Mother of Success

Join me for the conclusion of my podcast series on how I have actively and intentionally mothered myself using my own set of tools and practices during my ongoing period of mourning. How does a professional coach undertake coaching herself? How does a scheduling expert adjust her schedule? How does this translate perfectly into the real lives of new working mothers who use my tools and practices? I’ve got all the insights, the surprising new discoveries, the ongoing challenges, and the inspiration for you to begin to mother yourself here in this one episode! Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Your burning questions answered! Why do I keep saying that motherhood is not natural? How do you deal with people in your life who are less than pleased that you are operating under a new schedule that does not prioritize the world in their way any longer? And why am I stubbornly refusing to tell you if your schedule looks good to me or not?  Today's episode answers some of the questions that I've been receiving about my Schedule Simplicity Solution for New Working Mothers podcast series. These are important topics for everyone who is adjusting to working motherhood. If you would like to start using my scheduling process, you can start with Episode 16 of the podcast and listen as I teach it from the beginning.  Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Today’s episode is a continuation of my conversation from Episode 39 of how I am taking care of myself during my grief following the loss of my father in early June. It’s a real-time summary showing how I walk the walk and talk the talk of my own coaching practice. I’m managing my time, managing my energy, and taking amazing care of myself right now using the exact tools and practices I use with my clients. Connect with Heather and fill out the form to get on my schedule: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

I am practicing what I preach in a big way these days. Listen to this episode for all the details as to how I am implementing my own tools and following my own advice while I grieve the loss of my father earlier this month. My tools and my coaching skill set that I teach are really serving me well right now, and I am so grateful for all of them. As I have said before on the podcast, I learned all of these skills since I became a working mother, and I now teach these to other working mothers. This is the practice of mothering myself in real time, and you can learn a lot just by listening to my current experience. Connect with Heather: Website where you can fill out the form to schedule time with me: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Did you know that you are allowed to redefine your definition of efficiency now that you are a working mother? Yep. Efficiency for us used to look like doing 50 things without breaking a sweat. We made it look almost effortless. Most of us were the most efficient people we knew. And now that baby has arrived? It’s a totally different ballgame. I think this is one of the most stark and jarring differences for working women who are new mothers. The before baby and after baby real time experience of yourself and your schedule and your life changes so profoundly. Without guidance, we really struggle to adjust, especially when we have a lot of self-identity and relationship patterns that are tied up in our old version of hyper-efficiency. In today’s episode, I will teach you a process for how to redefine efficiency to your version of “mom efficiency.” What does that look like for you right now in your current experience of working motherhood? This process is one of the most freeing and helpful ones you can undertake, especially if you prided yourself on being very efficient or a perfectionist in the past. Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Working mothers have lots of jobs to do. We also have the job to do of making sure that we see our life beyond those jobs to do. Go big-picture with me on today’s important episode where I explain how we come to be so miserable while simultaneously so successful at doing to jobs of working motherhood. We get so caught up in the functions of our day-to-day existence that we neglect some critical needs that we have. And we have this perverse brain chemistry that is creating a loop of false satisfaction.  The false satisfaction leaves us feeling like we are treading water as working mothers - doing all the jobs but never feeling better. Meaningful improvements to your experience of working motherhood lie on the other side of this big-picture perspective.  Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Feeling overwhelmed with the changing nature of the pandemic? Pandemic dynamics are adjusting very quickly here during May of 2021, including new government guidelines that are still being implemented at the time of this recording. Some of us can’t wait to get back to something that looks like “normal” while others of us are alarmed by the abrupt fluctuations to mask wearing and distancing guidelines. Couple these adjustments with new working motherhood, and it can be a lot to process. Today’s episode is where you find your footing. Put my “Mother Knows Best” concept to work for you immediately as you make decisions about how to move forward in your own life and work. I meet you where you are right now and give you full permission to pandemic (or not) in any way that serves your highest good as a new working mother. Even after this immediate wave of decision making comes and goes, this episode will still be intensely valuable to new working mothers who are adapting to profound change. Seriously, you are, and you always will be, the mother who knows best how to run her life! Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Mother Knows Best can be a challenging concept for some of us. It’s important to take the time and demystify why that is the case. In today’s episode, I go deep into why you might be struggling to use this specific tool on a day-to-day basis. The reason for your struggle could be simple resistance that is a normal function of the human brain, and I have the perfect brain hack for you to implement immediately. From there, we dive into self-trust, the inherent discomfort of the identity shift that all new mothers are undergoing, and the long list of societal, cultural, and systematic reasons that some of us struggle to believe that we do, in fact, know best. Our ability to put innovative tools and concepts like Mother Knows Best to work for us makes all the difference in our experience of working motherhood. Join me so that you can enjoy the ease and peace available to you on the other side of this conversation. Also, if the past weekend was your first Mother’s Day, and if you found that day to be really hard, this episode will change your life! Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Tune in for some insightful examples of the Mother Knows Best concept that I introduced in the last episode. Let’s get very explicit about how this concept provides you with powerful shifts toward a more positive experience of working motherhood. We put the thoughts “I don’t know” and “Mother Knows Best” up against each other to specifically illustrate what these shifts look like in reality. I work through several examples from my own experience to highlight how I have used Mother Knows Best, both in my early days of motherhood and as recently as yesterday! Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching

Mother knows best, and that mother is you! Today’s episode invites you to step into “Mother Knows Best” as a concept, an identity, and a mantra. It is the perfect antidote for those of you who are thinking “I don’t know” what to do to improve your experience of working motherhood. When viewed through the lens of “Mother Knows Best,” many of the places where you might currently feel confused or stuck will instead become places where you can find clarity and access your own inner wisdom. I teach the concept of “Mother Knows Best” to clients at every step of their journey. I am teaching it to you in this episode and will be back next week with some specific examples of what “Mother Knows Best” can do for a new working mother just like you. Connect with Heather: Website: https://heatherhennessey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heatherhennesseylifecoach/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heather.hennessey.180 and https://www.facebook.com/HeatherHennesseyLifeCoaching