Take What You Need with Aundi Kolber

Coffee + Crumbs Podcast

Ashlee Gadd

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Toddlers, Friendship, Pregnancy, Grace, Coffee, Adoption, Miscarriage, Parenting, Motherhood, Newborn, Christianity, Crumbs

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

One of our all-time favorite guests, Aundi Kolber—author, mother, and therapist—is back, and today she’s encouraging us to take what we need. Aundi sheds light on how and why we end up disembodied, how to reclaim connection with our God-given needs (especially as moms), and how we can play the role of participant in our own healing. Whether you’re struggling to notice what you’re lacking or struggling to prioritize your own care, we adore Aundi’s nudge to approach ourselves and circumstances with tenderness, but also a touch of fierceness that proclaims, “I matter.”

This show is brought to you ad-free by our generous Substack community. If you’d like to support the work we do for as little as $3/month, head to coffeeandcrumbs.substack.com to join us (and get bonus episodes!). For show notes, go to coffeeandcrumbs.net/podcast.

Aundi helped us tune into our needs. Listen to this bonus episode, How to Ask Better Questions, for some ideas to learn what’s important to others in your life.

For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.

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0:00.0	We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science.
0:07.2	We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together.
0:12.7	Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work.
0:16.9	At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved.
0:22.4	This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast.
0:28.8	Hello, friends.
0:30.3	Welcome to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast.
0:32.9	You know, it's honestly not all that often that we have returned guests to our show. But back in the fall of
0:40.1	2002, I believe, we did an episode on motherhood and trauma with Andy Colbert. And though we had
0:47.2	really always loved Andy's work, we pretty much fell in love with Andy as a person after that. And we knew that she was
0:56.7	someone who we would be so happy to have back on the podcast pretty much anytime we could get
1:03.6	her. And today, friends, you are in luck because we get to hang out with the fabulous Andi
1:08.9	Colbert today. And I do need to say, like, right from the jump that
1:12.8	we happen to be recording this on a day where I'm feeling, I don't know, let's call it tender.
1:18.8	And I don't know, maybe a lot of us are. But I just know that there's like a 99.9% chance.
1:24.9	I'm going to just break down weeping at some point because we are in the presence of
1:29.4	somebody whose kindness and warmth just sort of welcomes that level of emotional honesty.
1:35.2	So y'all, if I cry, it's Andi's fault. Okay. So on that note, Andi, welcome to the show.
1:43.1	Oh, wow. Well, what an introduction.
1:45.9	And thank you so much.
1:47.5	It's really good to be with you.
1:49.1	And I consider that a high honor when someone feels safe enough to really be where they are.
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