Chill Like a Mother Podcast
This show shares stories, offers tips and tricks, and provides education to help you feel more chill like the mother you know you want to be.
Hey! I'm Kayla Huszar, a creative counsellor who's all about unconventional therapy that encourages creativity, curiosity and finding what makes you feel alive (again). I've helped so many women navigate the waves (ups and downs) of motherhood, and I'm here for you, too!
So, if you're feeling overwhelmed or need a moment to yourself, grab your headphones and press play on an episode!
You're not alone, and you already know what you need.
Chill Like a Mother Podcast
A Meditation for Moms: When You're Not Fine But Keep Saying You Are
Tired of saying "I'm fine" when your body and brain are screaming for honesty? This guided meditation helps overwhelmed mothers stop pretending and start feeling—without forcing a fix.
What You'll Get: A 7-minute practice that meets you where you are: angry, sad, touched out, or completely empty. We start with breath work and body scanning, then move into five practical tools that turn emotional awareness into compassionate action.
The Meditation for Moms:
- Settle into ordinary breath and scan tension hotspots (shoulders, jaw, belly)
- Learn grounding techniques you can use anywhere when big emotions surge
- Practice allowing feelings to exist without liking them
- Release micro-clenches that quietly drain your energy
Five Coping Tools for When You're Not Fine:
- Write an emotional weather report to name what's happening inside
- Give yourself permission to take one humane next step
- Create an anger list—cross out what you can't control, circle what you can
- Name what's true right now to cut through noise and identify real needs
- Validate yourself with "it makes sense that I feel..." to loosen shame
Instead of toxic positivity or "cherish every moment," this episode offers real tools for maternal mental health. You'll leave with language, structure, and relief.
For mothers ready to:
- Stop saying "fine" when they're drowning
- Process difficult emotions without judgment
- Find practical coping strategies for mom burnout
- Access guided meditation designed specifically for overwhelmed parents
If you're in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, or New Brunswick and want one-to-one support, reach out. Follow the show and share with a friend who needs gentleness today.
What part of motherhood are you done calling "fine"?
Meet Kayla Huszar, the Host of the Chill Like a Mother Podcast
Kayla Huszar is a Registered Social Worker and Expressive Arts Therapist who helps mothers reconnect with their authentic selves through embodied art-making. She encourages moms to embrace the messy, beautiful realities of their unique motherhood journeys. Whether through the podcast, 1:1 sessions or her signature Motherload Membership, Kayla creates a brave space for mothers to explore their identities beyond parenting, reconnect with their intuition, and find creative outlets for emotional expression and self-discovery.
Thank you for letting me be a part of your day—kids running amok and all! If this episode helped you feel a little more chill, please leave a rating or review. Your feedback helps the podcast reach more moms who need to hear it.
Welcome back to the Chillaga Mother podcast. Today I'm going to walk you through a meditation practice for moms who are tired of being, quote, fine. If you can, find a quiet space. Yes, even the bathroom floor counts, or your closet. And let's practice the radical act of not being fine. And so sit however feels comfortable, close your eyes, or soften your gaze. Take three normal breaths, not deep, not yoga breaths, just regular human breath. How am I really doing right now? Not how you should be doing, not how you want to be doing. How are you actually right now? Notice where you feel tension, tiredness, or emotion in your body. Maybe it's your shoulders carrying the world's problems. Maybe it's your chest holding back words you just can't say. Maybe it's your jaw from smiling when you really don't feel like it. Don't try to fix these sensations. Just notice them. See and witness the parts of yourself that are not fine. If you feel an overwhelming sense of sensory information, please take a moment to ground yourself, whatever way that looks like. If it feels too uncomfortable to sit with these parts of yourself, you can open your eyes, squeeze your hands, push your feet into the ground. Whatever emotions happen to be present right now. Anger, sadness, overwhelm, emptiness. Imagine making space for them to be here. It doesn't have to be comfortable. In fact, it's probably not comfortable. You don't have to like them. They don't have to be here forever. But right now, you're allowing them to exist. Notice any resistance or obstacles or barriers that come up when you imagine yourself leaning in to these feelings, leaning in to being fine. As you lean towards make space and pay attention to how am I? How am I really? Detach them from your ears. Maybe you need to unclench your belly or your toes. Maybe it feels helpful to remove your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Unclench your jaw. Try to approach those things with a non-judgmental attitude. We're not fixing or changing anything. We are just being present and honest about your human experience. Can you feel a little bit of space being created? Maybe an exhale of relief. Maybe a surrendering into it's okay to not be fine. Not being fine doesn't make me ungrateful or broken. It makes me human. You can take a few more deep breaths, staying with the sensations or the visual, or the feeling you have for as long as you need. You can linger here for a while if that's what you need. And when you're ready, you can open your eyes and transition back into whatever the rest of your day or your evening might look like. A lot of what people share with me is it's not the not being fine they have a hard time grappling with. It's the what do I do with it? They're very aware that they're not fine, but what do they do about it? So if you're so inclined, I'm going to offer you five different alternatives to some of that. Just cherish every moment or forced gratitude, toxic positivity that moms are a lot of the time on the receiving end of. And so instead of just cherishing every moment or judging yourself for not cherishing every moment, you could journal out a bit of your emotional weather report. Today, my internal weather is dot dot dot. You can finish that sentence either via writing or just follow whatever thought you just had. You could also use the sentence, I give myself permission to, dot dot dot. And just allow whatever comes up to be there. The third option, which is one of my favorites, which is to write down everything that is making you mad, irritated, annoyed, absolutely everything. When you've finished writing your list, which may be quite lengthy or it may be quite short, you cross off the ones that you can't control and highlight or circle the ones that you can, and decide what you'd like to do about it. The fourth, what's true right now is dot dot dot. The fifth is it makes sense that I feel. And it is the first step to healing and self-kindness. If you'd like some additional support and you find yourself not okay, I'm currently accepting new clients. I work with moms and women in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Please reach out to me if you need anything. And if you feel so inclined, share with me about what part of being a mom are you tired of saying is fine. You can message me on Instagram, you can email me, you can text me however you'd like to do that. Take care, and I'll see you again next week.
