Hi, everybody, and welcome to you, Coach's Corner.

Well, this has been a long-awaited episode for me to bring to you because for decades

now, I have been coaching people, a lot of whom have been mothers.

On just the motherhood journey and mom guilt, and now that I'm in it myself, I'm realizing

a lot of the advice I gave is often hard to digest and hard to implement.

There are so many layers to be in a mother, and I wanted to bring on a woman who's been

on the show before Ellen Bader, who talked about attachment styles last time she was on

the show.

She's also a friend of mine and just an amazing licensed psychotherapist, and we've talked

about mom guilt off air and have had such great conversations that I wanted to bring it

on air.

We dive into so much here attachment theory, parenting guilt, why there's more mom guilt

than dad guilt, the emotional load that women tend to carry, how to forgive yourself if

you're doing the consciousness work now, and you're looking back at how you parented

your perhaps older children and beating yourself up and so much more.

So as I said, Ellen Bader is a licensed psychotherapist since 2003, after getting married and becoming

a mother to two children, now 12 and 14, she began to focus primarily on couples in her

private psychotherapy and coaching practice.

She's a certified practitioner of the psychobiological approach to couple therapy, which is a modality

for couples founded by Stan Taktan.

She enjoys teaching and consulting on relationship topics, writing her blog on motherhood and relationships,

and is fascinated by nature, spirituality, human development, and studies a wider range

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