Episode 93: Managing Difficult Relationships: Proactive Strategies for Working Moms
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about dysfunctional relationships with people who have narcissistic or borderline tendencies and how they must be managed with strategies and boundaries. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can protect your peace by utilizing the tools she explores in this week’s episode. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 92: Embrace the Journey: Lessons for Busy Moms from a Working Physician
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the importance of taking the time to appreciate the day-to-day, regular, mundane moments in your life in order to truly cultivate more presence and peace. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how soaking in your surroundings can help you keep yourself grounded and be more content with life. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 91: Unpacking the 'Not Good Enough’ Syndrome: A guide for Ambitious Woman
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about the concept of not feeling good enough, which is an issue that many women struggle with. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can combat this type of mindset in order to create a more peaceful and joyful life. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 90: The Ultimate Guide to Weight Loss: Exercise Tips That Work
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the vital topic of exercise and the vast benefits it can bring to your life. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can implement strategies for working out in a way that is manageable and realistic. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how you can cultivate a way of life that is sustainable and how to lose or maintain your weight without feeling restricted. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about three tips to help you navigate healthy eating habits that are realistic and obtainable. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 88: How to Make Friends as a Working Mom
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses how powerful human connection is and debunks the myth that all relationships must last forever. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can do what is right for you without feeling guilt or shame in order to cultivate more joy and peace. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 87: The Top 10 Ways to Let Go and Find Peace
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about the importance of letting go and how it can serve to greatly improve your quality of life. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you, as a professional mom in a demanding career, can learn to truly let go of things such as perfectionism and guilt in order to create peace for yourself. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 86: Creating Balance Between the Beauty and Challenges of Working Motherhood
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the very important topic of one’s relationship to motherhood and how to face the dichotomy between being a mother and balancing an identity outside of motherhood. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how self-care is not always the answer to burnout and exhaustion for working moms, despite common belief. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 85: Learn Boundaries for Work-Life Balance
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about the important topic of boundaries and how to properly establish them in order to get the most out of their benefits. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can get more work-life balance through setting boundaries for yourself. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 84: Unlocking Happiness: Mastering Mindfulness for a Fulfilling Life
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the importance of cultivating presence and joy in the small and mundane moments happening in ordinary life. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about strategies to realize that life is about the here and now. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 83: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Overachievement: Embracing Stillness in Motherhood
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about finding peace and enjoyment through taking time to be intentionally quiet and still. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about practical strategies on how to cultivate stillness, as well as how it can greatly benefit you and contribute to better well-being. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 82: Navigating Tough Days: Strategies for Over-Driven Career Moms
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses strategies on how to effectively deal with a bad mood and how to cope with adverse situations. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can overcome the difficult days in order to create peace of mind. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 81: Mastering Balance: Mindful Living for Career-Driven Moms
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how to find peace of mind, balance, and presence through the use of mindfulness practices. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can implement these streamlined mindfulness practices in order to gain both physical and psychological benefits that will greatly improve your quality of life. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses how professional women can draw inspiration from childhood behaviors to combat burnout and enhance life satisfaction. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can utilize childlike wonder to increase your happiness and reduce exhaustion. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 79: Finding Balance Beyond Therapy with the Happy Mom Method
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how coaching can benefit you in finding work-life balance in a different way than therapy can. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how coaching can give you a way to create a concrete plan to get you out of burnout and exhaustion faster than therapy can. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 78: Self-Care is the Worst Way to End Burnout and Exhaustion
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses how self-care is not the end all be all when it comes to treating exhaustion and burnout. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about why self-care isn’t actually all it’s made out to be and some techniques on how you can truly relieve exhaustion. Tune in for more on this topic
Episode 77: 2023 Recap & Power Goals for 2024
In this episode, Dr. Prianca Naik talks about ending the year off strong by reflecting on the prior year and planning for the year ahead. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can head into the new year with clear priorities and understand what you want to bring into 2024. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 76: People-Pleasing Trap: Why Woman Are Prone and How to Break Free for Work-Life Joy
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she shares her personal narrative, navigating the transformative impact of self-improvement on motherhood, the interconnectedness of personal development and global influence, and practical insights for letting go of external opinions to find inner peace.
