Mama Mindset® Podcast

About Mama Mindset® Podcast

Tune in for original unedited Mama Mindset life chats with Mamas I love. Infused with aloha, humor and whimsy + marinated in the raw, real, vulnerable and authentic.

Publisher

Dr. Anik Cockroft

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2022

Latest episode

7 Apr 2022

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

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   7 Apr 2022

   Episode #14: Your Garden of Growth

   Mama Mindset® Podcast #14: Your Garden of Growth Video Version: https://youtu.be/rr2J0cbhJXc (https://youtu.be/rr2J0cbhJXc) From my lei po'o (aka flower crown) to yours. Today, I am shining out wearing a lei po'o I made the other day with friends. Literally I am smiling out from the soul because my vision that illustrates the canvas and landscape of my ideal career- would be to wear a flower crown and scrubs. Healer and gardener. Nature and nurture. All of it juxtaposed. And that is exactly what adorned my physical body today. From a spiritual place, may this episode be a nourishing space for your beautiful, vibrant, thriving, creative, colorful and innovative soul. What are the dreams that have been divinely dropped into your soul? Do you believe that now is the time to nurture them, to call upon your inner gardener and that transcending connection that you have to Mother Earth.... to all that grows and is green and inspires and gives life?! You are safe to rise, Mama. You are safe to dream all the dreams and watch and cultivate the magic of your manifestations in the soil of your soul. The world will benefit from what you will bring to life when you tune into your Mamatuition, the momentum building within you, the courage rising, the bravery starting to peek through the soil. You are meant to thrive in this season. What if everything was always working out for your highest good? Even, and especially in the seasons of adversity? Are you willing to be the most influential person in your life, guarding and placing protective energy over the soul that is growing and sowing the seeds of the desires of your heart? Choosing to move your body in a way that feels reverent, be a human BEING in choice moments over a human DOING (which we are DOers all the livelong day (and night)), to experience the vibrancy of all the senses that delight you in your life, to claim the intersection of your experiences, your expertise and who you are as a human/visionary/artist/woman/mother.... this vibrancy is waiting to burst forth into bloom. I'm here to make flower crowns with you, polish them with a little water and hydration, and I'll also shine and bedazzle your crown if that is more aligned with your inner symphony as well. Turn up the volume on the song of your life and tend to that soul soil. Let me know how it GROWS! - Anik

2. 

   5 Apr 2022

   Episode #13: Sacred Spirituality

   Mama Mindset® Podcast #13: Sacred Spirituality Video Version: https://youtu.be/apE6fK3Gg8A In this episode, I share my sense of spirituality and how it is at the core of who I am, how I show up, and how this season of surrender in my life has led to the creation of Mama Mindset®. Spirituality is really a dimension of myself I've held sacred and kept close over the years and feels inextricably woven into my core values. With the growing Mamamentum I feel within Mama Mindset®, it felt vulnerable and aligned with the authenticity I desire to convey to share my spirituality with you. Holding space for my own spirituality as well as yours and what is meaningful, transcending and vertically aligning for you is a concept that has always resonated with who I am as a human. To your spirituality and mine, validating one another, holding space and meeting in the sacred spirituality that Motherhood gifts us all. - Anik

3. 

   31 Mar 2022

   Episode #12: My Path to Medicine

   Mama Mindset® Podcast #Episode 12: My Path to Medicine Video Version: https://youtu.be/7TOP0YhG7P8 Doctor's Day + Me For Doctor's Day (March 30) this year, I take a life chat talk down memory lane at the path that led me to being a Doctor. It was a long and arduous journey that required every bit of my resolve, focus, determination and grit. There was a lot of sacrifice and "missed" life events involved. I always adored medicine and felt like it was an eternal privilege to get to learn the language of medicine and be entrusted to care for patients. From the time I received my acceptance letter to medical school (felt like I got my long awaited letter to Hogwarts), to graduating medical school 4 years later, Pediatric Residency 3 years after that and Sports Medicine Fellowship an additional year after that... my dream job was within my grasp. Or was it my dream job?! Tune in to hear how I leaned in to my genius zone, summoned the courage to pursue where I really felt at home and what I really felt aligned with, how I tapped into my core values and formed Mama Mindset® out of my role as a Physician and Healer, and innate gifts as an empath, artist and visionary. I sit here today feeling more of a Doctor than ever, more reverent of my innate gifts and how those weave together as a Doctor and Doula of Mamas- Moula as I like to say. I'm claiming the 13 years after college and the grit and grace it took to land the title of Dr. Anik Cockroft. It took until the 25th grade for me, and I'm a lifelong learner. I'm here learning beside you in life, love, Mothering, artistry, creativity and innovation. The healer in me sees the healer in you! Polishing my crown and white coat today with this wonderful reminiscent road. Thanks for celebrating Doctor's Day with me. To all of the colleagues I had the honor of going through medical school with, persevering through Residency + Fellowship with, all of my mentors in medicine who invested in my passion to care and serve others through medicine... I am eternally grateful. To all of the Physicians serving globally, deepest gratitude for pursuing your passion to serve, heal, and cultivating your skill and empathy to make this world a more compassionate place. - Dr. Anik

4. 

