Hello, Frick Foodie fam. Welcome back to another Solo podcast episode. This one has been one that I've been like having in my back pocket for a week where I just have a lot going on and I'm tired and I don't have the like where with all to fully organized like go through notes really use my brain to do like an in-depth solo episode and I am pretty freaking tired.

I just feel the summer I actually always felt this way in the summer and I think it always hits like right around July because it's that middle point where like I'm still excited for everything ahead but I've noticed that it's begun happening where I feel just like constantly behind in the summer because there's so much going on for us like we just have plans a lot of plans and when there's stuff that's happening on the weekend I just feel like I'm constantly playing catch up and it's all really fun stuff it's

I'm so excited by I am so grateful and excited for all the stuff we have going on I just feel like I'm constantly like treading trying to stay above water with my personal life my social life work like everything so I just feel like a lot a lot is going on so today's episode is going to be and ask me anything because I needed your guys' assistance and honestly having a conversation so we'll see where this episode goes.

Episode takes us I also want to say that there are a few topics I have that I definitely want to do solo episodes on and I've kind of hinted at some but intimacy and sex life postpartum I want to dive in again to like the decision to not drink and I think maybe that'll be next week or the week after but what that looks like for me personally right now also when it comes to cannabis and all of those things with these

these solo episodes I am trying to do like a mix of parenting and non parenting so we do want to talk about like social media and parenting and mom guilt and comparisons as well as I mentioned intimacy post baby but then I also want to talk about some non parenting topics like post grad reflections life pre freckled foodie what I wish I did differently in my 20s how to stop comparing your timeline to others setting boundaries like having conversations with your family and

setting boundaries when it comes to diet culture so oh making friends and friend breakups there's a lot coming and I asked you guys for feedback on like topics you wanted and those are

handful of them I also this is so interesting for me and do I regret doing this I'm not sure I asked if you don't listen to the show like can you provide any

constructive reason of why and this is where I get caught up in the like it's helpful to have feedback but at the same time I can't

please everyone so then it's like okay well whose feedback do you listen to and majority of the feedback was like I just I'm not a podcast girl

which look I get it's really hard to bring people onto platforms if they're not already on them the other thing was like I listen to podcast

strictly for news I'm never going to tell you to listen to my show over like the daily or anything like that so I'm I'm proud of you for

that if you have time for extras sure added in but do not make me the priority but then there are ones that's like

you know I wish you talked less about being a mom and I'm like I fucking get it if I wasn't a mom

my parenting episodes would be like this is so annoying or not annoying I just can't relate but then there are ones

that are like I wish you were talking more about being a mom and that's where I'm like look I can't please

everyone so I'm just gonna continue to do what I'm enjoying and what makes me happy and hopefully we will find

people along the way that agree and if you're listening to this I assume you're one of them so I love you

and thank you for listening okay let's let's play a little ask me anything

all right some of the questions there were a lot of questions about booze and like mushrooms and weed

and all of that but I do think that I'm gonna make that a separate episode so we're gonna bench all

of those well so we'll start with a heavy hitter when did you start medication and were you on it

during your pregnancy so for those of you who have been following for a long time I have been

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