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  • When Emotions Speak Louder Than Words

    When Emotions Speak Louder Than Words
    Feb 17 2026
    Mood Swings, Anxiety, and Feeling “Not Like Yourself” Lately, your emotions feel different—and it’s unsettling. You’re more anxious than you used to be.
    More easily irritated.
    More overwhelmed by things that once felt manageable. Why do your emotions feel closer to the surface now?
    Why does anxiety show up without a clear reason?
    Why do you feel like you’re not quite yourself anymore? In this episode of Momma Never Told Me, Erica explores the emotional shifts many women experience but rarely feel prepared for—the mood changes, anxiety, and inner unrest that can arrive quietly and leave us questioning ourselves. We’ll gently explore questions like:
    • What if anxiety isn’t something to fix, but something to understand?
    • Why do emotional changes often show up alongside physical ones?
    • How does long-term stress and emotional suppression affect the nervous system?
    • What happens when emotions we’ve ignored finally ask to be felt?
    • How do we release the fear that something is “wrong” with us?
    This is not a conversation about controlling emotions or pushing them away.
    It’s a space to slow down, normalize what you’re feeling, and listen without judgment. If you’ve been feeling emotionally unsettled, more sensitive, or unlike yourself lately—this episode offers reassurance, context, and permission to breathe. 🎵 Music Attribution In A Sentimental Mood (En Vivo) by Chido Rivera

    🔗 Supporting Emotional Balance While You Listen This episode speaks to a moment many women recognize but rarely name—the feeling of being emotionally closer to the edge, more sensitive, more anxious, or simply not like yourself. At MAMA Never Told Me, we honor the idea that emotional shifts are not flaws. They are signals. And learning to listen to those signals often requires gentle, supportive practices, not pressure to “snap out of it” or force stability. That’s why we partner with Zivo.life. 🌿 Zivo.life — Gentle Support for Emotional Seasons Zivo.life is a plant-based wellness brand designed to support daily balance without extremes. Their philosophy aligns with the heart of this episode: caring for the nervous system, honoring emotional cycles, and supporting the body through long seasons of stress and change. If you’ve been noticing mood swings, anxiety, or a sense of emotional unfamiliarity—and you’re looking for supportive options that don’t come from fear or urgency—you can explore Zivo.life using the code below: REGGAEHOUR — 30% off 👉 https://zivo.life ⚖️ FTC Disclosure This episode description contains affiliate links. If you choose to make a purchase through the link above, MAMA Never Told Me / Reggae Hour may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
    Affiliate support helps keep this podcast independent and committed to creating spaces where women can explore emotional and mental health with honesty and compassion. You are not broken.
    Sometimes your emotions are simply asking to be heard.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    20 min
  • When Your Body Starts Holding On- Weight, Bloating, and Swelling

    When Your Body Starts Holding On- Weight, Bloating, and Swelling
    Feb 10 2026
    One day your body feels different—and you don’t know why. Your clothes fit tighter.
    Your stomach feels heavier.
    Your body feels like it’s holding on… even though nothing obvious has changed. Why does weight show up when your habits haven’t?
    Why does bloating linger no matter what you eat or avoid?
    Why does your body feel swollen, uncomfortable, or unfamiliar? In this episode of Momma Never Told Me, Erica gently explores the body changes women are rarely prepared for—especially the ones that come with confusion, self-blame, and quiet frustration. We’ll sit with questions like:
    • What if your body holding on isn’t a failure—but protection?
    • How do stress, hormones, and long seasons of endurance show up physically?
    • Why are women taught to fight body changes instead of understand them?
    • What happens when we stop asking how to fix our bodies and start asking what they need?
    • How do we release shame around weight, bloating, and swelling?
    This is not a conversation about diets, plans, or control.
    It’s a space to slow down, soften the inner dialogue, and listen to what your body may be communicating. If your body feels unfamiliar lately—and you’ve been wondering what you did wrong—this episode is an invitation to pause and consider another possibility.

