Oversharing

As Jordana shares stories of her dog Ron’s jealousy of the new babies, Dr. Naomi remembers her pet Ralphie and wonders if he felt ignored when her children arrived many years ago. A fellow “type-b mother” sheds her shame and confesses her maternal instincts are often second nature to her personal survival skills, and she asks if it spells trouble for her kids. On the topic of dogs again, a woman is irked that her co-workers' fear of four legged creatures is banning the office mascot from bringing joy to her cubicle every Friday and she is hell bent on making a case for the pooch. After her son received no party invitations from his classmates at daycare, a tear-filled mother spills her feelings in a voicemail and the hosts unpack the source of these painful emotions. Feeling the stress of keeping a newborn safe, a new mom is triggered after finding her husband and baby asleep in an unsafe position and she is worried he doesn't take safety as seriously. Finally an accidental text message spoils a (somewhat) surprise engagement and a Betch is left lamenting her dream proposal scenario.
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Jordana and Dr. Naomi are back to regularly scheduled recordings after Jordana welcomed her baby girls and the two hosts are already plotting their next IRL hangout with the entire gang. An overstimulated mom overshares her guilt after forgetting a friend's birthday and fears her apology didn’t smooth things over as she had hoped. An expecting Betch is blindsided when her bestie stakes claim to a wildly common baby name, forcing her to choose between her friendship or her child’s namesake. A single mom dealing with an ex-husband who seems to exist purely to test her blood pressure asks for an intention she can repeat when he inevitably pushes every button she has. A woman who runs a 5K for pediatric cancer is side-eyeing a close friend who has ghosted her donation requests for multiple years. Finally, a childfree Betch is triggered that her dream wedding is being derailed by other people’s children and wonders if she’ll ever get over it.
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Jordana shares how being pregnant made her respect her body more and she and Dr. Naomi chat about how their mindset around exercise has shifted to health over vanity. With a friend’s wedding turning into a week-long Olympic event of mandatory joy, one Betch wonders if skipping a few side quests officially earns her the title of Worst Friend Alive. Now that baby number two is on the way, a listener’s guest room turned bedroom has her wondering how to tell her in-laws and parents to find a hotel next time they’re in town. Dr. Naomi shares wisdom straight from group therapy after a woman who’s in a committed relationship with her phone asks for an intention to stop doom-scrolling herself into oblivion. One Betch is rattled when her ex slides into her texts with a romantic nostalgia bomb… while he’s literally waiting for the birth of his allegedly “unwanted” child. Even though a mom-to-be explicitly told her parents to go enjoy their cruise, she’s suddenly spiraling now that they actually… listened. Is it abandonment, or just the consequences of her own chill-girl energy?
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As Jordana prepares for the birth of her second child, she and Dr. Naomi unpack how social media is engineered to spike anxiety, especially as Jordana gears up for labor. One listener writes in about her chronically grumpy father-in-law who’s suddenly sunshine and light after starting Ozempic, and she’s left wondering what to do with her lingering resentment now that he’s a “new person.”  Another Betch has been excluded from a splashy upcoming family vacation and can’t decide what stings more: not being invited or the fact that the trip sounds like her personal nightmare. After a stretch of sleepless nights and draining workdays, one woman asks how to stop beating herself up when she just can’t seem to lull herself to sleep. A Valentine’s Day dinner is interrupted by her brother-in-law’s persistent phone calls, leaving another listener questioning whether her irritation is justified. And finally, a new mom finds herself cast as the default babysitter for every baby at a family gathering—and wants validation that her unpaid labor isn’t just invisible, it’s expected.
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As time moves quickly by and her children grow up, Dr. Naomi makes changes to the family room at home that reflect everyone's current needs, including her own. A daughter is stressed out by her mother's bad driving but doesn't know how to tell her aging parent it might be time to ditch the car and start calling ubers. Caught in a pickle, a listener asks if there is a polite way to ditch her friends at a comedy show after being given better seats to the same event. One Betch’s germ phobia is starting to take over all her thoughts and she asks Dr. Naomi for an intention to quell the constant anxiety. After her father dropped the ball on a contract, a woman is triggered that he didn't think to ask for help even though she is in fact a contract lawyer here. A bride is left upset after a childhood friend canceled her wedding RSVP and the hosts debate the circumstances of the seemingly last minute bail.
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