What if the thing you’re missing isn’t more discipline — it’s more play?

Not structured play.
Not “fun time” on your calendar.
Not something productive or Pinterest-worthy.

Real play.
Pointless, joyful, silly, inefficient play.

In this episode, we unpack:

✔️ Why a lack of play quietly fuels anxiety, irritability, and burnout
✔️ The neuroscience of how play expands creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation
✔️ How play restores executive function — the part of your brain responsible for decision-making and focus
✔️ Simple ways to bring play back into your life (even if you feel disconnected from it)

This isn’t about adding another task to your day.
It’s about remembering what your nervous system already knows:

Play is medicine.

Play is regulation.
Play brings you back to yourself.

If you’ve been efficient, responsible, and exhausted, this episode will feel like an exhale — and an invitation to feel alive again.

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If motherhood ever cracked you open in ways you didn’t expect—old grief surfacing, worthiness wobbling, “Who even am I now?”—this conversation will feel like oxygen.

I’m joined by Anna Seewald—Armenian-born educator, psychologist, and parenting & co-parenting specialist.

After surviving the 1988 Spitak earthquake at 13 (losing her mother, home, friends, and community), Anna built a life and practice in the U.S.

For the last 17 years she’s worked with parents in New Jersey as a therapist and divorce mediator, helping families heal patterns at the root—without perfectionism, shame, or Band-Aid fixes.

We’re diving into:

• ✔️ Trauma-informed parenting 101: why early loss/relational wounds resurface in pregnancy and the “dark side” of early motherhood—and how to stop repeating unconscious patterns
• ✔️ Worthiness, shame, and the nervous system: why self-compassion (not self-critique) is the real regulator—and how to practice acceptance even when you don’t “love” every part of you
• ✔️ Practical repair tools: catching the harsh inner critic, shifting from people-pleasing to needs-honoring, body gratitude over body punishment, and simple in-the-moment resets (hand-on-heart, kinder self-talk, micro-choices)

If you feel like you’ve been hanging onto parents for dear life—or minimizing your story because it’s not “capital-T” trauma—this episode offers grounded hope and clear next steps.

🎧 Press play to learn how to honor your history, rewire toward gentleness, and lead your family from a steadier, kinder core.

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You’ve mastered your calendar.

You’ve optimized your mornings.

You’ve checked every box.

So why do you still feel anxious, rushed, and never quite caught up?

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the biggest modern myths — the illusion that productivity leads to peace.

Because what if all your effort to “manage time” has actually been keeping your nervous system trapped in survival mode?

You’ll discover:

• ✔️ The neuroscience of why efficiency fuels anxiety rather than freedom
• ✔️ How the pursuit of control over time accelerates burnout and dysregulation
• ✔️ A radically different approach to partnering with time instead of fighting against it
• ✔️ Why embracing your human limits — not escaping them — expands your true capacity for joy, rest, and fulfillment

This episode is both a reframe and a release — an invitation to slow down, surrender the illusion of control, and start building rhythm instead of chasing balance.

Because peace isn’t found in mastering time.

It’s found in honoring it.

If you’ve been white-knuckling your calendar, constantly chasing the next hack, or wondering why “having it all together” still feels hollow, this conversation will help you exhale, realign, and finally live at the pace of peace..

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