeful, energizing, and satisfying, no matter what you've faced and where you come from. You can find out all about this episode HERE: https://modernmommydoc.com/you-yes-you-deserve-a-working-mom-life-you-love

Dr. Whitney talks with Debra Isaacs Schafer on how working parents can best advocate for their children as they navigate the school system and all that comes with it.

Debra Isaacs Schafer is a long-established thought leader, subject-matter expert, advisor, coach, and speaker in the work/life integration arena with a core focus on supporting working parents with neurodiverse children. She also provides learning programs to companies and employees on the work/life realities of parents with exceptional caregiving needs, flexible work options, retention of working mothers, caregivers in the workplace, and creating a family-aligned culture.

Connect with Debra at www.debraischafer.com

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

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Learn more about this episode here: modernmommydoc.com/special-needs-working-mamas-navigating-the-school-system-with-confidence-with-debra-isaacs-schafer

Dr. Whitney talks with Dr. Madhavi Vemireddy of Cleo, a family benefits program to support all caregivers. They talk through the struggles caregivers, specifically women, face in today’s workplace, and the resources that are available to help support them.

Learn more about today’s episode HERE.

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Work with me, Dr. Whitney, via 1:1 Coaching:

I've had mama after mama ask me for 1:1 coaching sessions and, until now, the answer had to be “no.” I was working more often at my pediatrics practice, I was busy recording podcasts, I was finishing my next book...

But now, it's time.

INTRODUCING OUR NEW 1:1 COACHING SESSIONS WITH ME AT MODERN MOMMY DOC.SESSIONS FOR YOU AND WITH YOU—AND ONLY YOU—TO FOCUS ON YOUR PARTICULAR PAIN POINTS AS YOU JUGGLE WORK, AND PARTNERS, AND KIDS, AND LIFE, AND YOUR NEEDS.

If you're tired of snapping at your kids and being constantly angry with your partner, feeling like a failure, and trying to will yourself to be better the next time around, I've got you.

LET ME SHOW YOU A BETTER WAY.

Dr. Whitney chats with Alexandra Scherzer, parenting guide and Co-Founder of Wise Parenting, about how parents can raise their kids from a different perspective. They discuss new-parent overwhelm as well as what it looks like to parent based on who your child is and what your parenting abilities are.

Learn more about this episode HERE: modernmommydoc.com/podcast

Join us in the Modern Mamas Club and get Dr. Whitney's content at your fingertips: www.modernmamasclub.com

This week’s episode is brought to you by Tushbaby

Being on-the-go with your little one has never looked so cool or been so comfortable. Tushbaby is a unique, strapless baby carrier to help carry kids comfortably and stash your things conveniently, while also saving your back and saving you loads of time.

Modern mamas need modern, stylish accessories and Tushbaby has got your back (literally)! So head on over to tushbaby.com and use the code: MOMDOC to get 15% off of your carrier.

Click here to get yours: www.tushbaby.com

Connect with Alexandra:

IG: @wiseparentingtoday

Clubhouse: @alexcherzer

www.thewiseparentingacademy.com

www.linkedin.com/company/wise-parenting