Episode 75: Inner Peace Unleashed: Letting Go of Others’ Opinions
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she shares her personal narrative, navigating the transformative impact of self-improvement on motherhood, the interconnectedness of personal development and global influence, and practical insights for letting go of external opinions to find inner peace.
Episode 74: The Power of Human Connection in Ending Burnout
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how powerful human connection is when it comes to getting rid of burnout. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can improve several aspects of your life through connecting with those around you. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 73: Top 10 Burnout Mistakes And Solutions; How to Prevent Exhaustion and Stress
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the top ten mistakes moms with demanding jobs make when it comes to burnout, exhaustion, and stress. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about solutions to these top ten mistakes so you can implement them in your own life. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 72: Stop Feeling Burned Out By Making Your Dreams A Reality
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how a common misconception among people who are dealing with burnout is that they have no control over their lives. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how you can take control of your life and make the impossible possible. Tune in for more on this topic.
Episode 71: Coping With Life’s Challenges By Being Human
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses how important it is to be kind to oneself as well as the conflict between cultural expectations and human nature. Dr. Prianca invites you to learn about how to treat yourself with compassion as you would with your children. Tune in for more on this important topic.
Episode 70: Life Coaching vs Therapy in Ending Burnout for Good
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about the distinction between life coaching and therapy and how each approach can benefit your life. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about which approach best fits your needs and evidence of the support life coaching can bring.
Episode 69: Find Balance as a Mom with a Demanding Career with Dr. Bonnie Koo
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she and her special guest Dr. Bonnie Koo discuss various topics ranging from how important it is to take care of your mental health to how doing so creates a positive model of behavior for your kids. Dr. Naik and Dr. Koo invite you to learn about investing time into yourself in order to build a life you don’t need a vacation from.
Episode 68: The Fastest Way To Make Hard Decision
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how we make hard decisions and the most efficient strategies to deal with them. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can identify and face the fears that are holding you back in order to create the life you want for yourself.
Episode 67: How Work-Life Balance Can Be Achieved By Finding Your Voice
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the very prevalent issue of how to find your voice. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can change what your life looks like by standing up and advocating for yourself.
Episode 66: How To Be Happy As A Working Mom
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about cultivating inner peace and living a more meaningful life. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about living life as if you were given a second chance and finding happiness in the ordinary things.
Episode 65: Mastering Time Management For Career-Driven Moms
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses the important issue of time management for high-power working moms. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can get hours back each week and make the most of the time that you have.
Episode 64: 5 Steps To Ease Anxiety
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about several ways in which you can lessen your level of stress and anxiety. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can break anxiety in order to create inner peace for yourself.
Episode #63: 3 Steps To Create Joy and End Exhaustion
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses a few methods that can help you create more joy and end exhaustion in your life. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about what you can do to take life less seriously in order to have more energy to focus on what makes you happy.
Episode #62: How To Not Mess Up Your Kids By Building A Legacy
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about what you can do to foster a healthy, supportive environment for your children. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can help your kids be their best selves by showing up for them as the most joyful version of yourself.
Episode #61: How to Get Peace Without Meditating
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses how she came to create her own fun, modern mindfulness practices that don’t involve meditating. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how you can easily implement these processes into your own life and create peace for yourself.
Episode #60: How to Stop Getting Stressed About Everything
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she talks about how you can harness the power of changing your mindset in order to be less stressed. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about what you can do to decrease your stress levels all through the power of your own mind.
Episode #59: How to Stop Yelling at Your Kids
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she discusses mindfulness tools and methods to help keep yourself from yelling and staying grounded. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about what you can do to reduce irritability and stop yourself from yelling, even when you really feel like it.
