September 1st | 12:00-12:45 MT | Live Lunch Workshop | FREE
Why Motherhood Feels So Hard
The missing piece no one taught us about why motherhood feels so hard, even for incredibly capable women, and what finally begins to make it easier.
What You'll Learn
In this live 45-minute workshop, you’ll discover why the strengths that help you succeed everywhere else can leave you wondering why motherhood feels so much harder than you expected—and why that isn’t a personal failing.
Together, we’ll uncover why your nervous system keeps pulling you toward fixing, controlling, or overthinking during difficult moments, introduce the two kinds of intelligence every mother needs, and reveal what decades of attachment research tell us children actually need most from us.
You’ll leave with a completely different way of understanding the moments that feel hardest—and a simple way to begin responding differently.
Hint: It isn’t perfection.
What You'll Walk Away With
A completely new way to understand why motherhood feels so hard.
❋ The ShiftA practical framework for knowing when a moment needs solving or simply needs your presence.
❋ The Framework A practical tool to help your nervous system stay present when it wants to fix, control, or overthink.
❋ The PracticeOne simple practice you can begin using immediately to bring more calm, presence, and intention into everyday moments with your child.
❋ The Next Step
WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FOR
This workshop is for mothers who are used to solving problems, running the show, and holding everything together. Those strengths have served you well in so many areas of your life. But if you’ve ever wondered why they don’t seem to help you become the mother you want to be, this workshop is for you.
Hi, I’m Kate.
Mother of two, LCSW, and maternal mental health expert who has spent over 20 years supporting women through one of life’s biggest transformations: becoming a mother.
I help ambitious mothers understand why motherhood feels so hard, strengthen their relationship with themselves and their children, and discover they don’t have to choose between achievement and connection.
As the founder of the Parent and Family Wellness Center in Colorado and creator of the Calm Connection Accelerator™, I have supported over 6,000 women through the most important years of early motherhood.
I’ve learned that you don’t have to choose between achievement and connection. You simply need to know what motherhood is asking of you. When you do, everything begins to feel different.
LUNCH WORKSHOP
SEPTEMBER 1ST | 12-12:45 pm MT | free
Come as you are. Bring your questions, your coffee or lunch, and wherever you're really at right now. Can't make this one? Join us for the next workshop. The first Tuesday of each month.
You Don’t Have to Earn Joy: The Lie High-Achieving Mothers Have Been Taught
There is a quiet rule many high-achieving mothers live by.
I’ll enjoy myself after…
After the dishes are done. After I answer those emails. After I fold the laundry. After I catch up at work. After bedtime. After this season.
Without realizing it, we begin treating joy like a reward. Something we earn after we’ve been productive enough, responsible enough, or selfless enough.
Imagine leaving your child at daycare or with a babysitter differently.
Your child cries. Instead of wondering if you’re doing something wrong, instead of trying to stop the tears… you understand what the moment is asking of you. You stay steady. You trust your child. You trust yourself. You walk away knowing that connection isn’t built by preventing hard moments, but by how you move through them.