   29 Mar 2022

   Episode #11: Tuning into Your "Too Much"

   Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #11: Tuning into Your "Too Much" Video Version: https://youtu.be/Dy_32J9-mGY (https://youtu.be/Dy_32J9-mGY) In this episode of Mama Mindset, we hit the spiritual gym (as per always) for some serious reps of: - Tuning into the "too much" statements that you've likely heard in your life - Too assertive, too passive, too loud, too quiet, too sensitive, too dramatic, too big, too small, too bossy, too nice... - - What have we allowed these statements to mean? - For me, I've often allowed them to mean that part of me was to be muted or minimized, or it was dangerous to display. The people pleaser inherent in me as a little girl-teenager- young woman was eager to stay within the lanes of what was socially acceptable and so these words often hit me and I allowed them to carry significant weight. - What if your "too much" was actually an invitation into your superpower, your intuition, what makes you a strong and uniquely thriving human? - What would happen if you explored these "too much" aspects of yourself, and you validated them? - In this episode, I offer some ways to cultivate radical compassion for yourself and those who have uttered these statements to you. You can likely recall where/when/whom uttered them as they usually have a significant impact on your life. - What if you were always safe within the container of your own emotional neutrality? At the base of your own tree and feminine energy with those divine roots that ground you and support you and are immovable and unshakable. And you not only believed but chose to freely live into your desire to express your "too much!"? - That living in flow and fascination, getting curious about your "too much" is your ticket forward, your vulnerability and your inner artist waiting to be unleashed! - You are safe to live into your "too much" and I'm so excited to see this version of yourself flourish and thrive. - Our collective "too much" is an empowering, empathic, healing force that allows us to remain suspended in this spiritual gym and sacred sisterhood. - I'm so glad you chose yourself today/tonight when and wherever this is landing upon your soul.... and it is my sincere desire that this choice to look into the pond of self reflection has given you the Mamamentum to validate all aspects of you who were, who you are, and who you are aligning with in future versions of yourself. - You are in harmony, you are in your element and you are safe to rise! - More of your "too much" please! - Turn up the volume on the soundtrack of your life to the tune of your "too much!" There is MUSIC + MAGIC in there.... I feel compelled to offer that! - Aloha Mama! - And yes, for whatever reasons the spiritual gym movement medicine workout in me felt like typing this out in bulleted form was most honoring. - I'm owning my "too sensitive" and "too complex" and "too nice" and "too studious" and "too selfish" comments that have landed and now are songs on repeat at my spiritual gym. I've got the volume turned up and I am belting out in song and letting my voice be heard.... even if it is a solo concert for one! - Anik

5. 

