As Mother’s Day approaches, I find myself reflecting even more deeply on the women who shaped us—especially the woman who shaped me: my mother. Through hosting the About Your Mother podcast and writing my memoir, Both Sides of Then, I’ve learned that Mother’s Day isn’t just about celebration—it’s also about reflection, curiosity, and connection. At…

Mothering is hard, but we don’t want to admit that there is pain in everyday mothering. Why is that? Confessing to the dark moments of mothering keeps us from living up to the high bar of perfection that we–and society–has asked of mothers. In this episode, I interview Dr. Margo Lowy, a psychotherapist and the…

Is your relationship with money inherited? What if, when it came to your finances, you mothered yourself? In this episode of About Your Mother, personal finance expert Elizabeth Husserl shares the radical redefinition of wealth that we all need to hear. Elizabeth is the author of The Power of Enough, which she dedicated to her…

 What if you wrote something, something that was true and significant to you, and those words launched a media attack of shame and judgment that rendered you nearly silent – how would you feel? What would you do?  Melissa Petro is a writer, a mom, and a wife. Her book, Shame on You, How to Be…

 Is there hope in loss? Yes. Absolutely. My conversation with copywriter turned novelist JJ Elliot is an exploration of her experience losing her mom to suicide, then having that open doors to her helping others. Subconsciously, the loss of her mom led to her novel about a group of women who lose a friend by…

For nearly three years, I’ve been sharing stories of survival, hope, and love launched from the word mother, a ubiquitous term that is so deeply rooted in all of our becomings. This universal topic, the influence our mother’s story has on our own life, has caught on with so many, and in many ways, this…