This week is another episode of the Healthy Aging Series, and this time Ashleigh and Beth are diving into motherhood, a deeply personal and lifechanging event. They discuss the ways motherhood changed them (and the ways they have stayed the same), the experience of being "older" mothers, the balance of caring for children and aging parents, managing your kids' hormonal shifts at the same time as their own, and much more. See timestamps below.
And listeners learned about the NEW program from Muscle Science for Women: The Fit Pregnancy Specialization program! There has been a slight delay in launch, but if you want to be the first to gain access to the program (and our early bird discount) you can email and let us know at musclescience4women@gmail.com
The whole Healthy Aging Series can be found on Ashleigh's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@musclemaven
If you're interested in listening to Ashleigh's episode all about her first pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience, you can listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FHQRW8LMDEXt2lLUgpLVz?si=eb5dab46d9ba4e6b
If you have comments, feedback, or questions please send them to musclescience4women@gmail.com.
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Learn more about the hosts at rgfit.com and ashleighvanhouten.com
Timestamps:
7:00: Things that have changed about us since motherhood, if anything
18:00: Our experiences being “older” mothers
27:00: Our decision-making process to have kids (and how many to have)
36:00: Differences in parenting expectations with different generations
40:30: Managing your own hormonal changes as well as your children's
45:00: How we talk about our bodies and hormones, and how that impacts the way women feel about themselves
47:45: Parenting while also helping aging parents
53:00: The sometimes fraught relationship between mothers and daughters
1:01:00: Balancing how to love your kids equally but engage with them differently according to their personalities
1:05: How the parenting dynamic shifts as both you and kids age
1:09: Combatting losing your sense of self in motherhood
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