Episode #58: How to Feel Less Tired Part 2
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In the second episode of this two-part series, she talks about some simple things you can do to feel less tired. Dr. Naik invites you to gain a better understanding of what you can do to mitigate exhaustion and gain your energy back.
Episode #57: How to Feel Less Tired Part 1
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In the first episode of this two-part series, she discusses several methods that can help you feel less exhausted and burnt out. Dr. Naik invites you to understand more about the ways in which you can feel less fatigued through simple habits you can implement today.
Episode #56: Tips For Reducing Stress and Burnout For Working Moms
Join Dr. Prianca Naik on the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this episode, she provides tips to help you reduce stress and burnout that can pave the way for living the life you deserve. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how to mitigate harmful stress and make it less powerful in order to truly be present and enjoy your life.
Episode #55: How to Have Good Work-Life Balance
Join Dr. Prianca as she uncovers the secrets to creating a balanced and fulfilling life for high-achieving moms. With a focus on overcoming exhaustion and burnout, Dr. Prianca offers strategies to thrive in both personal and professional spheres. Discover the truth about work-life balance and how aligning your career with your life's purpose can bring true joy and fulfillment. Gain insights into prioritizing values, leaving a meaningful legacy, and finding success on your own terms.
Episode #54: Self-love to End Exhaustion
For this episode, Dr. Naik focuses on the concept of self-love. Self-love is incredibly important for achieving clarity and finding inner peace, which can help mitigate exhaustion and burnout. Dr. Naik invites you to learn about how practicing self-love can change your life for the better. Tune in and embrace your own journey of empowerment.
Episode #53: Self-Empowerment to Overcome Burnout
For this episode, Dr. Naik shares her journey of growth and resilience. She would like to inspire women to embrace aging, appreciate their accomplishments, and overcome societal expectations. Discover the power of self-compassion and learn how to let go of a victim mentality to empower yourself. Dr. Naik invites you to book a call with her coaching service to find peace, joy and renewed energy in your life. Tune in and embrace your own journey of empowerment.
Episode #52: Accept Help to End Burnout
In this episode, Dr. Naik talks about how accepting assistance, outsourcing tasks, and building a supportive village can lead to transformation and overcome burnout in 90 days or less. Tune in for insights, real-life examples, and actionable steps toward a more fulfilling and balanced life.
Episode #51: Create your Dreams for Peace and Joy
In this episode, Dr. Naik dives into real talk and practical strategies to help you overcome exhaustion, find inner peace, and rediscover your carefree self. You will also be learning the modern mindfulness for working Moms and finding inner peace in a busy world.
Episode #50: End Exhaustion By Keeping it Simple
In this episode, Dr. Naik talks about the importance of keeping it simple and how simplifying things can lead to a more calm, peaceful state of mind. Dr. Naik encourages listeners to stop obsessing over small things that don't matter in the long run, as they drain our energy and contribute to burnout. Instead, we should focus our energy on things that align with our priorities and truly matter to us. Tune in to this episode for more tips on keeping it simple and finding peace of mind.
Episode #49: How To Cope with Hard Times (Part 3)
In this final episode of the three-part series, Dr. Prianca explores the power of mindfulness and Buddhist principles in managing stress and burnout. With relatable examples and modern perspectives, she explains how mindfulness helps individuals become more present and gain control over their thoughts and emotions. Listeners will leave with a message of hope and inspiration that they too can overcome burnout with a little effort and find joy in life again.
Episode #48: How To Cope with Hard Times (Part 2)
In this second part of the series, Dr. Prianca talks about her upcoming first anniversary and how her podcast tackles topics that are only sometimes discussed, especially for high-achieving, exhausted women dealing with burnout. With insights on making peace with what's happening, taking control of our thoughts, seeking support, and practicing self-compassion, Dr. Naik emphasizes that while we can't control what happens to us, we can always control how we respond to it. So, join us today as we learn how to cope with tough times, emerge stronger, and become more resilient.
