OMG it’s the 100th episode of Myth of Motherhood the podcast! WTF?!?!?! I’m so proud of us! LISTEN TO THE 100TH EPISODE HERE!
I started this podcast to talk about the taboo topics around motherhood and womanhood that no one talks about. The things we are all thinking and maybe having hushed conversations about with our closest girlfriends, but not speaking up about OUT LOUD! I wanted to have these bigger, louder conversations because I needed them and couldn’t find them. I wanted to save another new mom from the isolation, suffering, and loneliness I felt during my initiation to motherhood.
And it seems like we’re doing it…
I just listened to the new episode THREE TIMES. Honest to God, THREE TIMES. I’m so fired up! I can’t wait for any nugget of wisdom you are going to share!
As an adolescent medicine NP who focuses on adolescent GYN…thank you for starting the conversation and NORMALIZING vaginas. It’s so funny how many women can’t even say the word vagina. Thank you for also normalizing everything postpartum. I love all of it and thank you for being you and giving us permission to be us version 2.0!
You’re brilliant. In general I find mom podcasts mind numbing at best. I love your show!
On this week’s episode of the podcast, the 100th episode!!! I share some advice I got from my dad while getting my Pilates certification that I’m now modifying and building upon.
“Once you eat the first pound of shit, the next nine don’t taste as bad.”
I also share which episodes you’ve loved the most since we launched April 5th, 2021 AND which episodes I myself returned to during my early days postpartum with Cameron.
This body of work, the guests, the solo episodes, the recurring themes, the emails you sent me in response to episodes that moved you ALL supported me in the moment and the early days/weeks/and now months after Cameron joined the family.
Motherhood is a wild ride and as I’m building my new life I am reminded of some well intentioned advice my father gave me. “Once you eat the first pound of shit, the next nine don’t taste as bad.”
I talk about this advice and how deeply it resonated during my Pilates apprenticeship, my professional dance career, my first marriage, and again in motherhood BUT! This time, I had the power and strength to say “I’m not eating THAT.”
Because eating shit is inevitable, but we don’t need to eat ALL of the shit ALL of the time.
LISTEN TO THE EPISODE HERE and share it with a friend! Because holy smokes! 100 episodes!!! Ain't that some shit?!?!
Xo, Alissa
Ps. The IRL workshop Pilates For Your Privates: How The Pelvic Floor Unlocks Your Core is NEXT WEEK at Loop NJ! LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP FOR THE WORKSHOP HERE! I can’t wait to hug you in the studio!