You, The Mother

You, The Mother

You, The Mother is a podcast dedicated to supporting, empowering, and connecting all parents in all seasons of parenthood. I’m Abbey Williams, I began my motherhood journey as a young single mom, before the era of parenting gurus being at your fingertips, online parenting groups, and before most of my peers. Now, 12 years later, I’m a married mom of four raising my blended family and offering support, empowerment, and connection on this platform for thousands of other parents to feel a little less alone. Join in the community over on Instagram @youthemother and www.youthemother.com

Episodes

February 27, 2024 40 mins
This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Saru Bala! Dr. Saru is a naturopathic doctor specializing in women’s hormonal health. She focuses on heavy periods, PMS, and period pain and has helped 1000s of women get their confidence in their periods back with natural tools and simple changes. She shares with us how health doesn’t have to be all encompassing and overwhelming, and how we can make small changes to our ...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Judith Joseph! Dr. Judith is a board certified psychiatrist who is conducting the first of its kind research study in High Functioning Depression in her laboratories. She talks with us about what a dysfunctional family system is, how was can gain sight and understanding regarding our parents limitations, and how dysfunctional family systems play a role in our mental healt...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Heather Chauvin! Heather is a leadership coach who helps ‘successful’ women courageously and authentically live, work, and parent on their own terms. She walks us through the power of feeling good, getting clear about how we want to feel, and what steps we can take to get there! Heather talks about why it’s hard for women to care for themselves and how we can reconnect with o...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Kristin Svets! Kristin is a is a multi-passionate life coach, author, meditation teacher, and sound bath healer. She facilitates restoration, healing, and empowerment for high-achieving women so that they can bridge the gap between outer success and inner peace. As a mom to two boys in college, she is also passionate about empowering moms through the stage of kids flying the ...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Jessica Procini! Jessica is the founder and leader of Escape from Emotional Eating, a unique process grounded in a decade of research, a background in the Psychology of Eating, and transformational coaching methods. Jessica shares her own personal journey and experience, being frustrated in therapy and finally getting to the root of her emotional eating. She walks us through ...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Amy Tanzillo! Amy Tanzillo is a breastfeeding expert who helps expectant and new moms feel knowledgable and empowered during the early months of breastfeeding. Amy walks us through the fundamentals of breastfeeding and how we can master them! From proper latch, supply, and everything in between Amy provides us the confidence to breastfeed with ease. Are you overwhelmed with y...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Sharon Mazel! Sharon is an internationally recognized parenting and pregnancy expert, author, journalist, speaker, parenting coach, and mom of 4. Sharon walks us through what we can expect during our baby’s first year of life. From feedings to sleep and more, Sharon helps us understand what choices we can make during this time and how to make the decisions that are best for o...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Sadé Ferrier, LMFT! Sadé is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Sadé walks us through navigating our intimacy through the parenting years. She normalizes some of the dips in libido and challenges individuals have during these years. She provides insight into how to have conversations with our partners and what to do when our partners won’t have the conversations. Does i...
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November 13, 2023 34 mins
This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Ann Garcia! Ann has helped thousands of families save millions of dollars on college. Not only is she a certified financial planner and author of How to Pay for College, she’s also a parent of twins who just graduated from college debt-free, so her expertise goes beyond 529s and the FAFSA to the emotional components of helping your child set and achieve their dreams. Ann shar...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Tracy Dalgleish! Dr. Tracy is a clinical psychologist and relationship expert who is on a mission to help couples break old relationship cycles and find joy in their relationships again. She talks to us about why unfair labor division creates resentment and what we can do to fix it. We all know how heavy the mental load of motherhood is and the long to-do list it feels li...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Dianna Dixon! Dr. Dianna is a Doctor of Public Administration, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, Postpartum Doula, Certified Life Coach, and Master Certified Life Coach with a focus on postpartum families. She created Pump with Purpose a global lactation and postpartum private practice servicing the postpartum community across the worl...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Cari Fund! Cari comes to share how we can break the cycle of toxic parenting. She believes that as parents, we are all humans who make mistakes, but the important thing is that develop self-awareness and the impulse to do better. Cari and Abbey get vulnerable about their own journey to break the cycle of toxic parenting, how they have navigated talking about estrangement with...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Andrea Herbert! Andrea is a mom of 3, entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of Gold Ivy Health Co. Andrea gives insight into how we can maintain our identity throughout motherhood and prioritize self-care. She shares the biggest mistakes moms make when it comes to self-care and the absolute musts for maintaining our individual identity. In a busy world with lots of competing expectati...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Michelle Felder, LCSW, MA! Michelle is a psychotherapist, parenting coach, and the Founder + CEO of Parenting Pathfinders. Michelle helps us unpack why we stress out over things that “should” make us feel happy. So many of us struggle with feelings of happiness and being uncomfortable in happy moments. Michelle helps us reframe some of these moments and gain tools to redirect...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Leslie Cohen-Rubury! Leslie is a licensed clinical social worker with a Masters in Social Work as well as a Masters in Special Education. Leslie shares with us how we can model being a responsible parent in order to raise responsible children. She touches on how to have conversations with your child, how and when to share our emotions with our children, and how to be a pillar...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Alli Williams! Alli is the Founder and CEO of FinanciALLI Focused! Alli shares with us what to do when one partner makes more money, has more debt, or has more saved. She helps us navigate financial inequality within our marriage. How can we get on the same page with our partner about money? Let’s talk about it! ——————————————— You can find Alli Williams: www.financiallifocu...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Dr. Morgan Cutlip! Dr. Morgan is a psychotherapist, relationship expert, and author of ‘Love Your Kids without Losing Yourself.’ Dr. Morgan talks about how we can mom ourselves alongside raising our children. She provides insight into how we can prevent burnout, improve communication in your home, and rid yourself of mom-guilt. Dr. Morgan calls out the myth of balance and how...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey kicks off season 6 by welcoming Chasity Holcomb! Chasity is a wife, mother, Trauma Therapist, Coach and Founder of Momfully You. After helping hundreds of clients heal from their childhood wounds, she’s on a mission to help high-achieving moms end perfectionism by healing their childhood wounds. Her biggest belief - generations shift when moms heal. In this episode Chasity and Abbey b...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Mary Van Geffen! Mary is the international parenting coach for moms of Spicy OnesTM️. She helps people who are highly competent in life but overwhelmed by motherhood to lean into the discipline of staying calm and cultivating warmth and tenderness all while trying to wrangle fiery future CEOs. Often this requires serious skill-building and the balm of self-compassion. She wal...
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This week on the You, The Mother Podcast, Abbey welcomes Joe and Mell Hashey from the Strong Family Project Podcast! Joe and Mell have formulated what they call the “Strong Family Path,” which involves 7 elements that help us raise confident, independent, and resilient children. They walk us through how they focus on goal setting and accountability, morning routines, family dinners and meeting, and evening debriefs. They help guide...
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