Episode #47: How To Cope with Hard Times (Part 1)
In this episode, Dr. Prianca talks about categorizing and acknowledging anything takes away its sting and can allow us to see things more clearly. Acknowledging the struggle and type of struggle is one way to normalize our own struggles even if we feel alone.
Episode #46: End Perfectionism and Find Peace
In this episode, Dr. Prianca talks about the dangers of perfectionism, which is a joy thief and a huge contributor to burnout and exhaustion. Dr. Prianca emphasizes that to truly find joy and balance, we have to burn down our old conditioning, stories, and narratives, and build up a new way of accepting our own mistakes and missteps because they are bound to happen. Let's learn to fight against perfectionism and live a life that's more peaceful and balanced!
Episode #45: Overcome Burnout With These Thoughts
In this episode, get ready to learn how to banish burnout! Dr. Prianca shares her favorite mantras and quotes that have helped her in life and encourages listeners to adopt these sayings to find balance and stability. You are enough! You are doing a great job! Everything is figure-out-able. Listen in and learn more.
Episode #44: Perspective Shifts in Overcoming Burnout
In this episode, Dr. Prianca talks about the importance of perspective and how it can help high-achieving moms overcome burnout. She shares her experiences and offers practical tips for shifting your perspective, including two specific lenses you can use in your day-to-day life. The first lens is your 80-year-old self. Ask yourself what your 80-year-old would do or say about any situation. This can provide perspective and maturity and help you prioritize what truly matters.
Episode #43: How To Have Better Boundaries
Boundaries are essential for maintaining physical and mental safety and are necessary for the human experience. You can create your own boundaries and live in alignment by saying “NO”, not taking on too much work, and not people-pleasing. But it's also essential to consider your mental safety and pay attention to situations that make you feel uncomfortable. In this episode, we'll discuss handling situations where you don't feel safe emotionally and give tips on creating boundaries.
Episode #42: Urgency Creates Clarity for a Better Life
Today, Prianca talks about death and how we often live as though we have forever to do what we dream of. However, life is too precious to waste time on jobs we hate, relationships that make us miserable, or anything that steals our joy. Priyanka shares some thought-provoking questions to help us get in touch with living in alignment with who we are and who we want to be.
Episode #41: How Change Can End Burnout
Welcome to the Empowering Working Moms Podcast with Dr. Prianca Naik! In this episode, Dr. Prianca talks about change and its critical part of the coaching process. She explains that humans crave stability and routine, which can lead to feeling stuck in a rut. However, change is the only constant in life, and it's necessary to transform ourselves and create different results.
Episode #40: Create Joy Always By being You
In today's episode, she talks about the importance of being a human being outside of being a mom and checking off your bucket list. Do you remember who you were before becoming a mother? It's time to get reacquainted with that person and enjoy hobbies and activities outside of being a mom. But beware of the conditioning that we need to be productive always and that having too much fun is not okay. There is no rulebook on how much fun you can have, and it's up to each person to determine how much fun they need to feel fulfilled.
Episode #39: Manage Your Mind to Feel Better
"Stand guard to the door of your mind.” Mindset gets thrown around in coaching because it is a key to experiencing life with intention. Most people are not happy. Many of them are depressed. Not enjoying life. So doing things the way everyone else does them makes no sense. In order to find inner peace and fulfillment and enjoy every day you must have the intention and implement processes.
Episode #38: How to Achieve Inner Peace and Happiness
Breathe easy with Dr. Prianca Naik in the Empowering Working Moms Podcast! In this must-listen-to episode, Dr. Naik shares her personal journey and the power of mindfulness meditation in finding inner peace as a working mom. Say goodbye to stress and sleep deprivation as she teaches you how to use the breath as an anchor for stability and presence.
Episode #37: How to Deal with To-Do Lists
The never-ending to-do list is the bane of many working moms’ existence. It can cause a lot of suffering if you let it. In this episode of Empowering Working Moms Podcast Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she shares that accepting that it is never-ending is critical to make peace with it. She discusses that categorizing, compartmentalizing, and taking a break are the three most important things a mom can do to win over these to-do lists. She also shares steps to take not to be overtaken by these.
