Motherhood can be beautiful and also incredibly isolating.

In this episode of If These Walls Could Talk, Carrie sits down with Karla, a mom of two and member of The Mama Healing Hub, to talk about what motherhood has really looked like for her behind the scenes.

From navigating the everyday chaos of parenting (including the never-ending adventure of potty training) to the emotional highs and lows that come with raising young kids, Karla shares honestly about her motherhood journey and why finding community has made such a difference.

Karla also opens up about her experience inside The Mama Healing Hub, a therapist-led community created for mothers who want a space to reflect, connect, and feel supported in the complexity of motherhood.

In this conversation, she shares:

• why community support matters so much for moms• what it actually feels like to be inside the Hub• how the Hub creates space for reflection and self-care• the role creative expression and art therapy have played in her journey• the friendships and connections that can form when moms are honest with each other

Karla describes the Hub as “like therapy at your fingertips” .

If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying the emotional weight of motherhood on your own, this episode is a powerful reminder that you don’t have to.

About The Mama Healing Hub

The Mama Healing Hub is a therapist-led community for mothers who want more than surface-level conversations about motherhood.

Inside the Hub, moms come together to talk honestly about parenting, relationships, identity shifts, and emotional wellbeing.

The space includes:

• therapist-facilitated drop-ins• therapeutic art sessions• community discussions and daily reflections• conversations about motherhood, marriage, identity, and mental health

It’s designed to be a safe, supportive space where mothers don’t have to carry everything alone.

Learn more about the Hub here {The Mama Healing Hub}

In this episode, host Vanessa Spinarsky shares a deeply personal story about navigating chronic health struggles, gut inflammation, and the emotional toll of living in a body that doesn’t always cooperate.

For years, Vanessa received different diagnoses , depression, PMDD, IBS, colitis , yet none of them fully explained what she was experiencing.

Seeking deeper answers, she recently underwent functional testing that revealed surprising insights about her gut microbiome and serotonin production.

In this conversation, Vanessa explores how the gut and brain communicate, and how factors like chronic stress, trauma, and lifestyle patterns may influence that relationship.

This episode is not about prescribing solutions. Instead, Vanessa offers a transparent look at her personal journey .. sharing what she has learned so far and the questions she continues to explore.

Listeners who have ever felt confused by their symptoms, frustrated by unclear diagnoses, or curious about the gut-brain connection may find this conversation especially meaningful.

Connect with Vanessa

Instagram: @vanessaspinarsky

This episode discusses Vanessa’s personal health experiences and perspectives. It is not medical advice. Listeners should consult qualified healthcare professionals for individualized medical care.

Parenting can quietly turn partners into logistics managers.

You’re coordinating lunches, school forms, bedtime routines, and who’s picking up from daycare but somewhere along the way, the connection between you can start to feel thinner.

In this episode, Vanessa, Carrie, and Alyssa talk honestly about what it actually looks like to stay connected in a relationship after kids .

They explore why many couples struggle to prioritize their relationship once they become parents, the anxiety that can come up around trusting childcare, and why “date nights” don’t always have to mean expensive dinners or elaborate plans.

This episode also explores how community support between moms can make a huge difference ... from trading childcare to simply having other women who understand the complexity of raising kids while trying to maintain a relationship.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• How do we actually stay connected after kids?

• Why does it feel easier to manage parenting logistics than emotional intimacy?

• What do we do when anxiety about childcare makes it hard to get time together?

• How can couples reconnect without needing elaborate date nights?

This conversation is for you.

If This Conversation Resonates…

These are exactly the kinds of conversations we continue inside The Mama Healing Hub.

The Hub is a therapist-led community for mothers who want more honest conversations about motherhood, relationships, identity, and the emotional realities of raising kids.

Inside the Hub we host:

• therapist-facilitated drop-ins• marriage & relationship conversations• therapeutic art sessions• community discussions with other moms navigating similar experiences

It’s a space where you don’t have to perform motherhood .... you can actually talk about it.

You can learn more here:
The Mama Healing Hub & use CODE PODCAST for 25% off your membership

In this powerful episode Alyssa Trittler sits down with registered massage therapist and doula Deborah Koumoutsidis for a conversation many women never hear but deeply need before, during, and after birth.

Together, they explore the profound connection between a woman’s body and her birth experience, and why empowerment in the birthing room begins with trust, informed consent, and understanding your right to advocate for yourself.

Deborah shares insights from years of supporting mothers through pregnancy and postpartum, highlighting how birth plans should be personalized and flexible, and why feeling connected to your body matters just as much as medical preparation.

The conversation also sheds light on postpartum realities that are often minimized including pain, recovery challenges, and epidural-related injuries ... emphasizing that ongoing discomfort is not something mothers simply have to accept.

Through hands-on body support, education, and community care, healing becomes possible not just physically, but emotionally as well.

This episode is a reminder that women are not fragile in birth .....they are powerful.

Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, or simply wanting to understand birth and maternal wellbeing more deeply, this conversation invites you to reconnect with your body, your voice, and your choices.

Stay Connected

If this conversation resonated with you, make sure to follow the podcast so you don’t miss future episodes exploring motherhood, healing, relationships, and the realities women deserve to talk about more openly.

