The Motherhood Mentor

Rebecca Dollard: Somatic Mind-Body Life Coach, Enneagram Coach, Speaker, Boundaries Coach, Mindset
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Welcome to The Motherhood Mentor Podcast your go-to resource for moms seeking holistic healing and transformation. Hosted by mind-body somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach Becca Dollard.  Join us as we explore the transformative power of somatic healing, offering practical tools and strategies to help you navigate overwhelm, burnout, and stress. Through insightful conversations, empowering stories, and expert guidance, you'll discover how to cultivate resilience, reclaim balance, and thrive in every aspect of your life while still feeling permission to be a human.  Are you a woman who is building a business while raising babies who refuses to burnout? These are conversations and support for you.   We believe in the power of vulnerability, connection, and self-discovery, and our goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and valued. Whether you're juggling career, family, or personal growth, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic healing and growth all while normalizing the ups and downs, the messy and the magic, and the wild ride of this season of motherhood.  Your host: Becca is a mom of two, married for 14years to her husband Jay living in Colorado. She is a certified somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach to high functioning moms. She works with women who are navigating raising babies, building businesses, and prioritizing their own wellbeing and healing. She understands the unique challenges of navigating being fully present in motherhood while also wanting to be wildly creative and ambitious in her work. The Motherhood Mentor serves and supports moms through 1:1 coaching, in person community, and weekend retreats.  Follow on IG: @themotherhoodmentor , send me a dm and let me know you found me through the podcast!  Website:  https://www.the-motherhood-mentor.com/ Want to join the email fam for free workshops and more support: https://themotherhoodmentor.myflodesk.com/ujaud8t4x9

  1. DEC 11

    Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn- Your bodies responses to triggers and threats

    Send us a text Our bodies have unconscious patterns of responding to perceived threats that happen without conscious control, ranging from simple to complex defensive reactions. • Fight response involves mobilizing energy against a threat with aggressive outbursts, criticism, or controlling behaviors • Flight response means moving away from threats through anxiety, overthinking, or intellectual distancing • Freeze response feels like "one foot on gas, one on brake" – internal activation with external immobilization • Functional freeze allows you to operate normally while feeling detached from yourself and others • Shutdown/collapse response creates complete disconnection, numbness, and loss of muscle tone • Fawning response involves pleasing others while disconnecting from your authentic needs and feelings • These responses aren't defects but natural protections that can become problematic when chronically activated • Healing involves metabolizing these energies rather than eliminating them • The goal is creating a nervous system that's both strong and flexible in its responses • Understanding your default patterns helps you respond more authentically in relationships If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    23 min

  2. DEC 9

    The Real Reason 'Just Communicate' Doesn't Work with Michelle McDonald: Enneagram Instincts and Your Nervous System

    Send us a text What if the thing sabotaging your communication isn't your words, but your body's stuck survival strategy just trying to keep you safe? We go deep with Enneagram coach Michelle McDonald to explore the instinct layer of enneagram-self-preservation, social, and one-to-one—and how these fast, automatic behavior patterns quietly steer your relationships, leadership, and daily choices. This is personal development that bridges the gap between insight and embodied change. Instead of stopping at personality types, we map motivation to somatic awareness so you can notice dysregulation, pause, and choose a different path in the moments that matter. This is self-awareness tools meets nervous system regulation for women who've done the therapy and read the books but still get caught in the same loops. Michelle shares how the Enneagram outperforms other typologies as a practical growth tool by revealing protective patterns and giving each Enneagram type a unique, actionable route to change. We break down the Enneagram instincts and Enneagram subtypes with vivid anchors—a vigilant rabbit (self-preservation), a cohesive herd (social), and bonded macaws (one-to-one)—and translate them into real life for conscious leadership and relationship repair. You'll hear: the partner who withdraws to protect autonomy (classic pursue-withdraw pattern), the parent who pursues repair to protect belonging (attachment styles in action), the business owner who craves intensity to feel alive and effective. This is conflict resolution through the lens of fight flight freeze, not just better communication scripts. We dig into why "just communicate" fails when you're dysregulated, how to spot your instinct's telltale moves through body-based healing cues, and what a simple pause can do to bring your body, head, and heart back online. This is emotional intelligence that respects your window of tolerance—self-regulation for the over-functioning woman who leads at work and home. This conversation is rich with marriage communication examples, team dynamics insights, and grounded takeaways for breaking cycles: identify your lead instinct, strengthen the neglected one, and right-size the one that overdrives your system. You'll leave with a clear framework to navigate conflict in marriage more skillfully, set cleaner boundaries with somatic awareness, and feel more like yourself—present, resourced, and able to choose. This is inner work that translates to outer results. If you've mastered the concepts but still feel the pursue-withdraw cycle in your relationship, if you lead teams but struggle with authentic leadership in conflict, if you're craving conscious awareness that lands in your body—this is your bridge from thought patterns to embodied change. This is mindfulness practice meets Enneagram subtypes, polyvagal theory meets real-life relationships. Find Michelle: Instagram @ origins_enneagram_consulting Website If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    58 min

