The Motherhood Mentor
Welcome to The Motherhood Mentor Podcast your go-to resource for moms seeking holistic healing and transformation. Hosted by mind-body somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach Becca Dollard. Join us as we explore the transformative power of somatic healing, offering practical tools and strategies to help you navigate overwhelm, burnout, and stress. Through insightful conversations, empowering stories, and expert guidance, you'll discover how to cultivate resilience, reclaim balance, and thrive in every aspect of your life while still feeling permission to be a human. Are you a woman who is building a business while raising babies who refuses to burnout? These are conversations and support for you. We believe in the power of vulnerability, connection, and self-discovery, and our goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and valued. Whether you're juggling career, family, or personal growth, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic healing and growth all while normalizing the ups and downs, the messy and the magic, and the wild ride of this season of motherhood. Your host: Becca is a mom of two, married for 14years to her husband Jay living in Colorado. She is a certified somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach to high functioning moms. She works with women who are navigating raising babies, building businesses, and prioritizing their own wellbeing and healing. She understands the unique challenges of navigating being fully present in motherhood while also wanting to be wildly creative and ambitious in her work. The Motherhood Mentor serves and supports moms through 1:1 coaching, in person community, and weekend retreats. Follow on IG: @themotherhoodmentor , send me a dm and let me know you found me through the podcast! Website: https://www.the-motherhood-mentor.com/ Want to join the email fam for free workshops and more support: https://themotherhoodmentor.myflodesk.com/ujaud8t4x9
Episodes
Our bodies have unconscious patterns of responding to perceived threats that happen without conscious control, ranging from simple to complex defensive reactions.
• Fight response involves mobilizing energy against a threat with aggressive outbursts, criticism, or controlling behaviors
• Flight response means moving away from threats through anxiety, overthinking, or intellectual distancing
• Freeze response feels like &...
What if the thing sabotaging your communication isn't your words, but your body's stuck survival strategy just trying to keep you safe? We go deep with Enneagram coach Michelle McDonald to explore the instinct layer of enneagram-self-preservation, social, and one-to-one—and how these fast, automatic behavior patterns quietly steer your relationships, leadership, and daily choices. This is personal developmen...
We guide a short morning practice to center attention, reclaim energy, and choose how to move through the day with grace and clarity. Gratitude, body awareness, and gentle course-correction help build presence without pressure.
• orienting to day, time, and season
• sensory check-in with the world outside
• body scan from head to feet
• deep breathing to build calm energy
• naming agency, choi...
We guide a grounded practice to meet your emotions, feel where you end and others begin, and build flexible boundaries that protect your energy while keeping connection possible. Through imagery, breath, and simple prompts, you restore right distance, agency, and choice.
• orienting to room, time, age, and body
• mapping emotion by location, speed, and color
• sensing others’ presence and the space be...
Burnout doesn't have to be the cost of ambition. In this conversation with repeat guest and facilitator Camille Leek, we explore somatic healing and cyclical living for entrepreneurs balancing work and motherhood. Learn how to restore sustainable productivity by aligning with natural cycles- birth, growth, decay, and death-so your nervous system can support big work without collapse.
Instead of chasing forever-sum...
We guide a short morning practice to ground your body, soften your breath, and let the earth hold what’s too heavy so you can meet the day with steadiness. The session blends breathwork, body scan, orientation to time and place, and a gentle reminder to carry presence forward.
• grounding through feet and seat
• slow nose inhales, mouth exhales
• releasing past weight and future fear
• visualizing...
We guide a slow body scan that builds safety, sensation, and self-trust by orienting to the room, mapping the body from head to toes, and using breath and imagery to settle the nervous system. We close by reorienting eyes open, reclaiming energy, and choosing a pace that fits what comes next.
• orienting to safety through sight and context
• thanking the planning mind and writing tasks down
• scanning...
Success once meant strategy, systems, and performance. Now, it means truth, alignment, and peace.
This episode with Kristine Munro, founder of Illume Collective, explores what happens when your definition of success evolves-and your old identity can’t keep up.