   28 Mar 2022

   Episode #10: Releasing the To-Do List

   Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #10: Releasing the To-Do List Video Version: https://youtu.be/rE62uiy7fro (https://youtu.be/ZSv_YMHHgp0) Whoo- that was fun! I was on my Mama PULPIT today 👏 Here she blows! 🐳 🎙 Aloha Mama! Today in full disclosure, I came on to our life chat fatigued and feeling physically tired. I've been pouring a lot of energy into creating and medical pursuits lately. I've chosen them and although it's fulfilling and something that I'm passionate about, I've been trading sleep as medicine for these sacred pockets of productivity lately. In this life chat, I share some raw thoughts on how we can protect our energy, lovingly challenge the way we tend to measure our worth through to-do lists, and the seductive and yet unfulfilling path we often take of being "busy" which we allow to dominate the landscape of our lives. What if you started playing around with deleting your to-do list? With having FAITH that you can choose not to force things, that you will accomplish whatever it is you decide is honoring of your time and energy. With radical compassion, can you evaluate the various spheres of your life: physical, emotional/mental, spiritual, intellectual/occupational, relational/social, financial to see where you feel fatigued? You are not one thing, but many. Woman. Mama. Creative. Visionary. Healer in your own home. Artist. Dreamer. You are not "too much." You are not "too emotional." You do not have "one role." You are a lot. And you are in good company here. I'll polish your crown and place it right back on your capable head. You have the capacity to move from your zone of genius into your zone of excellence. These concepts of Zone of Excellence and Zone of Genius are based on the book The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. I share how former versions of me felt when confronted with the comment, "You look tired today." For me it was a such a deflating statement, and ultimately one I allowed to mean I had failed in some way of showing up poised and polished, no matter how I might have been feeling. Ultimately, I didn't feel emotionally safe at the time to allow someone else into the fatigue I was feeling, because I wasn't even validating it for myself during that chapter. During my time in rigorous clinical medicine working 90 hour workweeks and 28 hour shifts without sleep, I did not allow fatigue. I felt this was dangerous and wanted to give my patients and their families every ounce of my intellect, compassion and calling to serve within medicine. While this is honorable on some levels and I certainly can claim that I practiced medicine in a high level way and delivered exceptional care, this was not a sustainable way for me to live. And while it allowed me to perform clinically, for me it suppressed my inner artist and creative. Because I wasn't carving out space to validate myself in a meaningful, vulnerable way. This version of me was all about her to-do lists and the grind and accomplishing whatever was in front of me next. I've now pivoted and offer for all of you to do this in your own reverent way, from this expansive space within Mama Mindset®. The current version of myself would have compassion and expansive space for however I'm feeling, and own it, and if faced with the "You look tired" comment, would come from a completely different stratosphere of neutrality and curiosity and fascination. I wouldn't make it mean anything more than a comment floated to me and one I could examine for myself in my own pond of self reflection. So today, I am feeling tired. I claim that. And it's okay. I know how I've been spending my energy. I've chosen the various creative pursuits in writing, creating Mama Mindset® content, playing with my babies, reading, moving my body, and dreaming (day dreaming as well as some super interesting night time dreaming as well haha). Curious, do you keep a dream journal? I have intermittently done that, but not lately. Based on the caliber and colors of my dreams lately, these are worth writing down, so I may choose to bust out the dream journal again. I believe our dreams (day dreams, night dreams, all the time dreams) are a portal into a part of our conscience that is there to serve us, and to prosper us. In evaluating and claiming your fatigue, what are ways you can place protective energy around yourself, pivot to a place where you have FAITH in yourself over forcing to get things done? Can you play around and get curious about shifting from subscribing to a "busy" lifestyle, to one where you drop the fear associated with "missing" or "forgetting" something. What if you could never fail, only always learn? I feel compelled to offer that we often come from a place of fear and massive limiting beliefs centered around lack and scarcity when we live for our to-do lists and we allow more anxiety than is healthy into our emotional and creative space which are ultimately meant to be fun and in flow, constantly curious and in fascination. Lean ever more into that Mamatuition, Mama. You are safe to rise! And safe to ditch your to-do list if it isn't serving you anymore. From my today/tonight tired soul to yours. What would happen, what space would open up for you and your creative genius if you said, "Bye, girl, Bye" ✌🏼😘 to your To-Do list?! I'm curious! - Anik

6. 