  3. DEC 4

    5 minute morning meditation- Orienting

    Send us a text We guide a short morning practice to center attention, reclaim energy, and choose how to move through the day with grace and clarity. Gratitude, body awareness, and gentle course-correction help build presence without pressure. • orienting to day, time, and season • sensory check-in with the world outside • body scan from head to feet • deep breathing to build calm energy • naming agency, choice, and intention • calling energy back and setting boundaries • releasing what is not ours to carry • practicing pause, forgiveness, and reset • ending with gratitude and a slower pace If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    5 min

  4. NOV 20

    Somatic Boundaries Meditation

    Send us a text We guide a grounded practice to meet your emotions, feel where you end and others begin, and build flexible boundaries that protect your energy while keeping connection possible. Through imagery, breath, and simple prompts, you restore right distance, agency, and choice. • orienting to room, time, age, and body • mapping emotion by location, speed, and color • sensing others’ presence and the space between • calling your energy back, sending others’ back • building soft yet strong barriers of light or water • adjusting distance to restore right relationship • journaling wants, needs, limits, and capacity • releasing what is not yours with respect • walking forward with clear, bright energy If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    22 min

  5. NOV 18

    Cyclical Living with Camille Leek: Restoring Ambition Through Seasons, Boundaries, and Somatics

    Send us a text Burnout doesn't have to be the cost of ambition. In this conversation with repeat guest and facilitator Camille Leek, we explore somatic healing and cyclical living for entrepreneurs balancing work and motherhood. Learn how to restore sustainable productivity by aligning with natural cycles- birth, growth, decay, and death-so your nervous system can support big work without collapse. Instead of chasing forever-summer energy, we map real rhythms for the working mom across a day, week, month, and year: ramp-up mornings that build capacity, focused midweek production, deliberate wind-down evenings, and honest wintering that composts what no longer serves. This is energy management for the creative entrepreneur who refuses to choose between presence and impact. But this isn't about following our exact business or life blueprint, it's about experiencing and then fine tuning your own,  Camille shares how she left a "successful" corporate path after years of chronic fatigue from 60–80 hour weeks and began designing boundaries that fit her biology: no Monday or Friday meetings, session windows that honor nervous system regulation, and planned hibernation months. We unpack the difference between agency and control, the social pressure to perform like a machine, and the quiet violence of self-colonization when worth equals output. You'll hear concrete examples for mothers and creatives navigating matrescence—how to swap "can't do the park" for "movie cuddle," how to plan launches around menstrual cycle awareness and true energy, and why ramp-down is the missing link between action and real rest. This is holistic health meets sustainable business strategy. If burnout has you oscillating between go and collapse, this conversation on embodiment and seasonal living offers a map to smoother waves. Expect practical routines for work-life balance, clear boundary scripts, and compassionate language that reframes PMS/PMDD, seasonal lows, and late-year contraction as natural, intelligent responses. The result is fewer, richer outputs; better sleep; more presence at home; and a grounded sense of enoughness that doesn't disappear when your calendar empties. This is self-care that actually builds capacity-boundaries that create agency in both motherhood and entrepreneurship. About Camille: Camille Leak (she/her) is a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Facilitator & Somatic Trauma Healing Educator. Via her practice, Real Talk & Brave Spaces, she provides group facilitation, workshops, and one-on-one coaching about a variety of DEI topics and trauma healing, cultivating spaces where individuals and groups can fearlessly confront the most uncomfortable elements of life's realities.   4-part course: Living & Working Seasonally: Unearthing Your Unique Rhythm & Flow to Circumvent Burnout   If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    55 min

  6. NOV 13

    5 minute morning meditation- grounding and presence

    Send us a text We guide a short morning practice to ground your body, soften your breath, and let the earth hold what’s too heavy so you can meet the day with steadiness. The session blends breathwork, body scan, orientation to time and place, and a gentle reminder to carry presence forward. • grounding through feet and seat • slow nose inhales, mouth exhales • releasing past weight and future fear • visualizing worries composting into soil • full-body scan for wholeness and calm • orienting to place, time, people, tasks • returning to breath as a home base • closing with intention to carry presence If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    7 min