We talk about the loneliness of pivot seasons, the power of honest community, and the nervous-system-level recalibration required to lead from authenticity.
K...
What if secure attachment isn’t about perfect parenting-but about steady leadership, honest repair, and a strong nervous system you can share with your kids?
In this conversation, therapist and mom of three Hannah Dorscher joins Becca to demystify attachment theory and bring it down to earth. Together they unpack the four attachment styles-secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized-and translate them into real-life to...
Motherhood and business can both be holy and hard. I often feel the very real tension between deeply caring about and wanting multiple things in the same season, and also butting up against my capacity and things outside my control. This episode is a love letter to every mom.
I share the behind-the-scenes of a recent emotional upheaval moment where I decided to in real and raw time share the shame, embarrassment, and...
We all have patterns that feel like personality, but are actually protection.
In this powerful conversation, Becca is joined by Enneagram teacher Katie Whitlock for a grounded, compassionate look at how the Enneagram helps us see ourselves and others more clearly.
Far beyond a personality test, the Enneagram reveals the why beneath our habits - the motivation, fear, and longing that quietly run the s...
Motherhood will stretch you in ways you never imagined, but you don’t have to face it alone. In this raw conversation with Dr. Kim Murray, licensed marriage & family therapist and perinatal mental health specialist, we break open the truths no one is talking about on Instagram or in the baby books especially around postpartum mental health struggles.
We cover:
- Why perinatal mental health starts before conceptio...
What happens when healing moves beyond thinking and into feeling? In this rich conversation, Becca sits down with somatic practitioner Andrew Rosenstock to explore the profound world of embodied healing—the kind that words can’t quite capture.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
- What somatics actually means and why it’s more than a wellness buzzword
- How the lived, felt experience of the body differs from the concept of...
Ever found yourself smiling and agreeing to something, only to walk away wishing you had said no? Do you wonder why you keep accidentally ending up resentful or burnt out? You wonder why boundaries and conflict feel like you could die? That’s not just “people-pleasing” it’s your nervous system working overtime to keep you safe through fawning.
In this episode, we dig into what’s really happening beneath freeze and faw...
What if transformation isn’t about fixing what’s broken, but learning to relate to yourself with compassion and trust?
In this raw and powerful conversation, guest Jenna Lee Dillon shares the inner shifts she’s experienced through somatic coaching, masterminds, and retreats. Once living in a constant state of “pedal to the metal,” Jenna Lee discovered the radical freedom of trusting herself to know when to accelerate- ...
If you’ve ever wondered why you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or like you are going through the motions but not really there, even when life looks fine on the outside - this episode is for you.
Your nervous system isn't broken- in fact it's working perfectly. In this podcast we dive into the wisdom of the body keeping score. Your dysregulation- no matter how destructive- it is a protective pattern. The snapping...
High-achieving. Burned out, but still going. Still not feeling like it’s enough? Let’s talk.
What happens when you’re doing all the right things but still feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or just plain exhausted?
In this raw, unscripted episode, we’re diving into the paradox so many high-functioning, high performing, perfectionist women face: doing everything right, but not getting the results or the feelings you actuall...
Ever notice rage in your jaw before it reaches your thoughts? That’s your body giving you flags long before your mindset can “think positive.” In Episode 2 of our Somatic Series, Becca unpacks why nervous-system regulation isn’t about staying zen 24/7; it’s about riding the full emotional wave without getting wiped out.
You’ll learn to:
- Pinpoint the exact sensations—heat, buzzing, pressure—that signal an oncoming ou...
Ever feel like you've mastered the art of looking like you have it all together while secretly feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or like something's fundamentally "off"? You've done the mindset work, read the books, practiced the affirmations- yet that persistent gap between knowing what to do and actually feeling better remains.
In this episode, we dive into why conventional personal developm...
What if everything you’re doing to help your child’s anxiety is actually making things worse? In this eye opening episode Becca sits down with Robyn, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in helping anxious kids, by working with their parents.
Our natural parental instincts to soothe, protect, and accommodate can keep our kids stuck in anxiety. Robyn shares the revolutionary SPACE protocol which flips the ...
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