   24 Mar 2022

   Episode #9: Daughter, Water, Trees

   Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #9: Daughter, Water, Trees Video Version: https://youtu.be/Lxzho2w6wRY Daughter. Born with divine feminine energy. Water. Refreshing and life giving. Trees. Majestic and a place of simultaneous strength and solace. In this special and sacred episode of the Mama Mindset® podcast, I got emotional in the most nourishing way honoring a book that touched the soil of my soul. It nurtured me in a serendipitous moment, and it is my prayer that it splashes you with the honor it is to celebrate you, fellow daughter. I feel this story is a beautiful depiction of one man's courage to change the narrative of a small village in India. To pivot from the silence, shame and fear that often met families when they welcomed a daughter.... to a place of celebration, strength and connection with nature. The book is called 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl by Rina Singh and gorgeously illustrated by Marianne Ferrer. These two women brought to life the story of a boy named Sundar... who grew up to become a man of prominence in his village, elected as sarpanch, or village head. Sundar Paliwal who chose to lean into the love and connection he had with two significant women in his life- his mother and daughter, both of whom he had tragically lost.... and to channel that love and grief into life and nurturing and ultimately honoring and allowing for new life to thrive. Trees reminded him of his mother and walks he had with her to the well to get water as a young boy. He cherished this time alone with her, and was filled with awe watching her grace in balancing the water pot on her head and later filled with grief when she died after being bitten by a poisonous snake. When his daughter tragically died of dehydration, after his initial period of acute mourning, he planted trees in her honor. And then, looking at 3 parallel lines he had written on the ground with a stick for 3 things that stood out in his mind: daughter, water, trees- he saw the number 111. As the sarpach or village head, he proposed and planted the idea that honoring girls was the way forward. That for every daughter born to the village, 111 trees be planted in her honor. This thought was radical at the time and resistance was strong in the beginning. But as the idea began to take root, the families began planting 111 for every new daughter. The trees grew as did the girls. The once barren, arid and devoid landscape in this village began to flourish and thrive. Water was more abundant. Poverty and hunger improved. Women of the village tended to aloe vera plants which served as a natural termite repellent to ensure the health of the trees. From this and their natural innovation, they made products out of aloe vera and established a livelihood of their own for the first time. The villagers committed to raising their daughters with the opportunity to get an education and not to be married before age 18. The girls and women of the village tie prayer and sacred threads to the trees at the end of every summer as a sacred act of the symbolism of their bond and their mutual ability to grow, prosper and thrive. Today, the village still honors the birth of a daughter with the planting of 111 trees. In 2007, the Indian government honored the village of Piplantri with the President's Award for being a model village. I imagine a visit to this village one day- to see the mango, papaya, neem, sheesham and amla trees along the roads and plentiful on the hillsides. Their beauty evident. Their brilliance and wisdom a source of life and restoration for the village and family. Their strength celebrated. Their life giving abilities on display. Just like the daughters who inspired them. May their roots grow ever deeper. May their brilliance and beauty be ever on display. Celebrated. Honored. A gift. A life giving gift. Born to thrive. This profoundly powerful story moved me to the roots of my own soul. Daughter. Water. Trees. This Indian village and its harmony with nature an invitation to all of our connection. Daughters: To be celebrated. Water: Nourishing. Nurturing. Hydrating. Fluid. Flowing. Steady. Trees: Strength. Home. Flexibility. Shade. Solace. Giving. Living. Harmony. Please join me in this storytelling session and this opportunity to honor the Daughter in you. The elements of water and tree that flourish in your soul. Trees evoke feelings of safety and harmony with nature. They persevere through the seasons. We look to them as signs of change and also constant. They bend, and may be broken, but their roots remain planted. They nourish all that is around them. They provide a home and shade, places to imagine, branches to swing and climb and jump and leap. Women are trees in so many ways. In this episode, I share how I've always resonated in my daydreams with a weeping willow tree, planted by a glistening moving river, with deep roots and a mystical, whimsical room for reading in the shade of the growth that went from the tree to the ground. I can still drop into this daydream and honor the creative and inner child within me. Growing up in Central Florida, I played and climbed the citrus trees near my childhood home, listened for the wild peacocks and sampled the supremely sour and amazing fruit. My sister and I had many carefree days among these trees. Two daughters. And the cypress trees that lined the shore of the lake, the magnificent splendor in them, bejeweled with Spanish moss hanging lazily down like beautiful necklaces draped so perfectly. Those cypress trees, and their knobby knees I tripped over many times hiding in the grass, captivated me and still do. The oak trees lining the brick streets, I never tired of driving along them, walking along them as a young girl and then teenage driver with her newfound freedom. And now, here in Hawai'i, I imagine the palm trees dancing hula just for me, and I marvel at their flexibility and choice to be in harmony with the trade winds and breezes that blow. There are two palm trees from Hana planted in my neighborhood that mesmorize me with their daily hula dance. What tree do you resonate with? I imagine us standing in all of our diversity and strength as a grove of trees. Daughters. Connected to water at our source, and the lives we nourish. Trees. Together. A forest of shade and solace, of strength and solidarity. Deepest gratitude to Rina Singh + Marianne Ferrer for the gift of this book and providing endless inspiration to the soil of my soul. And to Sundar Paliwal for leaning into his genius zone to honor the women who had been these things to him- and to allow nature and his neurons to harmonize with 111 for Daughter, Water, Trees. And how the trees growing in his once dusty village have brought life, celebration + inspiration of Daughters to a deeply rooted reverence everywhere. Mamas, I see you. I celebrate you. Daughter. Water. Trees. -Anik Book Inspiration 111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl By: Rina Singh Illustrated By: Marianne Ferrer Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History By: Vashti Harrison