  7. NOV 6

    Somatic Body Scan Meditation

    Send us a text We guide a slow body scan that builds safety, sensation, and self-trust by orienting to the room, mapping the body from head to toes, and using breath and imagery to settle the nervous system. We close by reorienting eyes open, reclaiming energy, and choosing a pace that fits what comes next. • orienting to safety through sight and context • thanking the planning mind and writing tasks down • scanning face, neck, shoulders, chest, and heart • tracking breath, rib cage movement, and core • sensing hips, legs, feet, and toes with gravity • visualizing a clear central channel and color • distinguishing softness, strength, and boundaries • mapping emotions and locating neutral ground • gentle movement to restore agency and comfort • reorienting eyes open and calling energy back Give yourself permission to pause, to slow down or to speed up, moving, breathing, thinking, feeling, sensing, calling all of your energy back to you, letting go of anything that's not yours If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

    19 min

  8. OCT 30

    The Courage to Change When Success No Longer Lights You Up

    Send us a text Success once meant strategy, systems, and performance. Now, it means truth, alignment, and peace. This episode with Kristine Munro, founder of Illume Collective, explores what happens when your definition of success evolves-and your old identity can’t keep up. We talk about the loneliness of pivot seasons, the power of honest community, and the nervous-system-level recalibration required to lead from authenticity. Kristine shares how leaving a 20-year successful career, starting over in Denver, and allowing herself to feel like a failurebecame the doorway to her most aligned work yet. This is the uncomfortable, powerful process of becoming and leadership: when growth looks less like climbing and more like returning. In this episode Kristine and I dive deep and pretty raw about : leaving a misaligned career and doing inner work • founding Illume Collective in Denver, Co for in-person, service-first connection • authenticity versus the strategic self • caring what others think without self-betrayal • polarity, belonging and relational maturity • duality, luteal season and nervous system reset • journaling and creative renewal in the hard days when failure is a part of success • detaching identity from business entities • human design, potency and aligned formats • an exclusive look into the next era of Illume and Kristines gifts • mastermind details and final enrollment window for her Community Builder Mastermind  Learn more about Kristine and her Community Builder Mastermind Here Kristine Munro is Host of The Pivot to Passion Podcast She helps women entrepreneurs go from unfulfilled to aligned. Finding clarity on your path to passion and purpose. Kristine has been on this entrepreneurial journey for over a decade, and spent most of those years feeling unfulfilled, searching for passion and purpose. She became an expert in her field, built a 7-figure business and left it all to start from scratch, pivoting her way to follow her heart and purpose. And now she is doing it all again.  If you’re ready to stop living on autopilot and start leading your life with deep presence, I’d love to work with you. Book a free interest call here: Click Here 💌 Want more? Follow me on Instagram @themotherhoodmentor for somatic tools, nervous system support, and real-talk on high-functioning burnout, ambition, healing perfectionism, and motherhood. And also pretty epic meme drops. 🎧 Did you love this episode? Be sure to follow and please take a quick moment to leave a review and send this episode to a friend. I'd love to hear from you on how this podcast impacted you, send me a DM or an email.

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Welcome to The Motherhood Mentor Podcast your go-to resource for moms seeking holistic healing and transformation. Hosted by mind-body somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach Becca Dollard.  Join us as we explore the transformative power of somatic healing, offering practical tools and strategies to help you navigate overwhelm, burnout, and stress. Through insightful conversations, empowering stories, and expert guidance, you'll discover how to cultivate resilience, reclaim balance, and thrive in every aspect of your life while still feeling permission to be a human.  Are you a woman who is building a business while raising babies who refuses to burnout? These are conversations and support for you.   We believe in the power of vulnerability, connection, and self-discovery, and our goal is to create a space where you feel seen, heard, and valued. Whether you're juggling career, family, or personal growth, this podcast is your sanctuary for holistic healing and growth all while normalizing the ups and downs, the messy and the magic, and the wild ride of this season of motherhood.  Your host: Becca is a mom of two, married for 14years to her husband Jay living in Colorado. She is a certified somatic healing practitioner and holistic life coach to high functioning moms. She works with women who are navigating raising babies, building businesses, and prioritizing their own wellbeing and healing. She understands the unique challenges of navigating being fully present in motherhood while also wanting to be wildly creative and ambitious in her work. The Motherhood Mentor serves and supports moms through 1:1 coaching, in person community, and weekend retreats.  Follow on IG: @themotherhoodmentor , send me a dm and let me know you found me through the podcast!  Website:  https://www.the-motherhood-mentor.com/ Want to join the email fam for free workshops and more support: https://themotherhoodmentor.myflodesk.com/ujaud8t4x9

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  • Creator
    Rebecca Dollard: Somatic Mind-Body Life Coach, Enneagram Coach, Speaker, Boundaries Coach, Mindset
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    77
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 The Motherhood Mentor
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    The Motherhood Mentor