What Motherhood Is Really Teaching You About Yourself with Carly Ely

They say motherhood changes you but what they don’t tell you is that it reveals you.

Every trigger, every tantrum, every moment you snap and feel guilt bubbling under your skin. It will hold up a mirror to the parts of you you’ve spent years avoiding.

The parts that feel tender, reactive, and raw.

And that’s exactly what this week’s episode is all about. I sat down with Carly Ely, and we cracked open the truth about what motherhood is really asking of us. Not the Pinterest-perfect version but the real, soul-stretching journey of learning how to parent while still discovering who you are.

If you've ever wondered why motherhood feels like a spiritual awakening (but no one gave you a guidebook for it), you're going to feel so seen in this conversation.

We Also Talked About:

• The way triggers point to unhealed parts of you and have nothing to do with your child’s behavior

• Why your worth has nothing to do with how well your child performs

• The grief that hits when you realize time is moving way too fast

• How motherhood becomes the mirror for your own emotional growth

• What it actually means to break generational cycles (without perfection)

• The shift from control to connection and how to let your guard down

• The quiet shame we carry and how self-compassion sets us free
  
  

This Episode Is for You If You’ve Ever…

✔ Felt like motherhood was asking you to do deep inner work (but didn’t know where to start)
✔ Needed a reminder that growth and grace can coexist
✔ Been trying to break cycles without burning out
✔Felt like your kids were showing you what you still needed to heal
✔ Struggled with shame and wondered if you were the only one

This conversation will validate your journey, soften your shame, and remind you that you’re not alone in the messy middle.

Meet Carly

Carly Ely is a conscious motherhood coach, subconscious reprogramming expert, and neurodivergent mom of two. She combines her background as a school psychologist along with her training and study of the reparenting and spirituality to guide women through the process of healing and rediscovering themselves in motherhood.