One of the reasons I created this platform is because mothering is hard. Being a daughter of a mother is hard and so vitally complicated… It might be the most complicated relationship on the planet. She’s the person from which you came from, she sacrifices everything to make sure that you can enter the world healthy, loved, and nurtured—And then around eight or nine, you're rolling your eyes at her and telling her she’s lame!

Tune in and listen to episode seventy six of Mamaste with Tanika Ray. Today, I’m all about connecting with my sassy, brilliant, beautiful, self loving, self empowered daughter.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Our kids give us honest, gut wrenching, savage truths—right to our faces! (01:22)
• As mothers, we need to remember to share our jewels with our whole mama network (05:09)
• Right now, I'm in a strange, beautiful, nostalgic phase of looking at where I came from in order to figure out where I'm going (07:27)

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As mamas, we give everyone else everything we have before we give ourselves grace. We try to make our kids’ lives full with every possible thing they could love. We pack their schedule because we don’t want their time wasted on screens, but we also often forget to allow them their own sanctuary to figure out how to pass time by themselves. When all that backfires, it can be hard to let everyone breathe and give everyone—including ourselves— space.

Today, I’m welcoming my dear friend from my red carpet days, Michelle Ryan Bathé. Michelle is an actress and an extraordinary mama of two boys.

Tune in and listen to episode 75 of Mamaste with Tanika Ray. Michelle and I are talking all about shifting and adapting, raising small kids during the pandemic, and some of the positives that came out of all that time at home.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• What it was like for Michelle to film during the COVID-19 pandemic started (04:00)
• Why neither of us miss homeschooling our kids during the pandemic (08:37)
• Our kids often don’t have the skills to occupy themselves because we keep them so busy (15:51)
• How Michelle parents around screens and devices (22:39)
• What it’s like parenting children so that they’re aware of their privilege (28:25)

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A lot of us are suffering from all different kinds of triggers on Mother's Day… it's a  heavy, emotionally charged day at its core. It’s such a beautiful gesture in theory: “Today’s the day that everyone stops and honors the person that keeps all of our shit together.” But in practice, is that even possible?

Tune in and listen to episode seventy four of Mamaste with Tanika Ray. Today gets really real mamas. I had the perfect Mother’s Day planned for myself and let’s just say things went pretty much the opposite of the intentions I had set.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Growing up, I didn’t have the greatest example for Mother’s Day (02:27)
• Last weekend, my daughter learned about her limits—the hard way (04:35)
• I love my daughter to the moon and back, but mothering is not my favorite job (13:35)
• Sometimes you gotta keep your business to yourself, even when it comes to your kid (17:08)
• When you’re having a difficult Mother’s Day, sometimes the best thing you can do is release (19:48)

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