When you become a mom, your life changes dramatically. It can be a very lonely transition and making friends can be hard. Here is why having friends that are moms is so very important in your motherhood journey… Additional Episode Notes: I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! I hope this episode helps put you back at the top…

I said what I said! But hear me out… Asking for help puts your parenting partner in the position of being your assistant in raising your kids. But a parenting partner shouldn’t leave you to carry all the mental load of parenting. Here is what you should ask for instead. Additional Episode Notes: I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare…

Taking a shower is selfcare! Selfcare is the act of caring for yourself and that can exist on a spectrum that can range from basic tasks like showering or eating to girl’s trips and spa days and more. Here is why that is so important for you to understand on your selfcare journey…. Additional Episode Notes: I am so grateful to have you as a listene…

Social Media will have you believing that you need to wake up at 5am, workout, meditate, journal, walk 3 miles a day, eat kale salads and smoothies, have a hobby, spend quality time with everyone in your life and drink a gallon of water a day…(Insert maniacal, exhausted laugh). So often we think selfcare is an all or nothing practice and so many of…

Does your never ending TODO list seem to forever taunt you? Have you ever taken the time to edit your todo list? That’s right, take some time to see what you can take off of your todo list! Yes, that’s right! You don’t have to do it all and here is why and how you can edit your todo list and make time put your selfcare back at the top of you todo l…

For a mom, selfcare can sometimes seem like an overwhelming and daunting task to add to the already too long to-do lists. And there can be a million reasons to not do all the things that we are told we “should be” doing… There isn’t enough time in the day… It cost too much… You don’t have the capacity to do all the things… The list goes on and on. …

When was the last time you checked in with yourself… Your mental self, emotional self, physical self, spiritual self? As a mom, you often get caught up in the chaos of motherhood and tuck away how you feel to take care of all the people you need to care for. But you need to be cared for too and selfcare starts with checking in with yourself to see …

Burnout is something that so many moms face and it is pretty much an inevitable part of motherhood. And yet we tend to beat ourselves up when we hit the point of burnout. But here is what you should do instead to help practice more self-care. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! I hope this episode helps put you back at th…

Stop Treating Selfcare As A Luxury. Selfcare is a necessity. And us mommas can not afford to treat Selfcare as a luxury. Here is why... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelmed and like there is no room on the to-do lis…

One of the most important lessons this pandemic year has taught us is that we need to learn to shift. Life happens and we can’t control it all the time so we have to be able to shift. This is how that applies to your Selfcare practice... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles t…

Like I said...Selfcare is hard but we don’t have to be so hard on ourselves when our Selfcare practice doesn’t go the way we want it to. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelmed and like there is no room on the to-do li…

Selfcare is about taking care of your over wellbeing… Your mental, physical, emotional, social and spiritual health. And sometimes it is HARD. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelmed and like there is no room on the to…

Welcome to Season 2 of MomCare Monday! Selfcare is a practice that takes daily work. Time for you to care for yourself will not magically appear in your day. You have to be intentional about practicing the daily habit of selfcare. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that com…

This episode is a throwback but really applies to right now. We all have way too much on our plates right now. And with all that is going on, our mental and emotional health are in fragile states. So... Don’t feel guilty for needing to take a time out. Take a time out! I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you strugglin…

The biggest lesson I have learned this year is to honor me and the things I want to do for myself. I have released the mom guilt around it and become a happier mom because of it. And I am challenging other moms to honor the fact that you are more than just mom. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with b…

So many of us are silently punishing ourselves for not accomplishing the things we feel we should and all that does is perpetuate our feelings of inadequacy. Here is what you should do instead... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you fe…

Think about the ways you treat someone you are dating. Do you treat yourself the same way? I say you should practice selfcare as if you are dating yourself and here is how... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelmed and…

There has always been a lot of talk about what women should or shouldn’t and can or can’t do with our bodies. But what we can and should do is treat our bodies with love and respect. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhe…

So many of us speak to ourselves with the most cruel words and we become our own worst enemy. But words and thoughts matter so it is important that we speak to ourselves kindly. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelmed …

So many mommas including myself complain they can’t find the time for selfcare. But the truth is you have to make the time in our busy lives for selfcare or it just isn’t going to happen. Here is how to make time for your selfcare... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that …

It’s a new year and many of us have set new goals and resolutions for ourselves. We get really excited and start implementing everything right away only to burn out by February or March. That’s definitely not what you want. Here is how to ensure you accomplish your goals and resolutions within the year... I am so grateful to have you as a listener …

2020 was a crazy year. So whether you thrived or just survived celebrate it as an accomplishment and don’t punish yourself for what you didn’t get done. Everybody gets a reprieve. You can press reset and carry your goals into the new year! I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles…

Raise your hand if you have deprived yourself of rest because you didn’t feel like you had done enough to deserve it? 🙋🏽‍♀️ Rest is a necessity and depriving yourself of it just creates a cycle of self sabotage and here is why... Are you guilty of this? I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing…

Every mom needs to take real time off to rest and reset her mind, body and spirit. A day, a weekend or more on a regular basis. Here is why it is so important and how every mom can manage to take real time off. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherh…

As we enter the home stretch of what has been an extremely challenging year for all of us...Please be gentle with yourself. This last month may feel a bit daunting and your body, mind and soul want to shut down but try being gentle with yourself in these 4 ways and see if that helps you get through the rest of this year. I am so grateful to have yo…

This year we have all had enough stress to last us a good 10 years. So the last thing we need is stressful holidays. Here are a few ways you can reduce the stress holiday season... I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are you feeling overwhelm…

It is hard for moms to ask for what we want or need from our family and loved ones. But we have to communicate. The bottom line is you can’t expect to get what you want or need if you don’t ask for it. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles that come along with motherhood? Are …

Social media has us out here comparing ourselves to picture perfect snippets of other people’s lives and making us believe we are failing at life. It’s just not true. You should never compare yourself to the highlight reels you see and here is why. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all …

When we practice selfcare, we have to ensure that we are caring for our “whole” self. That includes our emotional health, mental health, physical health, social health and spiritual health . I am constantly checking in to ensure I am addressing all areas because we tend to focus on the ones we are good at and avoid the areas we aren’t so good at. B…

When was the last time you actively practiced joy? We are spending our days constantly giving others. And we forget to take the time to do the things that bring us joy and fill our tanks. You may be saying “Who has time for that right now?!?!” But I say it’s a necessity and here is how you can make the time to incorporate joy into your day. I am so…

With everything that has come with 2020, I think we have all reached the point of being stretched to thin. We are dealing with a worldwide pandemic, schooling from home, working from home, parenting 24/7, and isolated from our friends and family. We have entirely too much on our plates and limited capacity. But I would like to tell you...It’s ok to…

In this day and age this whole “wellness” industry seems to be all about what makes you feel good. But the truth is taking care of ourselves isn’t always a “feel good” experience. Sometimes selfcare is doing the thing that makes us uncomfortable. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all th…

For many of us mommas, selfcare is something we try to fit in whenever the opportunity happens to present itself which is rare. But in order to build a consistent, ongoing selfcare routine we have to practice and build our selfcare muscle. I am so grateful to have you as a listener of MomCare Mondays! Are you struggling with balancing all the roles…

Welcome to MomCare Monday with me, your Host Elisha Beach. To kick this podcast off I am sharing my personal selfcare journey and how I went from a mom meltdown in a busy passport office to prioritizing my selfcare. Now selfcare is a daily part of my life and I want to share with you my passion for selfcare for moms on MomCare Monday. I am so grate…

Host Elisha Beach, sits down with award winning bloggers Carly Anderson Of Lip Gloss and Crayons and Summer Len Davis of Dirty Floor Diaries. We discuss everything from how they viewed and understood racism growing up, what they learned from their families and their own personal experiences when confronted with seeing racism happen. We also discuss…

Host Elisha Beach sits down with her friends and fellow Mocha Moms Actress and Comedian Angel Moore, Licensed Psychotherapist Rhonda Richards Smith and Marriage and Family Therapist Stephanie Hazzard. They openly and honestly discuss their experiences of motherhood as black women raising black children. These 4 mothers share their reactions to the …

