The Joyful Mom Podcast
I’m Megan Hillukka, a mother to a large family, a wife, business owner, homeschooling mom, and this podcast shows you how to find joy in motherhood, even when it’s busy, overwhelming, and chaotic, so that you can have peace, energy, and be the mom you thought you would be. We’ll talk about mental health, business, homemaking, marriage, raising kids, and more, all the ups and downs that a mother might experience in her life as she raises her family. This is the Joyful Mom Podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 348
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
107: Processing vs. Resisting Grief
Episode Pointers:
- When you are resisting an emotion, You might use something to try to distract yourself from feeling the pain inside of you.
- Every time you use something to try…
106: Accepting Help
Episode Pointers :
- The benefits of allowing others to help is amazing, because that means you can take a step back and take time for yourself to grieve.
- Sometimes you have to f…
105 : Emotional Eating with Natalie Brown
Reach out to her through her :
Website : www.itbeginswithathought.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/itbeginswithathoughtcoaching
Instagram : www.instagram.com/itbeginswithathoughtcoa…
104 : Boxing Things Up Meditation
For this episode, I want to share with you this meditation that I do in my coaching sessions with other grieving moms.
It is called ‘Boxing Things Up Meditation’ because we some…
103: Post Traumatic Growth
Episode Pointers:
- Post Traumatic Growth - It is positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis or a traumatic event.
5 General Areas of Post Tr…
102: Learning to Love Yourself
Episode Pointers:
- Learning to love yourself is not something that happens overnight, but it’s so important.If you want to love others well, you have to learn to love yourself fi…
101: Using Colors with Mehnaz Khan
Mehnaz Khan is an Artist and a Color Psychology Specialist. In today’s episode,she will share how colors affect the way we feel and the way we think.
Episode Pointers :
- Everythi…
100: Who Am I?
“Who Am I?” is one of the sections of my Life After Child Loss Program. It is a part of my C.A.R.R.Y.ing Grief Framework where the Y stands for You and learning to love yours…
99 : Suffering is Optional- Byron Katie and The Work
Episode Pointers:
- Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. The suffering comes in, when we resist what is. Whether it’s the emotion, the circumstance, the relationship, what i…
98 The Decisions You Make with Katrina Ubell
You can contact her through the following:
- Website : www.katrinaubellmd.com
- Instagram: @coachkatrinaubellmd
- Facebook : www.facebook.com/katrinaubellmd
If you want more tools to hel…
97: The Finality and Acceptance of Death
Episode Pointers:
- Acceptance is something that seems so hard to be okay with. You know the fact that your child died and yet something in you fights this reality. Because you do…
96: Guilt
- Guilt is a very normal emotion to feel because we think that is our job to raise and protect our children, to keep them safe. It is also our job to make sure they are okay,he…
95 : What are you focusing on in Grief?
Episode Pointers:
- In grief, we often focus on it’s negative side. We think that life has to be suffering, life awful and horrible the rest of our lives. It’s also easy to think …
94: In the Blink of an Eye with Tina Kadish
“This is the biggest challenge. I've had other challenges in my life but this is far above any challenge that I've had, and any challenge that I think I will have in the future…
93: What do I do with my child’s things?
Episode Pointers:
- There are certain things that we want to be gone right away, especially those things connected to their death.
- In other people’s experience, there are other pe…
92: STOP TALKING, START FEELING
Episode Pointers:
- Stop Talking Start Feeling is a mini-program that helps you process the emotions inside of your body.
- Many grieving mothers and other people have tried everythi…
91: Grounding Your Nervous System with Amisha Klawonn
Episode Notes:
- When we started to get people into their bodies, into their breath, and just feeling what they needed to feel, they got better, and faster.
- Yoga Therapy really loo…
90: Radical Responsibility
Episode Pointers:
- I know how quickly we can begin to pick apart and judge ourselves.
- I want you to look at yourself and your life with curiosity and ask:
- Where can I take respons…
89: Anger and Acting Out in Grief
Episode Pointers:
- Grief does not give us the right to lash out at others. It does not give us a free pass on acting in whatever way we want.
- Lashing out to others and using your …
88: Suicide, Reiki and death With Sharon Ehlers
Sharon has lost her best friend and her former fiance from suicide. In addition to that pain,she has also lost her father from a fall. This combination of heartaches and grief …