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De-Stress Your Life: Great Podcasts on Parental Health and Wellbeing

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De Stress Your Life Great Podcasts on Parental Health and Wellbeing

It’s always a great occasion to consider what you can do to make your life as stress-free as possible. How about downloading a parenting podcast or two? The wonderful thing about podcasts is that you can listen to them whenever you have some time, including when you’re doing other things. Here are some of the very best parenting podcasts on mental health and wellbeing. Listen up: they offer lots of advice on how to de-stress your life.

It’s always a great occasion to consider what you can do to make your life as stress-free as possible. How about downloading a parenting podcast or two? The wonderful thing about podcasts is that you can listen to them whenever you have some time, including when you’re doing other things. Here are some of the very best parenting podcasts on mental health and wellbeing. Listen up: they offer lots
of advice on how to de-stress your life.

A Little Easier

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Hosted by Kendra Wilde, a mom of three with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, A Little Easier is a long-running podcast on how parents can stay more resilient and less stressed when their kids are faced with behavioral, emotional, learning, or medical challenges. Through interviews with a wide range of experts and ordinary parents whose kids experience various challenges, Kendra covers topics like the importance of creating a community of support, engaging in self-care, and being honest about one’s emotional journey as a parent.

HERSelf

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Unlike A Little Easier, which focuses explicitly on how to keep calm when raising kids with various challenges, HERSelf explores more broadly how parents can de-stress their lives. It was created by Abby Green and Amy Kiefer, two mothers who, after long careers in sales and nursing, respectively, decided to share their life experiences (they each have three kids). Recent topics include the importance of asking for what you need, how to have a satisfying relationship with your partner, and how to love your kids without losing yourself in the process.

Holding Space

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Holding Space is the brainchild of Dr. Cassidy Freitas, a licensed therapist with a doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Freitas draws heavily from her own, clinical experience in her podcast which examines topics such as the importance of letting go of perfectionism and maintaining a strong work/life balance. She’s a highly-regarded expert on mental health and wellbeing and is a frequent guest on other popular parenting podcasts, including Momwell (mentioned below). She also offers online courses for expectant and newly-minted parents.

Momwell

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Erica Djossa, a practicing psychotherapist who specializes in women’s mental health, created Momwell (originally called Happy As A Mother) to reach a wider audience of women. Her podcast explores such issues as how to share parenting responsibilities with your partner and how to engage in peaceful conflict-resolution. Like the hosts of HERSelf and Holding Space, Erica also offers online courses and workshops on questions like how to prepare emotionally to go back to work after pregnancy and how to create a smooth transition to child care.

The Motherly Podcast

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Elizabeth Tenety, a mom of five and one of the co-founders of Motherly, the well-known parenting site, is the creator and host of The Motherly Podcast. Aside from interviews with experts from various fields, this podcast includes conversations with dozens of mothers on the strategies they use to keep their lives as stress-free as possible. The podcast also has interviews with prominent people from the world of politics and entertainment, like Valerie Jarrett (former senior advisor to President Obama), Christy Turlington Burns, and Kristen Bell.

The SelfWork Podcast

(Available at: Apple, Audible, Spotify)
Like Dr. Freitas of Holding Space, Dr. Margaret Robinson Rutherford draws heavily on her extensive experience as a clinical experience on her podcast, The SelfWork Podcast (she’s been practicing for more than 30 years). As an expert herself, the podcast resembles more a conversation between equals than interviews. Recent themes include emotional self-regulation and the importance of making and maintaining close friendships. One of Dr. Rutherford’s central points is that mental health and well-being require knowing and satisfying your own needs.


Tanni Haas, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders at the City University of New York – Brooklyn College.

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