The Stretch.Tea.Talk Podcast

Stacey Black

The STT Podcast includes monthly interviews with everyday superstar mothers, no celebrity status is needed. Sharing real, raw, and unfiltered stories from all kinds of mamas around the world. All series have three episodes each. staceyblack.substack.com

  1. 14. Menopause Mama Series: Sharon

    06/21/2023

    14. Menopause Mama Series: Sharon

    Podcast no. 14, 21.06.2023 Happy Summer Solstice listeners! This new series of Menopause Mamas includes our first guest, Sharon from Somerset, UK. Sharon has had such an incredible life journey, it would’ve been a joy to share all her wonderful stories we recorded together but alas, we tried hard to focus on the menopausal times! Sharon started her menopause journey quite late into her 50s and feels that being on the Mirena IUD since her 40s may have contributed to her ‘getting off lightly’. We discuss her symptoms of irrationality and getting annoyed with her husband (whom she still loves dearly!) and also, the possibility that being in flight mode for so long after caring for her two disabled children contributed to the short experience of menopausal moods. You can hear how full of fond memories Sharon is and how she dotes on the special motherly moments her two children blessed her with. Sharon’s children passed at age 22 and 17 and perhaps she found her menopause journey easy because she’d already been equipped with so much strength from within, knowing one day she would lose both of them. It was an absolute pleasure listening to her, and thankful for the reminders we, as mothers, as females, as deeply hormonal beings, often need to hear: Do what you can little by little, ask for help without shame, find real friends and look after YOU. Sharon says she dealt with her menopause by writing therapeutically, changing her dietary needs, enjoying hydrotherapy, getting grounded, and meditating as much as possible. Sounds holistically healthy to me! Credit: Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Get full access to The Stretch.Tea.Talk Motherhood at staceyblack.substack.com/subscribe

    34 min
  2. 12. Divorced Mama Series: Neé

    04/18/2023

    12. Divorced Mama Series: Neé

    Podcast no. 12, 17.04.2023 Today’s podcast guest, Neé from Surrey in the UK, sure has overcome some challenges since deciding divorce was the best way forward for her in 2014. Neé had to slowly move back via two countries with her only son, then aged 6, in order to get settled again in the UK in 2015. She found herself and her son camping in an empty house with the bare minimum but found the courage to build their new lives up, from that moment on. Neé gives super advice for when things get heavy - “you can either sink or swim!” Love it! She had the psychological support of her loving father and agrees that having any support is invaluable through such a tough time. Her father kept her calm, on the right path and focused on the outcome. Physically, her body reacted during the divorce with signs and symptoms of severe anxiety and IBS and reiterates that no mama should be embarrassed about asking for help while struggling physically, mentally or emotionally. Neé further invested in her wellbeing with exercising and highly recommends kickboxing for any mother with pent up frustrations! After her divorce, Neé found a job with a pharmacy and thankfully they were flexible enough around her being a single mother with a young one. She was also lucky enough to have her school mom friends support her a lot at the time. She briefly discusses the co-parenting situation between her son and her ex husband and also touches on the complications that may arise from having a court order. Neé now enjoys her single mama freedom and it was an absolute pleasure talking to her so positively and sharing her very inspiring story of how she made the painful decision, followed through and overcame the thing nobody ever expects from being married; divorce. Credit: Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Get full access to The Stretch.Tea.Talk Motherhood at staceyblack.substack.com/subscribe

    25 min

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The STT Podcast includes monthly interviews with everyday superstar mothers, no celebrity status is needed. Sharing real, raw, and unfiltered stories from all kinds of mamas around the world. All series have three episodes each. staceyblack.substack.com