83. Who Programmed Your Motherhood GPS?

About this episode

In this episode, Sarah Harmon discusses the Flourished Mother Map and how it relates to understanding and rerouting one's motherhood GPS.

It's my birthday week, and I'm out on the road celebrating with something special — opening up a limited number of Flourished Mother Map sessions to the wider community for the very first time. In this episode, I walk you through exactly what the Flourished Mother Map is, why it's the foundation of everything we do in the School of MOM, and introduce a metaphor that might just change how you see your patterns forever: your motherhood GPS. We explore who programmed it, where it's actually taking you — and how to reroute. Key Points What the Flourished Mother Map is and why women in Flourish consistently say it's worth the entire investment on its own The self-driving car metaphor: how most of us are being driven by unconscious programming we didn't choose and can't see Why having the right planner, system, or notebook will never get you to your destination if the GPS is programmed to go somewhere else One of the most common themes in Flourished Mother Maps: making time for ourselves and the beliefs that get in the way The "achieving first, rest later" programming so many high-functioning mothers carry — and what the updated belief system looks like Why we need support to make our…

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Harmon

Topics covered

• motherhood
• self-discovery
• personal growth
• unconscious programming
• self-care
• support systems

Keywords

• Flourished Mother Map
• motherhood GPS
• self-driving car metaphor
• unconscious programming
• self-care
• support
• belief systems

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