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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.
Episodes
The Joyful Mom Podcast141: Good Grief Parenting With Michele Benyo
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The Joyful Mom Podcast140: 3 Types of Business
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The Joyful Mom Podcast139: Conflict and Connection in Marriage With Brett Nikula
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The Joyful Mom Podcast138: A Look Inside of Grieving Moms Haven
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The Joyful Mom Podcast137: 5 Reasons You Might Not Try Something That Would Help
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The Joyful Mom Podcast136: Spiritual Bypassing
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The Joyful Mom Podcast135 Creating a Life of Struggle
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The Joyful Mom Podcast134: Snapshots of Life After Loss With Gracelyn
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The Joyful Mom Podcast133 Not All Your Feelings Are Real
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The Joyful Mom Podcast132 How Do You Know If You Need Help?
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The Joyful Mom Podcast131: When Others in Your Life Don't Let Your Grieve
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The Joyful Mom Podcast130: Using Your Breath to Connect With Your Body
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The Joyful Mom Podcast129: Having Hard Conversations
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The Joyful Mom Podcast128: Changing Your Thoughts From the Inside
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The Joyful Mom Podcast127: Letting Go of the Fight
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The Joyful Mom Podcast126: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 3)
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The Joyful Mom Podcast125: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 2)
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The Joyful Mom Podcast124: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 1)
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The Joyful Mom Podcast123 Walking into a New Year
Send a message to Megan So- here’s to hoping 2022 can be a year of gentleness on your heart, and a time where you can hold compassion, gentleness, and love for…
The Joyful Mom Podcast122: The Power of AND
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers : Using the word AND, helps expand your energy, awareness, and opens up things for your brain to register in a way…
The Joyful Mom Podcast121: When Wishes Change with Tricia Roos
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: You know that the person is dying, but you do everything to make the situation comfortable. You provide until the end…
The Joyful Mom Podcast120: 3 Ideas to Support You Through the Holidays
Send a message to Megan Holiday season is a time for happiness and making good memories with your loved ones. How can a grieving mom experience true happiness…
The Joyful Mom Podcast119: How Much Do You Judge Yourself In Your Grief?
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Judgment is anytime you think you should be doing better, differently, or than you are. This quadruples the pain and…
The Joyful Mom Podcast118: Have You Become Comfortable?
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: When grief first comes into your world, it’s so foreign. The grief wave of emotion almost feels too big to bear. But…
The Joyful Mom Podcast117: Mental Health and Addiction with Aaron Huey
Send a message to Megan Disclaimer: This episode talks about mental health, addiction, sexual assault and suicide. Episode Pointers: Take care of yourself…
The Joyful Mom Podcast116 : Building Your Grief Toolbox
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: When grief first comes to you, you might have a few tools in your toolbox. It may be ways you have used to cope in…
The Joyful Mom Podcast115: We are Moving in a School Bus
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: When Aria died, one of the biggest things I learned was that death can happen at any moment. In one instant, someone…
The Joyful Mom Podcast114: Grief and Anxiety
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers : Anxiety is not a problem. The more you resist anxiety, the more intense it gets. Having anxiety is your brain’s way…
The Joyful Mom Podcast113: Enneagram and Grief With Callie Ammons
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Enneagram is a lens and the way that we look at the world and it's helping us understand what is going on internally…
The Joyful Mom Podcast112: Reaching For Gratitude
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Imagine that gratitude is like practicing a muscle. It’s like practicing gratitude in your body. Just because you are…
The Joyful Mom Podcast111: Finding What You Need Inside of You
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: You know what you need inside of you already. Maybe you just haven’t given yourself permission to listen to yourself…
The Joyful Mom Podcast110: Triggers are your Teachers
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: It’s our natural instinct to run from triggers. We often see them as a bad thing. The thing I believe about triggers…
The Joyful Mom Podcast109: Meeting Anxiety Where It’s At With Sandra Hoye
Send a message to Megan Note : This episode is a Facebook Live Recording on July 20, 2021. Click here to watch the recording: https://fb.watch/v/3IRqQ5muo/ In…
The Joyful Mom Podcast108 :Allowing Others to Have Their Own Experience
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: It’s so painful when someone comes and judges the way you are grieving. We all express our grief differently. You can…
The Joyful Mom Podcast107: Processing vs. Resisting Grief
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: When you are resisting an emotion, You might use something to try to distract yourself from feeling the pain inside…
The Joyful Mom Podcast106: Accepting Help
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers : The benefits of allowing others to help is amazing, because that means you can take a step back and take time for…
The Joyful Mom Podcast105 : Emotional Eating with Natalie Brown
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The Joyful Mom Podcast104 : Boxing Things Up Meditation
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast103: Post Traumatic Growth
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Post Traumatic Growth - It is positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis or a…
The Joyful Mom Podcast102: Learning to Love Yourself
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Learning to love yourself is not something that happens overnight, but it’s so important.If you want to love others…
The Joyful Mom Podcast101: Using Colors with Mehnaz Khan
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast100: Who Am I?
Send a message to Megan “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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast99 : Suffering is Optional- Byron Katie and The Work
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. The suffering comes in, when we resist what is. Whether it’s the emotion…
The Joyful Mom Podcast98 The Decisions You Make with Katrina Ubell
Send a message to Megan You can contact her through the following: Website : www.katrinaubellmd.com Instagram: @coachkatrinaubellmd Facebook …
The Joyful Mom Podcast97: The Finality and Acceptance of Death
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Acceptance is something that seems so hard to be okay with. You know the fact that your child died and yet something…
The Joyful Mom Podcast96: Guilt
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast95 : What are you focusing on in Grief?
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast94: In the Blink of an Eye with Tina Kadish
Send a message to Megan “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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast93: What do I do with my child’s things?
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: There are certain things that we want to be gone right away, especially those things connected to their death. In…
The Joyful Mom Podcast92: STOP TALKING, START FEELING
Send a message to Megan Episode Pointers: Stop Talking Start Feeling is a mini-program that helps you process the emotions inside of your body. Many grieving…
The Joyful Mom Podcast91: Grounding Your Nervous System with Amisha Klawonn
Send a message to Megan Episode Notes: When we started to get people into their bodies, into their breath, and just feeling what they needed to feel, they got…
The Joyful Mom Podcast90: Radical Responsibility
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast89: Anger and Acting Out in Grief
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast88: Suicide, Reiki and death With Sharon Ehlers
Send a message to Megan 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…
The Joyful Mom Podcast87: On the Exhaustion Treadmill
Send a message to Megan So every day, you wake up, immediately get busy, because if you take a moment to think, you will start to go on the rabbit hole of what…
The Joyful Mom Podcast86: Physical Sickness in Grief
Send a message to Megan In this episode, we are going to talk about how grief affects our health physically. Episode Pointers: Grief, trauma, anxiety, and…
The Joyful Mom Podcast85: Tips for Getting Sleep When Grief Keeps You Awake
Send a message to Megan Sleep is a place where our bodies heal, process trauma and information that we’ve experienced in our lives. Sleep is so healthy for us…
The Joyful Mom Podcast84: The Layers of grief with Erica McAfee
Send a message to Megan In this episode, Erica McAfee shared her grief journey, her different layers of grief, and how she used them and got inspired to create…
The Joyful Mom Podcast83: Having Another Baby After loss
Send a message to Megan In today’s episode, we are going to talk about pregnancy after loss, specifically the fear of having another baby. Episode Pointers…
The Joyful Mom Podcast82: Encouragement to do Nothing
Send a message to Megan In this episode, we are going to talk about how taking breaks in your grief works. Episode Pointers: It is a ton of work to manage your…