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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, Navigating Your Parenting Triggers with Nat Vikitsreth

279: Navigating Parenting Triggers // Nat Vikitsreth

By Rachel Nielson | Mar 20, 2023

In today’s episode, we are going to be discussing how to navigate our parenting triggers. A trigger in parenting is a small action, often done by our children, that releases a spring within us the parent and sets off a reaction. This reaction can sometimes feel like it is exploding out of us against our…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, When Your Child Says, “I Hate You!” with Rachel Nielson

278: When your Child Says “I Hate You!”

By Rachel Nielson | Mar 13, 2023

My son Noah’s birth-dad recently came to stay with us for a long weekend. We do this every winter– Noah and Drew snowboard together, we go out to eat, we play board games, and it is truly a highlight of our year. As I was reflecting back on the many years that we’ve been doing…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, When Parenting Doesn’t Go as Planned with Michelle Barrow

277: When Parenting Doesn’t Go as Planned // Michelle Barrow

By Rachel Nielson | Mar 6, 2023

Don’t we all just crave the friendship of women who will open up their hearts and share their ups and downs and their biggest life lessons with us? Today’s episode is a peek into my friendship with one such woman who has blessed my life so much in the almost six years since I moved…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, How to Stop Giving the "Silent Treatment" after a Fight featuring Jocelyn and Aaron Freeman.

276: How to Stop Giving the “Silent Treatment” after a Fight // Aaron and Jocelyn Freeman

By Rachel Nielson | Feb 27, 2023

Is it easy or difficult for you to repair and “make up” after a fight with your spouse?  Today I am re-airing an episode that originally aired just over a year ago all about how to repair with your partner after a fight. The guests are Aaron and Jocelyn Freeman who you might know from…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, 3 Ways to Step Back so your Kids can Step Up with JoAnn Crohn

275: 3 Ways to Step Back so your Kids can Step Up // JoAnn Crohn

By Rachel Nielson | Feb 20, 2023

We’ve talked often on this podcast about the weight of the mental load that moms carry.  But what if we could let some of that go simply by stepping back? Stepping back from carrying it all and allowing our children to take more ownership and responsibility for their lives, their choices, their needs, and their…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, How to Support your Partner through a Faith Crisis featuring Kattie Mount

274: How to Support Someone you Love through a Faith Crisis // Kattie Mount

By Rachel Nielson | Feb 13, 2023

If you are listening to this episode right when it airs, it’s the week of Valentines Day, and I thought that called for a special episode all about relationships–specifically how to navigate the most important relationships in our lives when one of us is experiencing a shift in religious belief. This can feel disorienting, devastating,…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, Navigating a Faith Crisis: 3 Things I Want You to Know with host Rachel Nielson

273: Navigating a Faith Crisis: 3 Things I Want You to Know

By Rachel Nielson | Feb 6, 2023

Today I am sharing from my heart, starting with a personal story from my life–a story that might end up being one of the most impactful moments of my entire life.  It’s a story centered around the faith journey I’ve been on these past several years. I will admit that as my faith has shifted,…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, How to Fall Back in Love with Motherhood When It All Feels Hard with Tessa Brown.

272: How to Fall Back in Love with Motherhood When It All Feels Hard // Tessa Brown

By Rachel Nielson | Jan 30, 2023

For today’s episode, I pulled a beautiful interview from the archives with a friend of mine. Tessa Brown is an artist and a mother of three who strives to live each day with intention and love.   The idea for this episode came several years ago when she emailed me and shared a bit about…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, Why Your Child Melts Down After School and what to do about it with Alyssa Blask Campbell

271: Why Your Kids Melt Down After School + What to Do About it // Alyssa Blask Campbell

By Rachel Nielson | Jan 23, 2023

ANNOUNCEMENT: My Flecks of Gold Journals are not going to be for sale again until November.  Go to 3in30podcast.com/flecksofgold to see the journal and read more about how it works. Act now!  We only have a few left in stock!   *** Alyssa is the founder and CEO of Seed & Sew, an organization committed…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, on Simplifying Mom-Life with Chanelle Neilson.

270: Simplifying Mom-Life // Chanelle Neilson

By Rachel Nielson | Jan 16, 2023

Mom-life often feels anything BUT simple. Managing toddler tantrums, managing work deadlines, managing sick kids who call from school and mess up those work deadlines, managing emotional and behavioral needs…Did we miss that doctor appointment I scheduled a month ago? And how will I get there when I am also supposed to be dropping off…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, How to Create Morning Routine that will Last with Sara Dean.

269: How to Create a Morning Routine that will Last // Sara Dean

By Rachel Nielson | Jan 9, 2023

For years, I have aspired to have a better morning routine. If you’re a long-time listener of the show, you’ve heard me talk about this many times. I am naturally a bit scattered, and consistency and discipline don’t come easily to me–but I know a solid morning routine would make my whole life run more…

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Listen to Top Motherhood Podcast, 3 in 30 Podcast, More Peace, less Frustration: the Power of Family Systems with Susie Salinas.

268: More Peace, Less Frustration: The Power of Family Systems // Susie Salinas

By Rachel Nielson | Jan 2, 2023

I chose to invite my friend Susie Salinas to come on the show to talk about family systems because this is the only goal I have set myself for this new year. In 2023, I want to invest some major focus and energy into getting good systems in place for the management of my home…

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