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   22 Mar 2022

   Episode #8 - Part 2: Claiming the Trauma of Your Birth Story

   Mama Mindset® Podcast #8 - Part 2: Claiming the Trauma of Your Birth Story Video Version: https://youtu.be/le3ucw-X_iY (https://youtu.be/le3ucw-X_iY) Real. Raw. A lot raw. I'm in full vulnerability and 10 cm dilated with genuine postpartum details from my own birth story of becoming a Mama. In all it's beauty, in all of its trauma. I share wearing my crown as a Queen holding my newborn baby girl and also the trauma of that first postpartum poop on my porcelain throne at home... and what I wish I would have known to prevent some of the pain that I felt feeling like I was not ruling my kingdom that day. The radical kindness and compassion we are invited to show ourselves through revisitng in intricate detail the landscape of the story of our births- in the duality of birthing a newborn human miracle into this realm, as well as the rebirth of ourselves as an upleveled version of our former selves- still with all of the Queen qualities that make us powerful as women, creatives, visionaries, artists, humans, and now as Mamas. The jewels that we wear and the grace that we embody in those hospital gowns and postpartum granny panties are exquisite. We often minimize our own traumas, and in doing so deny ourselves the opportunity to experience our birth stories in all of their real, raw, vivid, and traumatic glory. You are safe to rise. You are safe to claim your story and the trauma that unfolded for you, your body, your baby. Trauma was divinely designed to be a part of the birth process. As a Pediatrician, I have had the sacred privilege of watching the transcending power of the trauma and how that aids and empowers baby to adjust to extrauterine life. Trauma is a necessary part of learning to thrive. Trauma for Mamas can often leave us victims of pieces of our story that are unresolved, deemed too "painful" and so we tuck them away. What if you nurtured yourself in reverent compassion through the duration of your birth story to see the brilliance, the bravery, the capacity and the transformational energy that you embraced and that is there to guide you?! I hold you so sacred. Your story. Your pain. Your trauma. And your triumph. I see you. I validate you. And I'll forever raise my glass of water or limeade it was for me (loved this postpartum haha) mixed with Miralax to keep the postpartum constipation at bay. You are magnificent. I'm here to polish your crown and set it back upon your capable head. Ruling your kingdom, Queen. And safe to show herself mercy for all the ways her birth story wasn't within her control, and how she chose to claim it all in its mess and majesty. With love and deep aloha. From my birth story (ies) to yours! Dilated with Desire for you to be in Divinely inspired Vertical Alignment with your Mamatuition and your Destiny to see your story for the power it holds. All of it. All of you. P.S. When I said #9 in the beginning, I meant #8 haha. Already stoked for the next life chat. - Anik

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   18 Mar 2022

   Episode #7 (Part 1): Be Kind, Rewind... Owning the Trauma of Our Birth Story

   Mama Mindset® Episode #7: (Part 1): Be Kind, Rewind... Owning the Trauma of Our Birth Stories Video Version: https://youtu.be/AgC7AMAg9Zo (https://youtu.be/AgC7AMAg9Zo) What a fun life chat latte! My actual chai tea latte might be super cold IRL (in real life- I don't have a ton of hashtagy worthy acronyms in my repertoire, but that is one of them that I claim).... I can feel the empowerment from the spiritual gym of a workout that was life chatting this episode. 
It all started when I was doing a post ride meditation after hopping off the Peloton tonight after a fun St. Patrick's Day Ride (St. Paddy's with the d's I learned it is for all the Irish Mamas out there). Being reverent with my body in the form of cooling down, stretching, and most recently landscaping a post workout meditation into my "workout regimen" is new and feels pretty foreign. But I'm loving it. During this kindness meditation, I felt led and compelled to explore that I am choosing to be kind with myself. And how exploring sadness and trauma that I have endured in my life is a radical form of kindness and compassion. I, like you perhaps, have tended to minimize traumas in my life, often comparing them and then deeming them "not worthy" and not allowing the space to see, sense, hear, experience what my emotions are trying to teach me. Who remembers the Blockbuster mantra/motto/tagline/commandment "Be Kind, (Please) Rewind"?!? Not sure if the Please was included, but the toddler Mama in me is adding it haha. For the Mamas outside the US, Blockbuster Videos was this HUGE chain of stores that was the magical place where movies landed when they came out on VHS in the 90s, maybe beyond, but that's when I remember them. I loved going to our neighborhood store with my parents and perusing the shelves, and remember the anxiety and now humor around making sure (sometimes forgetting and getting the disapproving scowl from a Blockbuster employee who then to their credit and in my Mama empathy likely had to add it to the stack of those videos they had to rewind personally) they were rewound, encased, and returned on time. Anyway, flashback 80's babies concluded... In this episode, I'm being kind and rewinding to the birth story that made me a Mama... of my daughter... and my version of me becoming a new Mama. I've written about my birth story too and I'll link to the blog below: https://www.mamamindset.com/blog/birth-story-camden Truthfully, this was a cathartic exercise for me in claiming the trauma around my birth story, what it is there to teach me, and allowing the sadness and all of the more uncomfortable emotions to sit and to stay a while, and to be sown in and claimed within the context and splendor of my story. I sipped my life latte tonight with all of those emotions on full display, and it felt very transcendent and reverent revisiting them with you. Full disclosure, my computer battery started running low and I cliff-hangered the story with me in my post-partum room eating a not so delicious hospital meal and waiting for my husband and newborn baby girl tot come back from her first bath in the newborn nursery. I knew all was not well with my body and the postpartum hemorrhage I was experiencing.... not to mention the extensive 3rd degree tears that have changed my body forever. I love my body, what it has done, what it has accomplished. How it shows up for me. And I'm all about rewriting the narrative that it's not about the bounce back, and the toxic pin the tail on the pre pregnant body we tend to play and subscribe to in social narratives. More on that FOR SURE another time. I'm stoked about sharing that ongoing saga and newfound sacred space I've carved out of acceptance for myself (and it's an ongoing practice for sure). Episode #7 is all about re-visting your triumph, your glory, your elation, your transformation into a new Mama or Mama again with subsequent births, and also being kind and surrenduring to the power of it all---- all that we were created to be and experience: Motherhood, our inner artist, our inner visionaries, and all the emotions and hormones that make us majestic. ..... computer shutdown and then I wrote the rest on my iphone (#strugglebustechnologynight), but also so grateful it connects us globallly, Mama. I pray all I just wrote and divine downloaded was somehow saved in the internet ethers as I try performing battery cpr and trying all the cords and all the outlets (I know you've been there). Update: It saved and was recovered. Was a few tense and daresay humorous moments eating leftover chicken pesto from the fridge and waiting in terrifying suspense. This episode is an invitation for you to revisit your own birth story in all of its facets and the faith that you have in yourself. To acknowledge the trauma your body accommodated in bringing that miracle (or miracles… we see you Mamas of multiples or successive births) and other associated trauma you may have endured in your expectant, labor & delivery or postpartum period. What if you were kind and pressed rewind, and from an observer point of view, and am expansive + sacred space, calling in your proprietary blend of radical compassion and empathy--- focused on the faith and fascination, on the play-by-play intimate re-experiencing of your birth story?! Your body and spirit hold the memories. You are safe to experience them all and to rise. You are never alone. And your trauma is not insignificant. So may this be a spiritual snack and an offering into truly how magnificent you are. That sadness and disappointment and grief even of how your birth story unfolded, progressed and concluded do not detract from your experience, they are all a part. When we welcome all the parts of us, empathically embrace all the emotions experienced and open to the hormonal harmony that we are divinely created to come into alignment with.... we honor our ability to heal, our superpower to know, and our resiliency. It’s one of the kindest gestures we can offer ourselves. So dilate with the discomfort, it has served you before. Giving birth to our birth stories in all of their dimensions and trauma might be one of the most empowering vital signs of our Mama Mindset. I’m diving in with you and will continue in Episode #8. I'll see you back in my postpartum room soon- you're invited back to Aug 2016 in this rewind continued. Mahalo for being here, Mama. For the opportunity to go from 0 to 10 cm dilated with our vulnerability and then to push out all of it…. The good, the grief, the gory, + the glory. Oohh I like that. Yes to you Mama, - Anik