Episode #36: How to manage unexpected stress for moms
Stress and anxiety are the things that plague working moms. Often, they try to control the circumstances through various planning to get control of their lives and feel that sense of stability. In this episode of Empowering Working Moms Podcast Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she shares that it is futile to attempt to control circumstances because life is constantly throwing curveballs. The key is accepting that the universe continually likes to laugh at us and that our plans and control are ineffective. She shares some strategies that create a sense of calm and centeredness when things go awry.
Episode #35: Help For Stressed Moms: Finding Joy
As working moms, it is so easy to feel overwhelmed by the day-to-day duties of motherhood. Along the way, we lose the magic and forget how to have fun. In this episode, Dr. Prianca Naik shares a lot of tips on how we could find joy even with the heavy tasks that we face each day.
Episode #34: How To Make More Time With Your Kids
As a working mom, do you constantly feel guilty about not being able to spend more time with your kids? Mom guilt is a perennial feeling within every mom, and one thing that adds to it is the issue of not being able to spend more time with kids. In this episode of Empowering Women's Podcast Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she shares that according to a longitudinal study of parent time, published in April 2015 in the Journal of Marriage and Family, the amount of time parents spend with their kids has minimal bearing on how children turn out.
Episode #33: Live Out Your Dreams By Living for You
Society, cultures, organized religion, and other factors dictate our sense of what’s acceptable or normal. Because of this, we often involve ourselves with things based on the norm. In our profession, for example, we pursue careers that people highly regard, neglecting what we want to do and who we want to be. Join Dr. Prianca Naik in this episode as she uncovers the root cause of this circumstance, employs strategies to break free, and creates the life envisioned in real life.
Episode #32: The Best Way to Deal With Grief
Common in many middle-aged women is feeling sad over the lack of what we thought would be, a mismatch of the picture-perfect life. Yet, many women feel guilty for grieving over such matters, which adds a layer of suffering in thinking we shouldn’t ever have negative feelings like grief. Join Dr. Prianca Naik in this episode as she opens the space for women to grieve over various things, even the most trivial ones. She shares that allowing yourself to grieve will help you move past it much more quickly and acquire satisfying happy lives.
Episode #31: Ways To Not Feel Lonely For Working Moms
Many of us have been taught to strive for excellence, achieve a good life, and be picture-perfect. However, this need can be exhausting and isolating for us. In this episode of Empowering Working Moms: Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she talks about the reality of retreating and feeling alone when we go through something that reveals our lack of perfection. She shares ways to overcome loneliness and come out of it victorious and complete.
Episode #30: How To Be A Happy Working Mom Through Pattern Recognition
Deeply ingrained habits and patterns can be traced back to childhood experiences even before remembering them. Some of them are helpful, while others add a layer of stress and anxiety to what one is already dealing with. In this episode of Empowering Working Moms:Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she dives into increasing your awareness of destructive mental patterns to help decrease your suffering and be relieved of exhaustion.
Episode #29: Reduce Burnt out at Work and Life Through More Time and Space
Workload sometimes piles up, and our to-do list never seems to end. Factor in several household duties that also needs attending. Before being burnt out, there are some things one can do to avoid going down that path. One is creating more time and space for yourself. To learn more about what this means and how to create one…
Episode #28: How to Stop Perfectionism
Perfectionism is a disease of overachieving women. Good grades may have been a product of perfectionism, but in the long run, it can cause life dissatisfaction, unhappiness, feelings of unworthiness, and in extreme cases, depression and anxiety. So how do we avoid the pitfalls of perfectionism?
Episode #27: Living in the Win
Most of us constantly try to see what needs to be fixed all the time, and we often neglect the wins we have daily. In this episode of Empowering Working Moms Podcast – Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she paved the way towards living a celebratory life.
Episode #26: How to Manage “Overwhelm”
With the various hats a woman wears daily, it is unavoidable that things can come up all at once. Dealing with these things could be overwhelming. So, what is the best thing to do when you feel overwhelmed?