2020 has been one of hell of a year to say the least. And with all that has come along with this year, so much of it has landed on moms’ plates. And frankly, moms are drowning trying to manage an unreasonable amount of day-to-day expectations. Let’s talk about why and the support that mommas need right now. We are so grateful to have you as a liste…

It is very easy to lose yourself to motherhood and it is often very hard to maintain your individuality as you journey through motherhood. So we have decided to rebrand as More Than Just Mom to support moms in this journey through motherhood. And listen for a few things you can do to feel like more than just mom. We are so grateful to have you as a…

Tammy Talbot is a single mom of 1 boy. She is a hair stylist and the owner of Crowning Glory Hair Studio and who lived a very full and exciting life before having her child at 45. She honestly shares her experiences of transitioning into motherhood and the ways she has evolved as a woman and a mother. We are so grateful to have you as a listener of…

Codie Elaine Oliver is a married mom of a 2 year old with twin boys on the way. She and her husband Tommy are the creators of the docuseries Black Love on Own TV. They also launched Blacklove.com sharing content about all things love and marriage from Tantric Perspective to All Things Money to Moms With Coffee. Codie shares the reality of having ba…

Lynn Johnson and Allison Kenny are married moms of 1 adopted daughter. They are the founders of the amazing organization Spotlight Girls, a multi-media platform and summer camp that educates, inspires, and activates girls and women to take center stage. They openly share how they manage working together and parenting together while keeping their ma…

Summer Bellessa is a married mom of 3 kids. She is a creative that has done everything from modeling and acting to starting her own magazine. You can find her incorporating her love for all things creative and motherhood on her website and youtube channel Girls With Glasses which is just one of the many projects she has her hands in. And in her att…

Brandi Riley is a married mom of 2 kids. She began her journey in motherhood as a single mom to her daughter and she shares her journey on her blog mamaknowsitall.com. She talks about releasing the shame around being a single mom and finding her voice as a woman, mother and entrepreneur. She is also the founder of Courage To Earn where she helps wo…

Alaine McClenahan is a mother of two boys who is currently in the process of a divorce. She is a life coach and one bad ass, inspiring momma. She has a rock band and rock hard abs and is a all about self-love, self-acceptance and embracing imperfections. You can find her doling out her infectious zest for life on her youtube channel Dirty, Ugly Fit…

Hilary Thomas is a mother of 1 with her life partner. She is a classroom teacher and founder and Artistic Director of her company Lineage Dance. She started the company in 1999 to help raise money for nonprofit organizations and it has since raised over $100,000 and opened the Lineage Performing Arts Center to make dance accessible to all ages and …

Claudine Cooper is a wife and busy mom of 3 kids. She is a passionate fitness trainer and a master at giving no nonsense advice with just the right amount of love. She shares her struggles as a mom with asking for help and relinquishing control. You can follow her on Instagram @fitwit3 or Twitter @fitwit3 for some fitness tips and no nonsense advic…

Autumn Hicock is a married mom of 2 kids. She and her wife adopted biological siblings through fostering. Autumn shares openly about their choice to foster to adopt and everything that comes along with that choice…her fears, interacting with the court system, parenting challenges and the joys of parenting she gets to share with her wife. We are so …

Angel Laketa Moore is a married mom of 3 kids which includes a set of twins. She is a talented actress and hilarious comedian and she candidly shares about motherhood on her Youtube Channel That Chick Angel TV. Her hilarious vlogs Mommy Confessions, Monday Motivation and Petty Prayers are all must sees. Angel shares how balance doesn’t always look …

Sophia Dickens is an entrepreneur and married mom of 4 kids. She is Founder and Chief Creative Officer of EQtainment, an educational company that focuses on children’s social and emotional learning. She has also managed to homeschool her children. Sophia shares the truth about how she “balances” it all and how motherhood never fails to keep her hum…

This is a replay of Season 1 Episode 1 Jeena Quansah is a part-time working, married mother of 2 and my dearest mom friend. Her son was born hard of hearing and received a cochlear ear implant at 1 year old. Jeena shares how motherhood and advocating for her son has taught her a lot about advocating for herself, what selfcare really looks like and …