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   16 Mar 2022

   Episode #6: Focus on the Fascinating

   Mama Mindset® Episode #6: "Focus on the Fascinating" Video Version: https://youtu.be/sFuDZ2TdGBs (https://youtu.be/sFuDZ2TdGBs) Suspended in the sacred space of this episode and your choice to be here listening and investing in yourself....you're invited to explore choosing to be fascinated. To set the intention to observe how fascinating your life is, the emotions that emerge as your teachers and to prosper you throughout the colorful chaos of your days. What if you chose to embrace the divine feminine energy that surges through you- that connects, nourishes, inspires, is creative, artistic, and grounded. Choosing fascination invites you into existing in gratitude. You'll drop the force the grind and the narrative that we must be frazzled versions of ourselves hyped up on coffee and "tired" and surviving this busy season. Deep down you know this not to be true. That there's more. You've always known it. Really knowing it and acting upon it is your choice, and you are invited into the space and the intention to have fun and flow and dance from the lens of fascination. It's freeing. Your ability to create and to sacrifice for those around you is next level amazing. How fascinating would it be if you choose to be vulnerable, transparent, genuine and authentic with your own vibrant soul and then shine out from this place of fascination? It's the intersection between your inner child and the playfulness and curiosity that is so endearing of that chapter, your current visionary self and your future self who beckons you forward in fascination. You get to choose fascination and fun. Cultivating curiosity. Observing when you drop into overwhelm and victim mode and then choosing to pivot to peace. This vertical alignment was divinely designed and dropped into your DNA and it is available to you. Your body as an instrument not an ornament. How you will choose to come into harmony with the inner symphony, the orchestra of ideas and inspiration only you can provide to the world around you is a choice you get to make. How fascinating. You're safe to shine and play in a way that honors you. Focusing on the fascinating. This gets to be your path. And it gets to be fun and in flow with your core values. Fascinating.