    🎵 Music Attribution In A Sentimental Mood (En Vivo) by Chido Rivera

    🔗 Supporting the Body While You Listen This episode invites a different kind of relationship with the body—one rooted in listening instead of fighting, and care instead of control. At Mama Never Told Me, we believe that understanding your body is a process that unfolds over time. And sometimes, supporting that process means choosing tools that encourage balance, nourishment, and gentleness, rather than pressure or perfection. That’s why we partner with Zivo.life. 🌿 Zivo.life — Gentle Support for Women Listening to Their Bodies Zivo.life is a plant-based wellness brand designed to support everyday balance without extremes. Their approach aligns with the spirit of this episode: meeting your body where it is, supporting it thoughtfully, and honoring the long seasons women carry. If you’re in a phase of noticing changes—weight, bloating, swelling, or simply feeling unfamiliar in your body—and you’re looking for supportive options that don’t come from shame or urgency, you can explore Zivo.life using the code below: REGGAEHOUR — 30% off 👉 https://zivo.life ⚖️ FTC Disclosure This episode description contains affiliate links. If you choose to make a purchase through the link above, Mama Never Told Me / Reggae Hour may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
    Affiliate support helps keep this podcast independent and committed to creating spaces where women can explore their bodies with honesty and care. Your body is not broken.
    Sometimes, it’s just asking to be heard.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086/support.

    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    20 min
  • Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting (This Conversation Must Be Had Again)

    Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting (This Conversation Must Be Had Again)
    Feb 3 2026
    Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting? You’re sleeping.
    You’re slowing down when you can.
    And yet… you still feel exhausted. Why does rest not feel restorative anymore?
    Why do you wake up tired before the day even begins?
    Why does your body feel heavy, foggy, or depleted—without a clear reason? In this episode of Momma Never Told Me, Erica explores the kind of exhaustion women are rarely warned about—the deep, lingering fatigue that doesn’t come from one long day, but from years of carrying too much. We’ll gently sit with questions like:
    • What if this tiredness isn’t laziness or burnout—but communication?
    • What has your body been holding quietly for a long time?
    • Why doesn’t “just resting” always work?
    • How do stress, emotional labor, and survival mode show up as fatigue later in life?
    • What changes when we stop trying to fix exhaustion and start listening to it?
    This is not a conversation about productivity, routines, or pushing through.
    It’s an invitation to soften, to release shame, and to understand what your body might be asking for now. If you’ve been feeling tired in a way that’s hard to explain—this episode is for you. 🎵 Music Attributions Daytime TV Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Comfortable Mystery Part 2 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Singular Perversion by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    20 min
  • Why You’re Still Exhausted Even When You Rest (The Tired No One Warned Us About)

    Why You’re Still Exhausted Even When You Rest (The Tired No One Warned Us About)
    Jan 21 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Everyday Nourishment for Changing Bodies
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off There’s a kind of exhaustion many women carry that sleep doesn’t fix. Not the end-of-the-day tired — but the deep fatigue that builds after years of responsibility, caregiving, emotional labor, and being “the strong one.” This episode explores exhaustion as information, not failure — and offers language, validation, and relief from the belief that something is “wrong” with you. If you’ve rested and still feel tired…
    You’re not broken.
    You’re human

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    19 min
  • When Your Body Changes and You Don’t Recognize Yourself Anymore

    When Your Body Changes and You Don’t Recognize Yourself Anymore
    Jan 20 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Gentle Support During Body Transitions
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off

    This episode holds space for the grief, neutrality, and compassion that come when your body changes and your identity shifts with it. No fixing.
    No positivity pressure.
    Just honesty — and permission to be in transition.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    17 min
  • The Body Changes... and So Does The Marriage

