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The Mom Room

EP94. Pandemic Parenting and Mental Health, with Jess from Our Mama Village

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

EP94. Founder of Our Mama Village, Jessica VanderWier, shares her own pandemic birth story and explains how pandemic parenting has lead to feelings of burnout, dysregulation, and feelings of guilt and shame for many parents. Renee and Jess discuss how important it is for parents to fill their own cup and take care of themselves during these difficult parenting moments. 

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible

0:27.9

to know what's real and what's BS.

0:30.7

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0:35.3

their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the

0:38.6

fundamental secret to good health. Listen to bite back wherever you get your podcasts.

0:44.9

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1:10.8

Welcome to Tuesday's episode. How is everyone doing? I'm pretty sure if you're living in the U.S.,

1:18.3

you just had an Uber long weekend. I only know this because I listened to the morning

1:23.8

toast every day and they were talking about how Friday and Monday are a holiday.

1:28.4

We just got off of a long weekend, although it was just a holiday Monday, which is fine.

1:34.7

But I mean, in Ontario, things are still not open.

1:37.7

So we did lots of outdoor things like we went to a farmer's market.

1:43.0

We drove around the area and looked at horses because there's

1:47.5

lots of animals and farms around here. I know people get confused because they're like,

1:52.3

I thought you lived in Toronto, but we live on the outskirts of Toronto, so it takes me about

1:56.8

45 minutes to get right downtown. We have lots of greenery out here and wide open spaces, as the Dixie Chicks would say.

2:05.6

Wide open spaces.

2:09.0

Anyways, we ended up having a really lovely weekend.

2:12.8

So the rules in Ontario right now are that you can have up to five people in your backyard. Like,

2:20.2

whoa, party time. So my good friend Kathy and her daughter, who is, she just turned two. They came over

2:28.7

and Milo and her had a play date, if you will. We had the sprinkler going. We ate a shit ton of berries and watermelon.

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