💛 Share this episode with someone who may need to hear this conversation ... especially a mother, expecting parent, or support person preparing for birth.

If you’re looking for deeper support and ongoing conversations like this, we continue this work every week inside The Mama Healing Hub - a therapist-led community offering connection, education, and real support for mothers navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

✨ Learn more or join us by clicking here

Connect With Deborah

Follow Deborah and learn more about her work supporting women through birth and postpartum:

📱 Instagram: @deborahthedoula
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🌿 Website: www.pelviclove.com

In this episode of The Mom Room - Carrie sits down with naturopathic doctor Dr. Lindsay Martens to explore women’s hormone health and the wisdom of the menstrual cycle.

Together, they unpack what a healthy cycle actually looks like, why so many common symptoms are misunderstood as “normal,” and how tracking your cycle can deepen awareness of your energy, mood, and overall wellbeing. Dr. Lindsay shares practical insight on fertility, sleep, and hormone balance, while also discussing how we can better support young girls in understanding their bodies without shame or confusion.

This conversation is equal parts educational and empowering .. a reminder that women’s bodies aren’t unpredictable, they’re communicative, and learning to listen can change how we care for ourselves at every stage of life.

If This Episode Spoke to You…

If you found yourself thinking “why don’t we talk about this more?” .... you’re not alone.

Inside The Mama Healing Hub, we continue conversations like this every week: real discussions about women’s health, identity shifts, motherhood, relationships, nervous systems, and the invisible experiences women carry.

The podcast is where the conversations begin.
The Hub is where you get to be part of them.

✨ You can learn more here: [Hub Link]

Connect with Dr. Lindsay Martens

To learn more about Dr. Lindsay’s work in naturopathic medicine and women’s hormone health, you can visit her website at drlindsaymartens.com or follow her on Instagram at @drlindsaymartens for education, resources, and ongoing conversations around menstrual and hormone wellness.

If this episode resonated with you:

• Follow If These Walls Could Talk so you don’t miss upcoming conversations

• Share this episode with a friend, sister, or daughter who deserves to understand her body differently

• Leave a review .... it helps more women find conversations like these

Because understanding ourselves was never meant to happen alone.

Pregnancy loss is a grief many mothers carry quietly often without language, support, or space to be witnessed.

In this deeply honest episode, Carrie Parker and Alyssa Trittler explore the emotional reality of pregnancy loss, the mental health impact that follows, and what it truly means to hold space for grief instead of trying to fix it.

Alyssa shares her personal experience navigating loss and pregnancy after loss .. including the fear, uncertainty, and emotional complexity that many families experience but rarely talk about openly.

Together, they discuss how grief lives alongside motherhood, why healing doesn’t follow a timeline, and practical ways to support yourself or someone you love through loss.

This conversation is for anyone who has experienced pregnancy loss, supported someone who has, or wants a more compassionate understanding of maternal mental health.

✨ If this episode resonates, follow the podcast so more mothers can find conversations like this.

This podcast is part of The Mama Healing Hub, a therapist-led space supporting mothers through the emotional realities of modern motherhood including burnout, identity shifts, relationships, mental health, and healing.

We believe mothers deserve conversations that are honest, nuanced, and deeply human.

👉 Follow the podcast to stay connected to future episodes.
👉 Learn more about The Mama Healing Hub

In this episode, Vanessa Spinarsky sits down with naturopathic doctor Dr. Annaleeza Caputi to talk about Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) not just as a hormonal condition, but as an experience that deeply impacts identity, relationships, and motherhood.

Together, they explore what PMDD actually is, how it differs from PMS, and why it often goes unrecognized for years.

Both Annaleeza and Vanessa share their personal experience of discovering cyclical mood changes after motherhood and bring insight into the biological and psychological treatment perspectives.

This conversation moves beyond awareness into nuance exploring the nervous system, shame, relational rupture and repair, and what it means to parent while navigating cyclical emotional vulnerability.

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t recognize yourself during certain times of the month , or wondered why your capacity seems to disappear , this episode offers language, context, and compassion.

Because your hardest days are not your identity.

There’s a version of partnership we imagine before kids and then there’s the one we’re living inside afterward. The one shaped by sleep deprivation, mental load, shifting identities, and the quiet pressure to keep everything together.

In this conversation, host Vanessa Spinarky and guest Eli Weinstein explore the emotional transition from “I do” to “we do” ... not as a romantic milestone, but as a relational and nervous system shift.

They talk about postpartum anxiety in partners, the way both people can feel unseen at the same time, and how communication changes when survival mode becomes the backdrop of daily life.

This episode holds space for couples who don’t feel broken, but do feel tired. For parents who still love each other, but don’t always know how to reach each other. It’s about staying in connection, even when capacity is low and the relationship feels more like a system than a sanctuary.

🔗 Stay Connected

Follow Vanessa on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/vanessa.spinarsky

Follow Eli on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/eliweinstein_lcsw

📘 Pre-Order Eli’s Book — From I Do to We Do

Canadian Amazon
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1394318693

U.S. Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Parenting-Eli-Weinstein/dp/1394318693

Order via Eli’s Website
https://www.eliweinsteinlcsw.com/book

🎧 Listen to Eli’s Podcast

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