Episode #25: Healthy Ways to Deal with Frustration and Anger
In this episode of Empowering Working Moms Podcast – Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, she dove into the factuality of how the past culture, the culture that the moms of this time grew up, invalidates feelings of anger. Proper conduct and behaving properly were the norm before. But presently, the expression of anger is encouraged for healthy well-being. With this transition, some moms are still finding their way on how to tread this path. Make sure to tune in to this episode to learn more about anger, expressing it, and dealing with it.
Episode #24: How to Decrease Your Stress Level by Giving Yourself Grace
Learning how to be gentle and giving ourselves grace is a key to lightening our mental load and decreasing stress.
Let's understand our perfectionistic tendencies and decide to accept B+ work.
Episode #23: How to Manage Sadness to Move Past Exhaustion and Find Peace and Happiness
In this episode, you will learn how to accept pain as a part of life, simplify your life during difficult times, and tips to cope when things get hard
Episode #22: Boundaries for Healthy Relationships and Dealing with an Alcoholic Spouse
In the final episode of the three-part alcohol-related series of Empowering Working Moms Podcast – Real Talk with Dr. Prianca Naik, Dr. Prianca talks about setting up healthy boundaries to help deal with and live with an alcoholic spouse. Boundaries are anchored in the concept of self-love – drawing lines to love, honor, and protect ourselves.
Episode #21: How To Deal with An Alcoholic Spouse By Ditching Codependence
This is the second part of a three-part series on living with someone who is an alcoholic. A physician and a certified professional coach, Dr. Prianca brings to light issues many women are facing but do not want to discuss openly. In this episode, she talks about the role of codependence in living with an alcoholic and how to manage it.
Episode #20: Living With an Alcoholic Spouse
If you’ve never had alcoholism in your family and you find out that your spouse has been hiding drinking from you it may be difficult to discern.
Episode #19: Tips to be More Patient
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My process helps professional moms with the seemingly perfect life who are silently suffering on the inside to know that they're not alone and that they reclaim their confidence and power to have the life they want even if that feels impossible right now.
Episode #18: Extinguish Emotional Exhaustion Through Not Worrying About What Other People Think
Even in her 30s, Dr. Prianca admits to still seeking her parents' approval. As she reflects on her own experience, Dr. Prianca explains how growing up as a people pleaser will leave you emotionally exhausted. She explains why social media is fake, why looking inward is essential, and how to sit well with other people's disapproval.
Episode #17: How to Move Forward When How You Were Raised Conflicts With Your Current Values
Dr. Prianca shares how she once worked with a client suffering from an abusive marriage, only to slowly work their way into realizing that the real issue is with the client's dysfunctional upbringing. Ultimately, she explains how one can normalize going against taboos, beliefs, and programming that make life miserable.
Episode #16: How to Deal With a Narcissist: Understanding and Tips
In this episode, you'll learn the signs of narcissism and how to deal with it.
Episode #15: Healing Mental Exhaustion Through Self-Forgiveness
Is self-care the antidote to generally every difficulty, stress, and struggle? For Dr. Prianca—it’s not. To be at peace with our efforts and to cultivate a healthy approach to anything we do in life, Dr. Prianca explains why self-forgiveness must be learned. She explains why self-forgiveness is a practice and how you can do it in practical applications.
Episode #14: Moving through Divorce and Beyond with Dr. Sari Green
Dr. Sari Green shares with Dr. Prianca what it felt like to suddenly be left alone in a journey that you started with someone. After discovering her husband’s double life and divorce, Dr. Sari didn’t have much choice to choose but to continue with her life as a single mother and physician. She shares her two cents on post-divorce identity shifts, the pressure of perfection on career women, and the beautiful side of the dismantling effects of divorce on a person’s life.