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    12 Mar 2022

    Episode #5: Mama Aff-FOR-mations

    Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #5: Mama Aff-FOR-mations Video Version: https://youtu.be/1Zw2ZdDwzsc (https://youtu.be/1Zw2ZdDwzsc) Aloha Mamas! This one is for you. I sat down in reverence to your spirit and to your power. These Aff-FOR-mations (like the Mama Mindset® podcast in general) flowed to me unscripted and unedited. I am so grateful for this space and the vulnerability you are leaning into in showing up. For yourself. For the dreams you know were divinely dropped into your soul. Choosing to speak life and love over yourself. Placing protective and sexy boundaries around your sacred soul. Knowing, believing you are safe to rise. This was a really fun and expansive episode for me to record in that I felt so aligned with everything I was saying looking into the mirror of my own reflection and knowing that it spoke to your soul as well. Mahalo nui loa and gratitude from me in Maui to you wherever these waves of words may wash upon your brilliant soul. I am truly grateful that you are leaning ever more into your power. Into the Visionary, human, woman and MAMA that you are. Enjoy this nourishing soul snack!

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    11 Mar 2022

    Episode #4: Judgey Judge

    Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #4: Judgey Jude Video Version: https://youtu.be/dsarWbOjDXs (https://youtu.be/dsarWbOjDXs) Aloha, Mamas. In this episode we life chat on why claiming and allowing that we all judge- ourselves, one another, all the time is a liberating realization. When we allow ourselves to be judges, we are invited to drop the limiting beliefs behind all the “If……Then” statements that contain us and devalue our experience. We can choose to come into vertical alignment with our spiritual side and to surrender all the ways we once sought lasting peace and contentment with horizontal things/possessions/relationships. Come judge this episode and judge yourself with kindness and radical compassion. Judging is as natural as breathing. We were made to judge scenarios and compare and contrast and evaluate. Let’s choose to do so moving forward in Mamamentum with our powerful feminine energy, harnessing our creativity, our empathy, our radical compassion. Let’s pivot from judgment being a “bad” thing and pretending like we don’t do it, to accepting it/claiming it/validating it and cultivating an awareness around when we are doing it. From there we can choose to take loving action into deepening our perspective and knowledge and ultimately leading a more impactful, fulfilling, meaningful life. Releasing the “If…..Then” statements we have carried around far too long, this spiritual surrendering to our Inner Knowing, the Highest Version of ourselves that is aligned vertically with our Spiritual Being, this is choosing peace in our life over the overwhelm. In this reverent gesture, we can overcome the peace we seek and yet will never find from things in the horizontal: the things of this world in the form of accomplishments/relationships/material goods that can never bring us the joy, grace, community, validation, hope, and love that we are divinely designed to pursue, enjoy, as well as emanate to others.

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    7 Mar 2022

    Episode #3: Mamatuition

    Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #3: Mamatuition Video Version: https://youtu.be/zgf2G8XxvKs (https://youtu.be/zgf2G8XxvKs) In this late night life chat, I introduce the concept of Mamatuition which to me is a your sacred superpower as a Mama. It's the intuition that guides you in the care and nurture of your children. When you as a woman, Mama, visionary and empath choose to tune into your Mamatuition, to become vertically aligned with it and trust that you have an Inner Knowing, a Divine Compass, and a peaceful place to surrender within your soul, a massive and transformational pivot occurs in your life. Motherhood is an invitation into your raw creative energy. You are magnetic. You are majestic. I'm here to polish your crown. You are royalty, and when you choose to approach yourself with reverence, to nourish yourself in a way that speaks life and love over yourself, you begin to surrender to living life with radical compassion toward yourself. We were born with this superpower of Mamatuition encoded into our DNA. We are expert empaths at the energetic channels abuzz that surround us. We function masterfully in the complex constellation of our family units, triaging the needs and energies of the little people we co created, and the intimate relationships we hold dear in the landscape of our lives. Speaking from personal experience, the time that I carved out or allowed even for my own creative passions and the dreams divinely dropped into my soul was relegated to the bookends of the day, aka before everyone was awake or long after everyone was asleep. This greatly muted my Mamatuition for a season of my life. I'm here now living into my genius zone and the Mamtuition within me that knew I was meant to serve in a way that felt fulfilling, challenging, and vulnerable. That way forward is Mama Mindset. And it is in the honor of being in community with all of you Mamas. What if you play around with open ended questions asking yourself, "How good am I wiling to let my life get?" and "What does it look like to create the life I want to life now?" Tapping into your Mamatuition is the most natural thing you can do. It already exists within you. You don't require any internet research, social media scrolling or expert opinion. Just as I could visibly see and energetically sense a Mama's overwhelm and stress melt when I told her in my Pediatric office, "You are the expert on your own child. Tell me a little bit more about what you think is going on," you are also the expert on yourself. Choosing to play in this space in childlike wonder, fascination and curiosity with what it feels like to turn your nourish/nurture mode upon yourself gets to be fun. We are invited in Motherhood back into the intimacy we were meant to exist within in knowing ourselves, in believing in ourselves, in choosing to speak life and love over ourselves, boldly looking in the pond of self reflection, allow all of our emotions as teachers, and in investing in ourselves. The decision to acting out of radical compassion with reverence toward yourself will transform your life, enhance the Maternal-infant/Maternal-child bond and cultivate increased intimacy in all of the personal relationships in your life. Mama, you are truly magnificent. I am so excited to watch you come into vertical alignment with your Mamatuition and where your superpower takes you. What you create, how you transform your own life and those around you is a captivating story being written. Aloha to you and your Mamatuition.

