Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother
Are you navigating the wild ride of motherhood without the support of your mother? When your mom is absent due to estrangement, illness, distance, or loss, the journey of motherhood can feel especially heavy and heart-wrenching.
Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother is the go-to podcast for moms who lack maternal support and desire to make peace with the past, build confidence in their present role, and break harmful generational patterns for the future. This show empowers moms to achieve lasting results, such as improved emotional regulation, breaking cycles of dysfunction, and fostering a healthy family environment.
Alyssa Carlene, your host, is a dedicated mom on a mission. With emotional depth and passion drawn from her transformative journey, she proves that the absence of a motherly figure can make you stronger—and that you don't have to face this path alone. Through her 5-step ROOTS framework, listeners will learn to Recognize harmful patterns, Own their stories, Open their hearts to forgiveness, Transform limiting beliefs, and Set new boundaries.
If you've been asking questions like:
- How can I make peace with the past and be the best parent for my children?
- How can I build confidence in my present role as a mother?
- What can I do to break unhealthy and harmful generational cycles?
- How do I set healthy boundaries with my mother and/or other family members?
- What are ways I can foster emotional resilience?
- Where can I find support navigating motherhood without my mom?
- What are the potential root causes of my chronic pain and mental health struggles?
- How can I create a healthier and stable home environment for my family?
- What are some alternative methods for overcoming the wounds of my past?
- How do I stop people pleasing so I can better care for my needs?
- How can I open my heart to forgiveness to move forward and continue healing myself?
Are you ready to transform yourself and cultivate the loving home you’ve always dreamed of and deserve? Then this show is for you!
Episodes
35 episodes
When Motherhood Feels Lonely: How to Care for Yourself & Connect
You might be surrounded by your kids all day long and still feel incredibly lonely. Maybe you don’t have a strong circle of mom friends to lean on. And if you’re navigating motherhood without the support of your mom, that loneliness can feel ev...
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Episode 21
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11:03
20. Ten Reasons to Join the Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother Facebook Group
Are you looking for a supportive space where you can vent, feel understood, and connect with other moms who truly get what it’s like to navigate motherhood without your mother? Today on the podcast, join Alyssa Carlene to hear TEN p...
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Episode 20
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10:00
19. Why a Supportive Community is the Missing Piece to Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mom
If you're navigating motherhood without your mother, a supportive community is your missing piece to healing, alignment, and validation! You were never meant to mother alone. And for moms without moms, that isolation can run ...
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Episode 19
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9:54
18. Five Steps to Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother
Are you stepping into a season of motherhood where you claim your power, even without the support you always deserved?Join Alyssa Carlene as she shares the exciting news about her free video training: Five Steps to Navigating Motherho...
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Episode 18
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6:49
17. Why Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother Feels So Hard
There’s something people don’t talk about enough: how utterly alone, lost, and overwhelmed you can feel when you’re raising children without the presence or support of your mother. In today's episode, join Alyssa Carlene as s...
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Episode 17
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8:50
16. Four Practices to Shut Down Negative Thoughts
As a mom, do you ever feel like negative thoughts have taken over your headspace? In this quick episode, Alyssa Carlene shares four simple, real-life practices to help you shut down that inner critic and bring your mindset back to c...
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Episode 16
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9:40
15. How to Open Your Heart to Forgiveness
Have you ever carried a hurt so deep that it changed the way you saw yourself or the world? Perhaps you've held on—not because you wanted to, but because you didn't know how to let go. In today's episode, Alyssa Carlene explores the...
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Episode 15
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17:22
14. Three Ways to Become an Emotionally Resilient Mom
You don’t need to be a perfect mom, but you can become a resilient one! Emotional resilience is like a muscle- built upon practice, passion, and intention. This episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother will show you how...
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Episode 14
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12:50
13. When Mother's Day Hurts: Honoring Your Feelings with Grace
Mother's Day can be a challenging holiday for a mom who is grieving her mother because of loss, distance, or estrangement. Does this resonate with you? Today's episode is for anyone who may find this day more painful than peaceful. ...
