Motherhood Meets Medicine
The Motherhood Meets Medicine Podcast is a space that brings all women together. It's for those who hope to be a mom one day, those who are already mothers, and mothers of mothers. This podcast will give you candid, informal interviews on motherhood topics that you can listen to while you're driving to work, folding laundry or whatever else your busy day may bring. Each week, Your host, Lynzy Coughlin, will be focusing on topics ranging from postpartum issues to parenting teens. She's bringing in experts with formal training to cover everything motherhood! So grab your coffee and join us for a weekly chat on your time. All are welcome! Lynzy is a Physician Assistant in the Emergency Department where she has practiced medicine for the last 15 years. You can connect with Lynzy on her Substack account, Badass Matriarch.
Episodes
November 20, 2024 • 58 mins
Over the next few months, I’ll be mixing in some of our earlier Motherhood Meets Medicine interviews with new episodes. These ‘best of’ episodes are the most shared and listened to episodes of all time!
Here is today’s featured episode with Dr. Daryl Johnson, listen as she discusses keeping the spark alive after kids.
Over the past two and a half years, we’ve been living in a pandemic. This has impacted our children in so many wa...
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Over the next few months, I’ll be mixing in some of our earlier Motherhood Meets Medicine interviews with new episodes. These ‘best of’ episodes are the most shared and listened to episodes of all time!
Here is today’s featured episode with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, listen as she talks about gun violence and the changes that need to be made.
Gun violence has become a devastating problem in the United States. To put it into perspectiv...
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October 16, 2024 • 62 mins
Over the next few months, I’ll be mixing in some of our earlier Motherhood Meets Medicine interviews with new episodes. These ‘best of’ episodes are the most shared and listened to episodes of all time!
Here is today’s featured episode with Dr. Daryl Johnson, listen as she discusses keeping the spark alive after kids.
Relationships always require a lot of time and energy in order to be successful. This becomes extremely challengi...
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Over the next few months, I’ll be mixing in some of our earlier Motherhood Meets Medicine interviews with new episodes. These ‘best of’ episodes are the most shared and listened to episodes of all time!
Here is today’s featured episode with Dr. Catherine Schmidt as she discusses postpartum depression and or anxiety.
One in five moms experience postpartum depression and/or postpartum anxiety. Recent research shows that half of mom...
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September 25, 2024 • 55 mins
Children are safer today than they have ever been in history, but is that a good thing? What skills and experiences are they losing out on if they’re not exploring the world around them in a way that requires thought and risk?
Dr. Mariana Brussoni is here to share more about this exact phenomenon.
Dr. Brussoni is a Professor at the University of British Columbia, Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, and Investigato...
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September 18, 2024 • 49 mins
Do you ever find yourself worried that your child doesn’t seem motivated to excel or succeed at the things they do in life? Perhaps it’s because they haven’t found their thing. Or maybe it has to do with the way you’re talking to them about their interests.
It’s amazing the changes our children experience as they learn about themselves and grow into the adults that they’ll become. But sometimes sparking their inner drive seems li...
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September 11, 2024 • 49 mins
Are you done having kids, approaching or entering your forties, and trying to figure out why your periods have suddenly become unbearable? It’s very possible you’ve entered perimenopause.
But how do you know for sure and what can you do about all these crazy, whackadoodle symptoms? Vanessa Wieland is here to share her knowledge and expertise as well as the studies that support the various therapies she uses.
Vanessa is an adult...
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September 4, 2024 • 48 mins
It’s amazing how much the order of birth impacts your children’s personalities and your parenting style. Have you ever wondered why it seems like all the babies of the family are outgoing with huge personalities but the oldest children are often quiet and reserved?
It’s because of the birth order and how family resources are used while raising your children.
Dr. Jamison is a therapist and speaker located in Dallas, Texas. She spe...
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July 24, 2024 • 62 mins
The benefits of attachment parenting cannot be overstated. Securely attached kids are more confident, connected and more prepared to enter the world. They also tend to experience fewer health problems.
But why?
Here to share more about the science behind attachment parenting and how we can raise confident connected children is Eli Harwood.