Episode #13: How to Feel Better: Tools for Dealing with Anger, Sadness, and Grief
If you are feeling stuck are a professional mom with the seemingly perfect life but you’re silently suffering on the inside, in survival mode and you’ve tried self-help, self-care, therapy, spinning on your Peloton and feel like this isn’t helping you getting you to where you want to be
Episode #12: Self-Love in Divorce: You're Not Alone
Dr. Prianca welcomes the podcast's first-ever guest to talk about a challenging topic to discuss—divorce. In Dr. Maneesha Ahluwalia's own divorce experience, she learned that it's normal to feel like a failure or that you failed the relationship. What happens after you entertain these thoughts is the crucial part. Dr. Maneesha explains where a divorce begins, why she's not afraid to share her 'whole' story, what she discovered possible in her post-divorce journey, and more.
Episode #11: Practicing Self-Love for Inner Peace
Today I want to talk about self-love because it is a tenet of peace, freedom, confidence and happiness. Without it you can’t properly love others either or demonstrate healthy relationships to your children.
Episode #10: Peace and Freedom through Catastrophization Management
Dr. Prianca reflects back on an old journal entry from the early days of the pandemic. In this entry, we see how catastrophization can deplete and exhaust us. Despite catastrophization being a natural defense mechanism, Dr. Prianca explains why it's a total waste of brain space, the common examples of how working moms catastrophize, and mindfulness as a catastrophization tool.
Episode #9: Gratitude Practice For Happiness
From being a natural pessimist, Dr. Prianca learned to embrace optimism in a way that shifted her perspective. She is anti-toxic positivity. You, too, can begin your own gratitude practice and see its effect on your life over time.
What you will learn:
How gratitude can change your life
Episode #8: Fearing Forward: How To Face Your Fears
Because our brains are designed to protect us, we're often wary of change. Dr. Prianca talks about fearing forward in facing our fears to thrive.
What you will learn:
Why fear is so deeply ingrained in us
Episode #7: How to Stop Feeling Like a Failure
Dr. Prianca recalls how an undergrad instructor once told her that she might not get into med school. But eventually, she proved him wrong. With focus and a change of mindset, she was able to achieve the seemingly unachievable. Dr. Prianca shares how that experience changed her perspective on failure.
Episode #6: Get Happier With Mindfulness
Full time working and parenting for the first time was a huge adjustment for Dr. Prianca. Mindfulness became a key component of her wellness routine. Beyond that, it really helped her to live her happiest, best life. Dr. Prianca defines mindfulness, explains how to get started, and its power in living a fulfilled and happy life.
Episode #5: Clean Decisions: Say No To Mind Drama And Spinning
Most of the time, especially for professional moms, the experience of brainado comes naturally. Brainado is a word coined by combining the word brain and tornado, so it's self-explanatory. But how can you clear up your mind and make more room for clean decision-making? Dr. Prianca explains how you can make the clean decisions, see decision-making as a form of freedom, and live a life with intention.
Episode #4: Stop People-Pleasing and Get Happy!
As a recovering 'yes' person, Dr. Prianca opens up about her own story and people-pleasing and how it affected her as a child, and later on as a parent. People-pleasing forces us to focus on what others think instead of ourselves. Dr. Prianca explains how you can move away from people-pleasing and the lessons you'll learn along the way as you give heed more to yourself.
Episode #3: How to Get Rid Of Mental Exhaustion
So many things in our daily lives today can lead to feelings of overwhelm and exhaustion.
Here, Dr. Prianca discusses the most common factors contributing to these feelings and their antidotes.
Episode #2: How to Get Motivated and Unstuck
Dr. Prianca speaks from her experience as a physician, coach, and mother.
In this episode you will learn:
The importance of aligning goals and values What about goals gets you stuck The purpose of stepping into your identity. See more…
Episode #1: Your Dream Life Starts with Intention
In the first podcast episode, Dhe dr. Prianca opens tiscussion on how self-awareness is key in achieving goals and fighting off stagnation. All of us have probably already felt stuck at some point. But do you know what being stuck reveals about our goals? Dr. Prianca explains how you can tell if a goal is worth pursuing or not and the tricks that will help you achieve what you want to achieve. See more…
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