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Episode 13
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15:42
12. Grieving a Mother Who is Still Alive
Are you grieving a mother who is still alive? This feels like mourning a maternal relationship that is unresolved, confusing, or missing something essential, like the love, safety, or presence you needed but didn’t receive from her.
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Episode 12
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17:42
11. Why Gratitude Shifts the Energy of Your Home
Would you like a simple way to quickly shift the energy of your home? Motherhood can be extremely loud and exhausting—and sometimes the tone at home starts to match that chaos. In this episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your M...
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Episode 11
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12:31
10. A Mantra for the Motherless Mother
Whether your mother is absent through loss, distance, or pain, this offering is here to hold you. Today, Alyssa Carlene delivers a beautiful mantra that honors your grief, growth, and the sacred work of re-mothering yourself as you ...
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Episode 10
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6:18
9. How to Sit with Uncomfortable Emotions in Motherhood
Do you ever feel shame or guilt as a mom for feeling negative and uncomfortable emotions tied to motherhood? If so, you're not alone!Today on the podcast, Alyssa Carlene shares why feeling difficult emotions can be hard for mothers, what...
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Episode 9
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14:01
8. When Motherhood Feels Heavy: Three Ways to Lift the Load
Are you in a stage of motherhood that feels excruciatingly heavy? If you're in the trenches, this episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother is for you. Alyssa Carlene opens up about the deep difficulties she's experiencin...
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Episode 8
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15:37
7. Break Free from the Victim Mentality & Finally Own Your Story
Are you ready to reclaim your life and truly own your story? Today's episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother is about breaking free from the victim mentality and stepping into a place of healing, strength, and ownership...
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Episode 7
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17:56
6. How to Build Confidence in Your Abilities as a Mother
Are you ready to build confidence in your abilities as a mother? In this episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother, Alyssa Carlene empowers you to develop deep self-trust while fostering your self-worth. She sha...
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Episode 6
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12:10
5. Six Destructive Generational Patterns & How to Break Them
Have you ever reacted to a situation without thinking—only to realize later that it was a destructive pattern? In today's episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother, Alyssa Carlene dives into the Six P's of Destructive ...
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Episode 5
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25:22
4. Why Recognizing Harmful Patterns is the First Step in Your Transformative Journey
How many of us mothers walk through life repeating patterns that were modeled for us as children without even realizing it? In today’s conversation, Alyssa Carlene guides you through how and why recognizing ha...
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Episode 4
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10:02
3. Ten Steps to Heal Childhood Wounds
Motherhood sure has a way of bringing up childhood wounds we thought were behind us. Have you ever felt this happen? In this episode of Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother, Alyssa Carlene walks you through 10 powerful steps to...
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Episode 3
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15:02
2. How to Heal & Thrive Without Maternal Support
Have you ever felt helpless and confused navigating motherhood without maternal support? Do you want to become the mother you needed and create a new legacy for your children? In this episode, Alyssa Carlene breaks down the how<...
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Episode 2
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20:08
1. Welcome to Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother
Are you navigating the wild ride that is motherhood without the support of your mother? Welcome to Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother! The mission of this new podcast is to help motherless mothers recognize harmf...
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Episode 1
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14:10
Trailer: Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother
Are you navigating motherhood without your mom? Motherhood is challenging, and doing it without your own mother's support can feel isolating, heartbreaking, and discouraging. Navigating Motherhood Without Your Mother is the go-to po...
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Farewell Uproot and Uplift...Hello Podcast Rebrand!
*If you are listening to this show after 02/25/25, this episode was a part of Uproot and Uplift (the previous show) - since then, there has been a rebrand. The information is still relevant to moms who lack support from their mothers to make...
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6:18
Donna Irene: Hope, Acceptance and Surrender Amidst Chronic Pain
*If you are listening to this show after 02/25/25, this episode was a part of Uproot and Uplift (the previous show) - since then, there has been a rebrand. The information is still relevant to moms who lack support from their mothers to make...
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23:39
Sheena Rydings: Breaking the Cycle of Perfectionism and Chronic Pain
*If you are listening to this show after 02/25/25, this episode was a part of Uproot and Uplift (the previous show) - since then, there has been a rebrand. The information is still relevant to moms who lack support from their mothers to make...
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