You're not disorganized — you're carrying the mental load. 🧠 Research shows working moms juggle about 14 open mental tabs at any moment. In this episode, we name the mental gymnastics 🤸‍♀️, then practice the physiological sigh together: a 10-second, Stanford-backed breathwork tool proven to calm your nervous system faster than meditation. 🫁 Plus, set one small weekly intention that actually sticks. ✨ Your anchor phrase: exhale before you respond. 🤍

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Most of us got two options for a hard feeling: swallow it or drown in it. In this episode I hand you the third — a two-minute practice you can do in a parked car: name it, locate it, move it. We cover the UCLA research on why naming an emotion literally calms the brain's alarm center ("name it to tame it"), why swallowed feelings wait for 2 a.m., and a gentle guided tapping round to move the feeling through instead of carrying it. Waves, not floods.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

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⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

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Feeling behind this week? Check whose ruler you’re holding. In this minisode I share the appointment where a doctor I’ve known for years responded to my new chapter with “we’ll see how long this lasts” — and how the old me would have carried that sentence home. Plus the mayflies that covered my car one night and what they taught me about underwater seasons: growing unseen isn’t behind, it’s before. Hand back the ruler.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

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⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

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You handle everything — and feel almost none of it. In this episode we name the strange grief of competence: being at the game but on the phone, on the vacation but running it, everywhere and nowhere at once. I share the rink moment that caught me, why your nervous system won’t let you be present in a moment it believes needs managing, and the reframe that changes everything: presence isn’t a skill to master, it’s what’s left when you put the scanning down. One five-minute practice to start this week, and one question to carry.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

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⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

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It’s July — camps, summer leagues, kids home more, being the entertainment, vacation math, and the conversations that aren’t easy. An uninterrupted twenty minutes isn’t where you are yet, so here’s ninety seconds instead. The exact reset I use in the camp pickup line and the parking lot: three signals — the ground, the breath, the touch — that flip your body’s calm switch when the day is full. I share the science of why a long exhale settles your nervous system when thinking can’t, the parking-lot moment that started this practice for me, and the habit-stacking idea from James Clear’s Atomic Habits that makes it stick — this summer, and in every season after: the school line in September, the office threshold, the front door. Simple, doable, stackable — that’s how you move the needle.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

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⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam

Picture her — you, before all of it. Before the titles, the schedules, and becoming the person everyone leans on. In this episode we name the grief nobody warns you about: losing yourself one reasonable sacrifice at a time. I share the research word for it (matrescence — the identity earthquake of motherhood that doesn't just happen once), why grieving your old self isn't ingratitude, and my own experience mothering two boys in two completely different seasons at the same time. Coming home isn't reinvention — it's return, in a hundred tiny reunions. One question to carry with you. Email me at hello@connectwithmaryam.com — I read every one. New episodes every Monday and Thursday, with guest expert conversations coming soon.

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam

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Imperfectly Courageous — a personal growth podcast for accomplished women who are quietly burned out and homesick for themselves. With transformational coach Maryam, explore self-worth, mindset, subconscious and somatic healing, identity, and the courage to come home to who you really are.

Let's stay connected 🤍

📩 Email hello@connectwithmaryam.com to join my email list and be first to know what's coming.

📱 Instagram @connectwithmaryam — send me a DM, I read every one myself.

⭐ If this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review. It's the simplest way to help another woman who's homesick for herself find her way here.

Be imperfectly courageous.
— Maryam