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    6 Mar 2022

    Episode #2: Mombassadors

    Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode #2: Mombassadors Video Version: https://youtu.be/Mi5Qqy43CFw (https://youtu.be/Mi5Qqy43CFw) In full disclosure and in keeping with the commitment of transparency + vulnerability, I full out yawned in the filming and recording of this episode. I had recently accomplished putting my babies to bed, cruised by the fridge to casually collect 4 oreos and hit record to life chat with you. I thought about editing it out for poise, but this is about authenticity and real, raw Motherhood and so here I am in all my divine downloads and yawn. Mamas around the world have been on my heart. This concept of Mombassador has really taken flight in my heart and I wanted to convey the Mamamentum we can all apply to healing our communities and the world around us. The opportunity is ours to heal with our individual and collective power To be Mombassadors across time and geography and any perceived boundaries. Mothering is a unique and sacred sisterhood, and we exist to polish one another's crowns and to shine out. I wrote recently about Momplomacy on my blog over at www.mamamindset.com and my vision of an ever expansive board room table that stretches across the globe with Mamas leading. We may not know where the road leads, but we are leaders finding out. Together. Holding space for one another. Aloha, Mama. I am so honored to be in this with you.

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    28 Feb 2022

    Episode #1: Intro + Aloha Mamas! (Also: Raw Unedited First Take)

    Mama Mindset® Podcast Episode 1: "Intro + Aloha Mamas" (Also, raw + unedited first take) Video Version: https://youtu.be/AmcGj-Pmg-g (https://youtu.be/AmcGj-Pmg-g) Launching Podcast…. 3, 2, 1, go! Intro Episode. Episode 1. Land wherever this podcast may on whomever is meant to hear it and be empowered. My vision with Mama Mindset® is to empower Mamas to travel from overwhelm to peace in their lives. To prioritize self care as healthcare and not selfish. To polish our crowns here together, and to recognize the divine qualities that echo through the brilliance and the way you were created to shine and prosper. Mamas, I’ve been incubating this podcast and nesting with the concept of it for a long time! I’ve released all limiting beliefs around “not being ready” “fear of failing” and all the stories that weren’t serving me (or you or anyone I’m meant to impact!) I sat down for the first life chat of many to come. So from a place of massive aloha here on Maui I‘m throwing up a Shaka and cheers-ing you with life chat lattes. True to the flavor of raw vulnerability that will define the Mama Mindset® podcast, I recorded this unscripted + on the first take, and am releasing it into the wild here unedited. I want to keep that commitment as much to myself as to all of you. To allow, encourage, + celebrate the imperfections that give us dimension, compassion and empathy as fellow Mamas. Authentically me showing up and holding space for myself. Inviting you to level up and do the same. Mama Mindset® is a global initiative of Mamas choosing to speak life and love over themselves. To protect their energy, uplevel their lives, lean into the dreams divinely dropped into their souls, and start creating the life they want to live right now. I’m so excited to cross life paths with you. I conclude the episode with one of my all time favorite words in serendipity. You arrived here for a reason. You chose to prioritize yourself for a reason. You are called to more. You are safe to rise. This is a podcast where you will be invited to look into your own soul and smile back at the majestic Mama that lives within you. A spiritual journey where you are offered a unique perspective to tap into your own innate power source. Tune in to Mama Mindset® Episode 1, a launching life chat in which I introduce you to your own capacity for vertical alignment with your Mamatuition (your superpower Mama Intuition) which is woven into the fibers of your DNA as a woman, Mama, visionary, creative, artist, athlete. I’ll be brining the raw life chats me to you and also lots of Mama dialogue and Momversations with fellow Mamas that will enhance all of our lives in an intimate and also energetically expansive way. The vibes are good and the question posed to you today and always here within Mama Mindset® is, “How good are you willing to let your life get, Mama?!” Let’s elevate our Mama Mindsets in a collectively expansive way! Tune into your own Mamatuition.

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