    The Body Changes... and So Does The Marriage
    Jan 13 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. These partnerships help support the show. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Gentle, Plant-Based Wellness Support
    Zivolife supports everyday nourishment and balance during seasons of physical and emotional change.
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off What happens when a woman’s body starts changing — and her partner doesn’t understand? In Episode 2 of Mama Never Told Me, Errica reads an anonymous message from a woman in her community who survived a frightening health season because her husband believed her from the beginning. He didn’t have answers.
    He didn’t try to fix her.
    He stayed. Then Errica tells the truth. That wasn’t her story. In a vulnerable and emotionally charged conversation, Errica is joined by her husband Eric — known as Mr. E from the podcast Reggae Hour — as they speak openly about how fear, misunderstanding, and silence nearly cost them their marriage. Eric shares the mistake he made — minimizing what he didn’t understand — and offers a message directly to men about presence, listening, and why holding your partner matters more than having answers. This episode is about:
    • Women navigating body changes no one prepared them for
    • The emotional cost of being dismissed — at home and in medicine
    • Repair, accountability, and what real spousal support looks like
    It’s not polished.
    It’s not perfect.
    It’s honest. If you love a woman whose body is changing…
    or if you are that woman… This conversation may change how you show up.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    17 min
  • I Thought I Was Dying-- and No One Believed Me

    I Thought I Was Dying-- and No One Believed Me
    Jan 13 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. These partnerships help support the show. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Plant-Based Wellness Support
    Zivolife offers clean, plant-based products designed to support balance, vitality, and everyday nourishment during seasons when bodies are changing and asking for more gentleness.
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off A year ago, Errica’s body began whispering.
    Then it started screaming. From dangerously low blood pressure to terrifying spikes.
    From unexplained right-side pain to losing twenty pounds in four days.
    From January to October, she found herself in the emergency room 52 times — begging to be heard. Doctors said the tests were “normal.”
    They said it was stress.
    Anxiety.
    Menopause.
    Anything but the truth. In this raw and deeply personal first episode of Mama Never Told Me, Errica shares what it’s like to be trapped inside a body that feels like it’s failing — while the medical system tells you nothing is wrong. She takes listeners through the fear, the dismissal, the exhaustion of being passed from specialist to specialist… and the moment when one doctor finally listened. This episode isn’t about diagnosis.
    It’s about intuition.
    It’s about self-trust.
    And it’s about what happens when women are taught to doubt their bodies before they’re taught to listen. If you’ve ever felt dismissed, unheard, or alone in your health journey — this episode is for you. 🎧 Next Episode Tease:
    In Episode 2, Errica shares another woman’s anonymous story — one where support made all the difference — and then reveals how her own marriage nearly broke before it began to heal.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    18 min
  • Mama Never Told Me: The Stories We Were Never Prepared For

    Mama Never Told Me: The Stories We Were Never Prepared For
    Jan 5 2026
    Some things mama never told us.
    But our bodies remember anyway. Mama Never Told Me is a podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and relational changes no one prepared us for — but so many of us are living through. In this introductory episode, Errica invites you into the heart of the show through three powerful stories. Her own — a year-long health crisis marked by fear, medical dismissal, and the moment she finally realized her body wasn’t betraying her… it was trying to speak. An anonymous woman’s story — one shared quietly, without a name, about moving through frightening body changes with the support of a partner who believed her when answers were hard to find. And a marriage story — about misunderstanding, silence, accountability, and how not knowing how to support someone can nearly cost you everything. This episode is not medical advice.
    It’s not about diagnoses or quick fixes. It’s about intuition.
    It’s about being believed.
    It’s about the conversations we were never taught to have — with our doctors, our partners, or even ourselves. If you’ve ever felt unheard in your body…
    If you’ve ever questioned your own knowing…
    If you’ve ever carried fear quietly… This podcast is for you. 🎧 Start your journey here, then continue with Episodes 1–4, where each story is explored more deeply. 💛 Want to go further?
    Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Club for $4.99/month to access practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with professionals, and a private space for women navigating hard seasons with honesty and care. 👉 Support the show here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086/support Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

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    8 min