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Common doesn’t mean normal.

If you’re navigating postpartum recovery—leaking, pain, pressure, or feeling disconnected from your body—this episode is for you.

Rachael talks with Dr. Jessica Hund (pelvic floor PT, founder of The Floor PDX) about why the 6-week clearance isn’t a real healing plan, why Kegels aren’t always the answer, and how to advocate for pelvic floor care that feels safe and trauma-informed.

🎧 Full episode coming soon on Rooted Exchange.
💬 What's one postpartum symptom you wish someone warned you about?

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So much of motherhood isn’t loud.
It doesn’t show up on to-do lists.
And it rarely gets named out loud.

In this episode of Rooted Exchange, Rachael sits down with Whitney Mayer for a candid, lived-experience conversation about the invisible load — the constant mental tracking, anticipating, remembering, and emotional labor that so many women carry quietly every day.

Together, they unpack how the invisible load shows up in real life: in grocery lists and appointment scheduling, in solo parenting and uneven rhythms, in identity shifts, guilt, and the pressure to “do it all” without dropping the ball.

This isn’t a conversation about blame or fixing partners. It’s about naming the work, understanding its weight, and offering ourselves more grace in the middle of it. In this episode, we explore:

• What the “invisible load” actually looks like day to day
• How motherhood reshapes identity — often quietly and unevenly
• The difference between being productive and feeling productive
• The double bind of stay-at-home vs. working motherhood
• Why comparison and perfectionism make the load heavier
• Letting go of control, lowering expectations, and choosing presence
• Why exhaustion isn’t always something sleep can fix

This conversation is for the mom who feels tired in a way that’s hard to explain. For the one carrying the household in her head. For anyone who has ever thought, “Why does this feel so heavy?”

You’re not imagining it. And you’re not alone.

We are taught to seek healing in products and distractions, but true peace may require stripping everything away to face the silence we fear most. We are exploring the difference between "faking it" and the deep alchemy required to actually become it. Find out what happens when you stop running from the discomfort and realize that you are your own medicine.

It starts with the small things: remembering the toothpaste, anticipating the snack request, and constantly scanning the room for what could go wrong. It is the work that has no job description, but it shapes our entire lives.

In this upcoming episode of Rooted Exchange, Rachael sits down with Whitney Mayer, a veteran turned stay-at-home mom, to unpack the weight of the Invisible Load.

Here is a peek at what we are discussing:

• The Chaos: Why trying to stay productive with a toddler feels like "eating soup with a fork".

• The Identity Shift: The jarring moment of looking in the mirror and asking, "Who is she?".

• The Control Trap: Why it feels physically impossible to trust anyone else with our children.

• The CEO Mindset: Treating the home like a business where you never get to clock out.

This is a conversation for any mother who feels like she is doing everything and nothing all at the same time.

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What if you didn’t need to have it all figured out to belong?

This is the beginning of Rooted Exchange, not a polished origin story, but a quiet one. Recorded in a lived-in home with laundry humming and toys on the floor, this episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe, and remember yourself.

In this opening conversation, Rachael shares the seed of why Rooted Exchange exists: a lifetime of listening, adapting, and learning how to take up just enough space, and the moment motherhood made that impossible to keep doing.

This episode is for anyone in a season of becoming.
For anyone who feels something shifting, even without the words yet.
For those who have carried more than anyone realizes, quietly.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

What happens when you’ve learned to read the room but forgotten how to belong to yourself. How motherhood (and life transitions) don’t create our voice, they reveal it. Why we were never meant to carry everything alone. The power of shared care, shared stories, and being witnessed in our becoming. What it means to come home to the body you live in.

Rooted Exchange is not about self-improvement, performance, or arriving somewhere polished. It’s a space for quiet truths, honest questions, and shared humanity — for remembering who we are beneath the roles we carry.

You don’t need the answers to be here.
This is the village we build through story.

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