Mia Hemstad: "Need to Better Prioritize Your Self-Care? Here's HOW, Especially When Life is Full"

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Think self-care is just another chore for moms—or something meant for someone else? In this eye-opening session, Mia Hemstad speaks on why true self-care is about so much more than calendars and checklists. Through honest stories of burnout and renewal, Mia introduces her Four Bs framework and uncovers the real obstacles holding moms back: beliefs, boundaries, and the pressure to be everything for everyone. If you’re ready to break free from guilt, redefine what it means to care for yourself, and discover practical ways to reclaim your energy and joy, press play and start your journey toward a version of you that is deeply cared for. FREEBIE for all: The 4B Self-Care Framework© guide download BONUS raffled off to All-Access Pass Holders: Rituals that Replenish: The Workshop Get the Basic Pass to watch and/or read each speaker session for free through Sunday, October 12th. Upgrade to the All-Access Pass for ad-free listening on a private podcast feed, + lifetime access to all content visual, audio, and written. Mia Hemstad is a mom of two kids, a maternal mental health policy advocate, and the founder of The No Longer Last Journey®, which is a global movement empowering mothers to make their well-being a priority. As an abuse survivor who lives with PTSD, Mia understands what it’s like to be a cycle-breaking mom with mental health challenges. Her realistic approach to self-care and honest motherhood stories have led to features in Romper and Yahoo and has brought together an online community of over 8,000 people. Mia currently lives with her husband and two children in Portugal. FOLLOW ON IG WEBSITE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,
0:06.2	The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,
0:11.9	habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available
0:17.1	on the public about progress feed through Sunday, October 12th. For ad-free video and
0:22.1	audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the
0:27.4	conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com slash more for moms. Now
0:33.4	on to our special session.
0:44.0	Thank you. Now on to our special session. Mia Hempstead, a big welcome to the Moore for Mom's Conference.
0:47.7	We're so happy to have you here.
0:49.6	I am so excited to be here, Monica.
0:52.0	I think self-care is one of those phrases that a lot of women hear and they think they know what it means. And they also might discount themselves from the conversation, one, because they've heard about it so much. But two, they also think, who, who has time for that? How? I don't have time. How can I do it? I can't. But that's what we're going to level on both
1:12.0	friends with them today and what self-care really is and the how, how they can make it happen.
1:17.0	I wanted to begin with the signs, though, of what they can maybe look for to know if they are
1:22.5	actually in need of self-care. And we'll, of course, talk about what that actually looks like. But how
1:28.1	should they know? I loved that question that you sent over because I think if anyone is discounting
1:35.0	themselves or counting themselves out from this, it's moms, right? We don't have the time.
1:38.7	We don't have the energy. We don't have the resources. So we're the first ones to say,
1:42.6	no, I'm good. I can push through one more day.
1:44.9	Just give me one more cup of coffee. So just start out with helping our listeners get some
1:49.3	awareness and check in with themselves is a really good place to start. So how do you know if
1:54.7	you're in need of some self-care? I think number one go-to is you're irritable. You're irritable
1:59.9	with yourself. You're irritable with
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