Eli is a licensed therapist who lives in Colorado with her husband and three children. Sh...
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Trying to navigate the world of learning disabilities with your children and just getting more and more confused? Trust me, I know. I’ve been there. Which is why I keep bringing in the experts to provide you ways to understand learning disabilities in the classroom.
Something I just learned was that a lot of the terms that educators have started to use aren’t even true medical diagnoses recognized by medical professionals. Crazy!...
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July 10, 2024 • 54 mins
Access to sexual education for our youth is unbelievably important both from a health standpoint and from an education standpoint. But so many schools these days have sex education as optional and many don’t even require the curriculum to be medically accurate.
That’s why I’m so excited to talk with Tara Jones all about how she’s helping to change the landscape of sexual education.
Tara is a black queer sex educator based in Phi...
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July 3, 2024 • 54 mins
It is not productive to think negatively of our children's teenage years. Instead we need to find ways to embrace this time period and support the changes they’re experiencing while giving them room to grow, learn, and fail with us.
But it seems like all the literature out there is designed to scare and dishearten parents as their children reach these later years. What should we be reading?
Thankfully, Ellen Galinsky decided it w...
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June 26, 2024 • 46 mins
If there was a program out there that could help you plan your weekly meals, come up with fun activities for your kids, give you gift and party ideas and so much more… would you use it?
Fun fact, this does exist! It’s called AI and tools like Chat GPT and Gemini are an amazing way to take off some of the mental load and stress of making day to day decisions. Here to share more is Michelle Tangeman.
Before opening Michelle Tangema...
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Media addiction among children is a huge problem. We know this and you know that I’ve been talking about it for a while. Thankfully there is a movement out there working to make changes at the policy level.
Enter MAMA - Mothers Against Media Addiction, founded by Julie Scelfo.
Julie is a former New York Times journalist, Media Ecologist and founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, otherwise known as MAMA, a grassroots movement ...
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June 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Some really important things are happening in the world of women’s health and reproductive rights. In case you weren’t aware or if you’ve heard of EMTALA and the case that is with the Supreme Court coming out of Idaho, I wanted to bring on an expert to explain what is happening and what it could mean for health care providers in the future.
Alexa is a deputy director at the ACLU reproductive freedom project located in New York Cit...
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June 5, 2024 • 58 mins
Your teenager is meant to make mistakes and push the envelope when it comes to boundaries and expectations. They’re learning who they are as individuals rather than as sons or daughters.
So how do we keep them safe while still letting them try and fail?
It all starts with the boundaries you’re setting with your young children today. If you’re having your very first talk about curfews and drinking with your child as you drop them ...
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May 29, 2024 • 56 mins
Have you ever heard your child say something truly negative about themselves? Do they do it often? We all have a mental talk track that plays in our head through which we process our lives and emotions. So do kids.
What do we do when our kids start to display signs of their talk track becoming negative? Joining me today to share more about why negative self-talk occurs and how to navigate it with our kids is Dr. Emily King.
Dr. K...
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May 22, 2024 • 55 mins
Traveling with children is not for the faint of heart. Leaving everything you’ve ever known along with family and friends to pursue a different lifestyle in a whole new country? Not a decision to be made lightly.
But when you know that you’re being called to something different, you take the leap and see where you land. Christina Dismuke and her husband did just that and she’s here to tell us all about it.
Christina was born and ...
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May 15, 2024 • 66 mins
Protecting our children online is so important. We all know that we need to teach our kids not to share their personal information with strangers online, but what else is there? How can we approach this monumental task with grace and understanding?
Here to share her thoughts is Fareedah Shaheed.
Fareedah is an award winning Internet safety expert and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree. She uses her background in cybersecurity and online...
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Over the next few months, I’ll be mixing in some of our earlier Motherhood Meets Medicine interviews with new episodes. These ‘best of’ episodes are the most shared and listened to episodes of all time!
Here is today’s featured episode with Kate Mangino, PhD all about unlearning traditional gender norms in the household.
Gender norms are slowly changing in the everyday household. Men used to be the income providers and bring home ...
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